Week 3-Class

Brian did a nice job getting people talking about conferences. I thought it was interesting and we actually all had a lot to say. We also discussed team teaching. I find team teaching to be difficult, but I like the idea. The basic plan is that the teachers involved have the same students. This means a sounding board for each other. If the teachers have a theme, say astronomy, that could be dealt with in fun ways. For example, science could cover the make up of the stars, social using them for navigation, English could read stories about constellations and ESL could work on vocabulary for all the subjects because they are going to overlap. I've taught in a class where we tried to fill in the gaps, as Bekir talked about, but the students didn't respond to the other teacher. It was a terrible mess and I'm hesitant to ever do that again.

At the end of class we were all discussing what the topic in our proposal meant. We never came to a real conclusion, so I'll post it in the discussion board.