So... we are one month into my data collection plan.
Things are going ok. I intended to have my students do an inquiry and/or collabrative lesson and complete a survey once a week and I have been! Whoo-hoo! To me the survey after does not seem nearly as important as the learning and team-work I am seeing in my room. Students are helping each other more and certainly helping and challenging themselves more in a team then they would individually.
I have a para collecting data on the number of questions that I am asking students once a week as well. Again... the numbers are the numbers, but I feel so much more prepared and informed on questioning that I much more often sitting down and before and after lessons writing, re-writing, and creating questions. Its really causing me to make connections between concepts and these connections "show up" in my lessons.
Its weird. Cells are still cells and the facts are the facts... but once you start connecting the dots... simply put... it gets easier to see things! I'm surprised... floored actually. The time I am spending, the attention I am paying, to creating questions for my students is helping me! Maybe even more then the students.
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