the best classroom change I made this year: ablerism.micro.blog

@ablerism Nice! I am bookmarking this.

@ablerism I started doing a version of the same thing in my PhD seminar and it seems like a winner.

@KyleEssary Yes indeed. @markstoneman, lmk if you take it up. Nice to hear @teedan’s experience is the same.

@teedan @ablerism What a great idea. It’s like the classroom version of making yourself write out a brief summary of each chapter you read as you make your way through a book.

@joshuapsteele @teedan Yes! I never cease needing to find more ways to make tacitly held teacher values into explicit classroom structures.

@teedan @ablerism I have been thinking along these lines! Two weeks ago I walked into class to see one of my students writing on the whiteboard while others made suggestions. They were anticipating a difficult reading quiz and crowdsourcing possible questions and answers. I thought “I should figure out a way to incorporate this kind of thing.” Sara, do you assign the recappers in advance? I wonder whether that would be best — or asking someone at random and encouraging others to help.

@ablerism amazing! I’m doing this immediately when we get back from fall break next week.

@ayjay I assigned ahead of time. We have a monster 3.5 hours once a week, so I want them paying attention in the prior week and organizing their thoughts before the recap moment. Could see it either way, though.

@lukemperez lmk how it goes!

@ayjay @ablerism I started with Christina Bieber Lake’s group-generated “top 5” items from the prior week and then tweaked it a bit for the 3.5 hour PhD seminar dynamic.

@teedan @ablerism Thanks, friends!

@teedan I worked with CBL this summer as coach; she’s the one who pointed me to the Lang book. Will report this exchange to her!