Welcome to week 8 of our Fall 2024 16 Week Teaching Challenge!
If you're new to the challenge, take a minute and read The Big Launch post here. You can opt to get caught up on previous weeks by checking out the "16 Week Challenge" link to the bottom right of this page, or you're welcome to just jump right in and join us!
Week 8: Sept. 30 - Practice Fostering a Culture of Grappling
The challenge is to put into practice what you learned last week by planning for fostering a culture of grappling in 3 upcoming lessons. (And feel free to revisit last week's post if you need a refresh on how to do that.)
What does this look like? For each lesson, you'll:
- Internalize the lesson. Be sure to identify its purpose, the heart, the student work that aligns with the purpose, and how independently that work is supposed to be done.
- Identify at least 1 place where you know it could be tempting as a teacher to take away the grappling for students. Maybe this is releasing the note-catcher to pairs to truly do it on their own, while you just circulate and question. Maybe this is releasing the reading to triads as designed in the lesson, instead of reading aloud this time. Maybe this is co-creating an anchor chart with students' ideas, rather than pre-creating it. Or maybe it's posing the questions - even the really hard ones - exactly as designed, without scaffolding the language in them.
- Capture notes at the end of each lesson on how this went.
- Did you use your technique to foster a culture of grappling?
- What did you learn about your students and their work?
- What did you learn about your instruction?
Completed that? Fantastic! You just completed your Week 8 Teaching Challenge. If you're working for that small prize, you can log your success here, and be sure to check back after Fall Break - October 14 - for Week 9.
Here's to simply teaching well,
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