LiterateLife

Lots of time to think while actively monitoring my students today during the test admin. How do workshop teachers structure their class so that students choose reading or writing each day? I have such a hard time creating structure! (Um, am I in the wrong career here????) Finding structures that work for me and that aren’t too complicated to maintain over a year have been elusive.

I have a 45 min block of time where I want my students to be authentic readers and writers. How do I structure that time for me to mentor them and for them to practice what they know?

 I need to re-visit In The Middle and get Linda Reif’s Seeking Diversity.

I also have to include AVID Strategies as our school is working toward being an AVID demonstration school.

Plus, I go to district inservices every year to show me how to improve student scores on identified weak objectives on state testing where I am given activities that might take one or more class periods to complete.

How does one take all of this and put it together?