Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Modeling with students


This concept map shows the goals for a lesson on creating a friendly letter in a 2nd grade classroom. For each step, the student is asked to take the idea of a friendly letter one step forward. The idea of student modeling is new to me-I always have goals for my students, but asking them to model their own thinking is still somewhat tricky to get my head around. I am normally the one doing the modeling. It will be interesting to see what the students take out of this lesson as compared to the way I have taught it in the past.

1 comments:

megfritzphd said...

YOur students are so young that you'll still need to do some modeling for them (maybe guide them) as they model their thinking, right?