Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Starting off good in 2008

Idea for Per period time limits/timeframe.

Period schedule 55 minutes

35 work
20 teacher-led discussion

7 - opening and closing

Opening activity: Textbook-provided 5 minute review
This is Kept in student notebook and student's neighbor checks work

Teacher-produced enrichment activity: Critical Thinking skills, Working on Puzzles
(for the two later activities, it may take more than 5 miuntes, therefore, extended
days could be allowed for these activities;

The student must list the work they did on a teacher-produced worksheet

Per topic - 5 minutes in motivating and introducing the lesson
5 minutes Guided instruction
5 minutes - check for understanding
10-15 minutes - student work on the topic

Repeat for second topic

Closing activity:

Ticket out activity
Journal entry

At 4 minutes: all work has been collected
all floors are clean
all textbooks are placed in their proper locations
all students are in their seats

A final review of what occurred in class has begun closes the class