[ola] Re: second day and question
- From: "rogers.dr" <rogersdr25@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:05:04 -0700
For the journals, we go by number, title & date (for ex: #10, Syria, 10/9).
They are responsible to write that on every entry (whether theres one or three
to a page) clearly & visibly so they can find it quickly. Circling the number
so it stood out helped even more!
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El sep 5, 2013, a las 10:16 a.m., JoAnna Coleman <joannac@xxxxxxx> escribió:
> 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/
>
> From: ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ola-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Jody
> 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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