Progress+meeting+11.09.2010

Reflections, 11/9/2010

Questions that worked:


 * How is this helping you get better at writing an even better story?
 * How is the learning target helping you get better at solving story problems?
 * How is the learning target going to help you get better at reading?
 * How does this help you solve story problems?

Questions that didn't work so well:


 * How is this work helping you get better at (LT)?
 * How is this helping you get better at writing?

"Regurgitating" the learning targets or things we say -- that's okay for second graders because they have to be able to do that before they can do it on their own.

Should we be telling them how the learning target is helping them get better at something, instead of asking them to guess it?

Do we need to have clear lists for each subject, like we do for reading? "Good mathematicians..." and fill in what good mathematicians do.

Are we asking them how the work is helping them get better at the learning target? Or how the learning target is helping them get better at another target? (a higher level skill or a long-term target?)

Good mathematicians: visualize use the most efficient strategy they can double-check make sure they understand the problem

What kind of answers are we looking for?

For problem-solving process:

first few steps help you understand the problem later steps help you solve it efficiently and make it clear to an audience