Since I had the difficulty of losing my student, and parent I was going to be working with I'm getting the wonderful opportunity to work with another student in my class (Allison) and her student Austin. We are going to have the first meeting today, so during class we took the time to plan out exactly what we have planned for our first meeting. We made the KWL chart for Austin to be ready to do right away, and Allison had already typed up the open-ended questions on GoogleDocs so I just took the time to add a couple more questions to the document. I'm very excited to get started and I'm going to enjoy the opportunity to get to work with someone else so we can both learn a lot from one another.
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We had our first meeting with Austin, and his Mom. And he was an extraordinarily smart young man. I started to feel as though, that I'm sure I could learn a lot from him about his project on Volcanoes. We started working on his VoiceThread right away as he gathered some pictures from offline. He was very anxious to get started, and just wanted to do everything himself!! As we started getting ready to record for his VoiceThread, we realized for some reason we couldn't get the sound to come out ...because it was recording but nothing was coming back when we would play it back. So we got started on his KWL chart and creating his blog for him.
16 years ago
Hey Alysha! I checked out your open-ended questions and I think you did a good job! I especially like the question: "How do volcanoes affect our past, present, and future?" This question really engages the student in higher level thinking about how volcanoes have affected us thoughout history. Great Job!
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