We're Rolling!

RECIPIENTS: Each of the Peer Review Group Blogs, and The Shared GPOC, Peer Reviewer, and Curator Workspaces

 

So far so good. I see bumpiness, but I'd have been LOOPY to imagine that wouldn't be the case. I'm mostly peeking around right now to see that everybody understands how this works.

As I mentioned to some of you, I resisted giving an example of a real lesson planning situation (opting instead for the moon-landing template, you have all been tortured with) because I didn't want to give the impression that I am advocating for a PARTICULAR teaching style, but I got enough comments on the goofiness of the moon-landing template so that I decided to cave and add an example of what a real lesson plan might look like (this link -- https://workflowy.com/shared/1b70b3fc-1e22-0b11-f0d8-2ced03f437fb/ -- will allow you to view that if you want). So now of course, people are starting to ask if I require that you teach the present perfect. NO! Well ... maybe. But that's not the point. It's just an example. I am going to find another example from amongst the lesson plans that you all are writing now, and post those inside that same list.

  Thanks to everyone for being patient with my shuffling the Groups around at the last minute -- just want to get everybody situated into the roles that are right for them, and make sure the mix of each Group is right.

This is going to be a lot of trying and adapting and trying again. I tried to get all the major changes to the Groups and the Roles over and done with before the semester starts, but I am sure that the tweaking will continue, and I am also hoping that I can get better at tweaking without people feeling tweaked.

Soon, I am going to start experimenting with the practice of focusing on a different combination of teachers each week, studying their lessons, understanding their situations, and perhaps asking some follow-up questions and giving feedback. I am hoping that this, plus school visits, plus treating folks to coffee ends up being the optimal arrangement (given how limited our resources are at the management level).

Already, just looking at this first week of documentation flowing in, I can feel my understanding of each assignment -- and how radically different they are from each other -- expanding and expanding. I mean, I have done my best to educate myself about you guys, in the past, but experiencing this in real time, like this, is awesome! a whole new ballgame maybe. Perhaps even world class.