During the conference there was a lot of videos shown where students talk about what they like about different teachers and different schools. I wrote down one quote. "A good teacher makes me feel confident." I thought that during advisory I would pose the question: "What do you think makes a good teacher?" to the students and have them respond using iMOVIE. I wonder if some other teachers could do it as well. We could edit responses together into a short clip and maybe view and discuss it during a PD.
At the fest, we interviewed a high school student. We asked her what she enjoyed about school, what made school difficult, her favorite subjects, etc. It turned out that all her classes had the teacher lecturing in front of the class except biology. During biology they sometimes worked in groups but even then the experiment was written out and they followed prescribed instructions. We were wanting all this information about whether she preferred to work certain ways (we came with our own ideas) but she could only reference what she knew. She liked test because she appreciated the quiet. This is true of many of my students as well. Lunch was her favorite part of the day though, from this you could possibly infer that she enjoyed socializing and maybe that should be including in learning. You think? It's hard not to feel defensive when your class is full of chattering students and someone walks in. Hey, some are on task. Maybe more than we think. Tomorrow I'll experiment with groups of four taking tests together. I'll just give one test per 4 people.
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