Oct. 21, 2008

October 21, 2008
Today we went over the Reading Module for RSS ch. 5-6. We learned about talk moves,talk formats, and classroom talk and argument. Talk moves are things such as revoiceing, student restate, applying reasoning to other students reasoning, teacher prompting, and allowing time. These talk moves are ways to generate further discussion of ideas. Teachers do not always need to be the only voice heard in the classroom it should be a balance of teacher and student led discussion. We also talked about modeling, and learning progressions. We concluded class with the Leaping Egg activity. We put a ping pong ball in one cup and blew on it trying to jump it into another. We discussed why the ball flew the direction it did, based on where we blew, as well as the strength of the current.