Lesson Day Feedback Provided How will you encourage students
1. State if it is oral or written and if it is written to use the feedback? Provide the day and what you wrote it on (i.e. rubric, rating Include: content scale, post it) 1. Type of concrete reminder 2. What you actually said related to the content 2. What the follow-up lesson would be Day 1: Science Oral feedback was provided to the entire class as At the end of this lesson, the they answered questions about living things and students were asked to draw a Tuesday their needs. While more varied feedback would picture of a living thing on their October 13, 2020 have been ideal, the restrictions of the learning white boards. All of the living things environment only allow for oral feedback to be that they drew were added to a given during the lesson. I tried to use questioning collage of living things. This was strategies and referred the students back to placed in the science section of the content information when they were confused. I student’s Bitmoji Classroom. The also made sure to give specific positive feedback students’ can refer to this image that when students answered correctly. they all contributed to so that they can view examples of living things. Student # 1- This child received solely oral In the actual classroom, this would feedback. He would benefit from receiving have been a tangible collage that concrete feedback, but the restrictions of the they all would have physically current learning environment only allow for oral contributed to using either drawings feedback to be given during the lesson. During or images from magazines. the lesson, I called on him during the Living v. Nonliving things word sort. He wrote the symbol The other YSU student in the to identify that a tree is a living thing. I asked classroom continued from my lesson him, “Why do you think a tree is a living thing?” by going more deeply into the needs He said, “Because it is alive and needs things.” of living and nonliving things. At To encourage him to expand upon those points, I the end of my lesson I said, “Now responded by directing him to the four questions remember all of the different living that help us determine if something is living. and nonliving things that we Once I asked him, “Well do tress grow over discussed today, because on Friday time?” He responded, “Oh yeah! They also need we will talk more about their needs the sun and water and air.” I responded by saying, with Ms. Scott.” “That is correct! I like how you referenced the other questions. Thank you for sharing.”
Student # 2- This child received oral feedback.
This is a mode of feedback that is effective for him. He was the last student that I asked to help with the picture sort, so he was able to listen to the responses from and feedback given to his peers prior to taking his turn. He identified on his board that an airplane is a nonliving thing. I asked him, “Why do you think that an airplane is a nonliving thing?” He said, “Airplanes do not grow and they don’t need food. They also don’t need water.” In response, I said, “You are completely correct. I like how you thought about the questions that we ask as scientists when deciding if something is a living or nonliving thing.” Lesson Day Feedback Provided How will you encourage students 1. State if it is oral or written and if it is written to use the feedback? Provide the day and what you wrote it on (i.e. rubric, rating Include: content scale, post it) 1. Type of concrete reminder 2. What you actually said related to the content 2. What the follow-up lesson would be Day 2: Social Studies/ The students were able to correctly answer most If we were in the classroom, I would Language Arts of the questions about the story and sort the have had all of the students pictures of teamwork. Verbal feedback was given contribute to a giant word splash Thursday to the students as they shared aloud. that all of the students could have October 15, 2020 contributed drawings and words Student #1- The students were asked, “What does depicting the key details of teams. a team look like?” This student was called on to This could have been hung on the share what he drew or wrote in response. He wall to remind everyone what a showed his picture and said, “The people are team looks like and the words working together to beat someone up.” I associated with teams. responded, “I like that you included those words ‘working together’ because that is what teams do, However, for this virtual setting, but it is kind to beat someone up?” The student easy-to-read audio/e-books and a responded, “No. I don’t think they should do video about teams were added to the that.” I said, “I do not think so either. So think of Bitmoji classroom in both the something kind that people can do together as a library and social studies sections. team. Thank you for sharing.” This was the final lesson for Student #2- He was absent during this lesson. teamwork and collaboration for this first nine weeks. The following Additional Student- During the picture sort, the lessons in social studies will be students had to say whether the image showed the about following rules, which the characters working as a team or not working as a other YSU teacher will begin in her team. This student was called on to explain his lesson. answer. The picture showed the characters arguing with each other. I asked, “So do you think they are working as a team in this picture or no?” He said, “Yes. They are working as a team.” I asked him why he thought that. He said, “Well they are all in the boat together.” I said, “Yes, they are in the boat together, but they are arguing with each other.” He said, “Oh oh, teams do not fight, so never mind it’s no.” I said, “That is right! They are not acting as a team. Thank you for thinking so hard about this one.” Lesson Day Feedback Provided How will you encourage students 1. State if it is oral or written and if it is written to use the feedback? Provide the day and what you wrote it on (i.e. rubric, rating Include: content scale, post it) 1. Type of concrete reminder 2. What you actually said related to the content 2. What the follow-up lesson would be Day 3: Math The students in the classroom have been If we were in the classroom, I would struggling with addition the entire school year, so make an addition anchor chart that Monday the students that were called on required many includes what addition looks like October 19, 2020 redirections. Verbal corrective feedback was horizontally and vertically, as well given by all five of the adults present in the as some of the key words that signal classroom, including both YSU teacher addition in story problems. A poster candidates in the classroom, throughout the showing these words will be added lesson. One area where I needed to help the to the Bitmoji Classroom for the whole class the most was during the word students to reference in this virtual problems at the end of the lesson. The students setting, since they need the most had a hard time finding the words that signaled help with these addition words. that we were completing an addition problem. I tried to isolate parts of the word problem on the My lesson about making 9 with powerpoint to help them find it, but when none of addition was followed by a lesson the students could find the words I said, “That is about making 10 with addition. At okay. The words we were looking for were in all. the end of this lesson I said, “So We will keep working on finding these important today we learned how to make 9 by words." We made the decision to continue adding so many different numbers working on word problems after lunch, focusing together. Next time, we will be on the addition signal words. learning how to make 10 with Ms. Scott.” Student #1- He was not on the screen during the lesson. He was laying on the couch in the background with his mom. His mom sent a private message to me in the chat that said, “He is too stressed out right now and needs a break.” I forwarded the message privately to the other teachers and I wrote back in the chat, “Thank you for letting us know.”
Student #2- He was not on task during the fourth
problem using two-colored counters and was instead pushing his brother. I said, “[Student 2], you need to be looking at your screen and leave your brother alone.” He remained on task after this.