I was straight forward again today, but instead of vocabulary I showed clips of videos that related to the upcoming chapter. Unsurprisingly, many asked to watch the whole movie. Mr. Siler doesn't go for that sort of thing. Also 4th period is a challenge. Five students or so left for track and overall, the class seems either over or underwhelmed with the book. (Sigh.)
I have a seminar tomorrow. My mentor teachers will teach short stories or something. Monday through Thursday will be interesting because Friday is spring break. Ideally, I'd be at the half way point of the book by then, but that isn't going to happen. This weekend is all about coming up with the perfect strategy. The next few chapters are fairly episodic. Ideally, I could devise a series of assignments appealing to different learning styles from which the students could choose and work on until presentation day on Wednesday/Thursday. I could video tape this and look awesome while keeping everyone up to speed on the story. Yes. Let's do that.
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Off topic, hey whatever happened to Rare? Did they get bought by a differnt developer or absorbed by like EA or soemthing? I miss Rare.
ReplyDeleteIntersting idea on videotaping yourself. I wonder- would it "fly" to videotape your lessons ahead of time? You could play a video of yoruself teaching so the lesson stays consitant from class to class. Then you take questions after the video of yourself and still give that individual teaching experience that you would want form a flesh and blod teacher that a video cant do. Is this a thing?
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