Tom, Patria, and I met after school today. We wanted to work out what we would say in our written proposal for our study. We decided to keep it to a simple paragraph or three explaining our intentions (and hopes) for our three areas of concentration, Think Aloud, CRISS Strategies, and Physical Reading Exercises.
We also noted similarities in our upcoming Midterm Tests, especially on the Think Aloud methods we all used on Poe's "The Black Cat." We had all used a pretest devised by Tom. Now we will test our student's comprehension on next week's test.We expect that they will perform better on this story than on other test items.
Ms. Alcantara has been searching for studies that show that a small amount of physical exercise before class, or in class, can improve outcomes. I found two web items that encourage this:
BPS Research
The Innovation Unit
It appears that we're a ittle late with a written proposal, but we'll surely turn it in this week.
3 comments:
I had to do a double-take when I saw the name David Reynolds in the article.
Many people don't realize how much the brain is stimulated by physical actions. Even simple moments can cause quite a stir.
This also might help support Gardner's idea of multiple intelligences.
Intelligent comment and I love your avatar.
I thought we had a very good meeting yesterday. It's good just to get together and share ideas about what we're doing in class now and might like to do later.I always look forward to doing James Joyce who Hemingway referred to him as "the greatest writer who ever lived". At present were reading "Dracula" and either "The Sisters" or "Araby" will be a great texts to read side-by-side. Joyce has some of the same darkness and gloom (albeit not "horror"),but adds deep and subtle traits of character development that are not in the more abstract "Dracula".The think-aloud reading strategies we've been using for "Dracula" will work well with Joyce too.
Tom
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