Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Teach Like a Champion - Strategy 2 - Right is Right
The key idea for this strategy is to "set and defend a high standard of correctness in your classroom." They gave an example of a student giving an answer and the teacher telling the student he/she is correct, but adding information to make the answer correct. I do this by repeating the answer and adding something to the answer. This is called "rounding up" and the book states this is how we set a low standard for correctness. Ouch! Once I tell the student he/she is correct, he/she doesn't differentiate that it's only completely correct with the added information. This is a habit I'm going to break! Instead of rounding up, I can tell the student he/she is on the right track and see if they can finish answering it with some prompting or have somebody else in the class help them.
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Makes sense! A type of "wait time" where you give the student more time to think about and respond to the question. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteIT sounds like you are enjoying the book and finding lots of useful ideas. Do you have time somewhere in the schedule to discuss these ideas and what you are doing with them?
Do you think the students on your team would know it if several of you started using the same strategy...like the "rounding up" strategy you mentioned here? Would that strength the use of any one strategy?
I find it hard to not help out a student who wants to answer a question but is totally off the mark - since I want them all to feel successful. I like allowing kids to "piggyback" on someone's answer to offer more to the answer and kids see it as adding more details.
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