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Episode 83: Misconceptions About Self Pacing

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Teaching a Whole Group Lesson Is a Great Idea

i still do whole group every day, almost im asa, a whole group miny lesson. But it's only about five minutes, and i can make it very specific to the needs that i see of my students. And like you say, there's nothing proscriptive or or like setting stone about a modern class room. Just because we're our self paced model doesn't mean that you can't do that. That part of the self pacing, and i think it's also part of the learning right, to help the kids t really be as successful as they can on on the activities that they're doing.

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And you made a really great point at the end there, about a just a whole group re teaches, which is not something that i thought of in the context of this question, which, like, i was thinking more about those really very formalized, full class activities. But that's a great one, like, just in the moment. You don't have to do it at the end of class either. Like if i at the beginning of class, if my students are all working on the same thing, more or less, and a bunch of them are havi the same problem, i will actually stop the whole class and say, please close your computers. My schoolis one to one. They all have cron books. I'll, i'll pull their attention to the front, and i actually will deliver a very short little lecture to address the questions that lots of kids are asking me, like, you can totally do that. And like you say, there's nothing proscriptive or or like setting stone about a modern class room. Just because we're our self paced model doesn't mean that you can't do that. That part of the self pacing, and i think it's also part of the learning right, to help the kids t really be as successful as they can on on the activities that they're doing. Great
Speaker 3
points. Great points. Yea hunder, i agree with everything that john said. So i still do whole group every day, almost im asa, a whole group miny lesson. But it's only about five minutes, and i can make it very specific to the needs that i see of my students. Because the actual content that i'm delivering from my curriculum is happening in the vidios. So that's the first thing, is that i i still pretty much do a whole group lesson every day on the second thing that i've started doing in mass is incorporating a whole group hands on activity as an anchor activity at the beginning of every unit. So kind of a creative way to preview the concepts that we're going to be talking about, allow students to do some kind of more fun things. It's usually maybe art based or group based or something, just to get them thinking about the concepts that will be learning. And then i also will do a whole group am kind of games periodically throughout the unit. Um, my school is about a, has about 20 of students that speak a language other than english at home, and so vocabulary acquisition is something that my school is really focused on. And so i'll do a blukit or a gimkid or something like that regularly, i would say, at least every week, where we're using the vocabulary words from a unit in kind of a game base way, and everyone's doing that regardless of where they are in the unit. So those are some ways that i still incorporate whole group activities, even with the self pacing structure.
Speaker 1
Awesome.

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