[ola] second day and question
- From: JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:16:38 +0000
Today my students filled out a student information form that I do every year
(age, name, interests, how they did last year in Spanish, contact info, etc...)
- for Monday we are going to start talking about interests and likes/dislikes,
so I am pulling the info from their sheets as the vocabulary that we will be
learning :)
Question about the journal: if I am handing out some handouts (calendar, songs,
etc...) and kids are writing notes and homework in their journal on a daily
basis, how do you all keep things organized? I can't really number pages
because kids write bigger or smaller or more or less, do you number entries?
just go by date? I want them to be able to quickly find certain entries -
thanks!
JoAnna Coleman
Spanish Teacher
Wilson High School
503-916-5280 ext. 75231
joannac@xxxxxxx
http://profecoleman.wordpress.com/
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Soberon [JodySo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 7:57 AM
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] First day HELP! and awesomeness
Hi!
Yesterday was my first day of classes. Every class went as planned, was awesome
and responsive and then 7th period, a Spanish 2 class with 38 students, came
on. They were excessively chatty, in English. And there are about 8 students
who are the disruptive type and talk out in English a LOT, 3 of whom just
really don´t care. We only achieved half of what we did in all other classes
and got no vocab up, though we did in every other class. 5 were sent out of the
circle for a minute, 1 was sent out of the circle and then outside the class
for a minute twice!
So it looks like I am going to have to debrief TODAY with them and not during
English days/week. It can't wait. My thoughts:
-Have a discussion about trust and decency
-Talk about the effect of breaking out into English which switches the brain.
Somewhere I heard that research says that it takes 7-8 minutes to get back to
before the brain switch. Can someone hook me up with that research?
I also plan to go over consequences including what one of the members of my PLC
shared with me. It is a Debrief behavioral sheet that the student has to fill
out. I'm going to try this for students who have to leave the room for
disruptions or incesssant English. The doc itself is in English, but if I can
nip bad behavior in the bud in the beginning, the whole class will benefit.
(I've attached it for your perusal.
In other thoughts or comments? Thank you and happy OWLing,
Jody
Foreign Languages
Brookings Harbor High School
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