Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Our Thoughts on Chapter 3
Didn't get a chance to share your ideas and opinions during Monday's Socratic Seminar? Well, here's your chance to blog away your deepest thoughts and insights about Chapter 3. Here's what you do: choose an interesting quote or section from the chapter and then briefly explain your thoughts. Feel free to post strategies and tools that have helped students succeed. Have fun blogging!
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Here's the quote that I liked: "Students who demonstrate their unhappiness in obvious ways gain our immediate attention. In the meantime, the quietly despairing are overlooked, at least until they explode later" (Douglas et.al. 53). With 30-40 kids in our classrooms, it is easy to overlook the quiet kid who always seems tired and sad. At the end of the day, I often wonder what the kid is going through and make a mental note of checking in on him, but then of course, a million other things get in the way and I soon forget. Do any of you have a system of keeping tabs on kids who might be our "quietly despairing" students?
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ReplyDeleteI had written something about schoolwide commitment in the last page of the chapter.