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Time
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Phase
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Instructional Strategy
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Teacher does…
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Students do…
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1:33-1:52
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Opening
warm-up from lesson before
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Warm-up
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Presents
problem and goes around answering questions
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Work
on the given problems
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1:52-2:01
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Daily
quote and Estimation 180
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Warm-up/interaction
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Explains
motivational quote and guide Estimation 180
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Listen
and make guesses for the Estimation 180
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2:01-2:28
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Lesson
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Lecture
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Lectures
the students
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Take
notes on their handouts or in notebooks
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2:28-2:38
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Individual
Practice
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Hands-on
work
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Walks
around and helps out students
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Works
on examples on sheet
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2:39-2:55
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Answer
questions from the sheet of example problems
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Lecture
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Answers
questions and shows how to do problems
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Asks
questions and observe as the teacher solves the problems
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2:55-3:03
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Work-Time
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One thing that my CT isn't the best at, and he's told us this before, is his lack of time management. He says the activities that he plans out usually always take longer than he expects them to, so he never finishes his whole lesson that he has planned out for the day. Due to that he is usually behind the schedules of the other geometry teacher and has to cram in multiple sections into one class period. Usually the activities that is the culprits of taking up more time than he expected are the opening activity and/or the individual practice. He tries to get around to everybody that is struggling and helps them out, and in this class is there are plenty that fall under this category. Luckily Logan and I can kind of help him out with this so he doesn't have to take up as much time. Our CT also has a daily quote that he shares with the students and then they do the Estimation 180 (a website where the class estimates thing e.g. how sheets of paper are in a ream). I do like these activities that he does because he gets engaged with the students and it helps their thinking.
One thing I've noticed with our observation is to plan for more time than you need on things you for sure want to get done. Then if you get done early with what you want to get done, you can always go on and do something with the next lesson. When you are trying to catch up with the other teachers, I think that your teaching gets rushed and your'e not teaching at your best ability. I've seen that happen in my classroom and I don't think that it is good for either you or the students.
Is your CT a tenured teacher? Or is he/she rather new? It's interesting to keep hearing these stories about time management. I know I have had some issues with time management. It's a really tough thing to grasp and keep under control. Our warm-ups is where it starts for us as well. They usually take quite a bit more time than planned. Bonni and I have gotten much better at keeping the warm-up on schedule and finished at the planned time. Our class will start off with an activity we call 7's and then go straight into warm-ups. We try to have all this done within 7-8 minutes. If it runs past that we start to cut into class-time for homework. This experience has really opened my eyes up to the importance of keeping activities to the set time. One method our CT uses is a timer. This has proven to be a great tactic for keeping precise time.
ReplyDeleteConnor - Always good to plan for things to take longer than expected and have extra things to do if things go quicker than expected. I agree that trying to "cram things in" to get on the same schedule with others is likely not going to work too well. I wonder what the "typical" lecture portions contain and if you feel like all of this is warranted and how changing the structure might provide students with the kinds of opportunities you want in a more time-efficient way?
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