Discussion from last week's class

In class last week, we began discussing the format of this assignment.

From what I can recall, we decided we will be jigsawing and each person (some may be paired up) will be in charge of presenting one of the 4 classroom practices that Lewis studies in her book:

1.) Read Aloud

2.) Peer-Led literature discussions

3.) Teacher-Led literature discussions

4.) Independent Reading

We also decided to discuss some of these themes (maybe based on each individual presentation, some will be more relevant than others.)

THEMES

• Social Class and Power
• Gendered-leadership and regulating of
• Teacher's vision/ideology of literacy and how she creates it
• Gender & ability as power (roles in the classroom)
• pg. 62- Vision vs. reality (ranking students)

Maybe what we can do is have everyone respond with what they feel they would be most comfortable "taking the reins of," though we will all certainly help each other out. For instance, Katy did an awesome job transcribing her students conversation, which could be considered a read aloud discussion. From there, Katie might want to look at the themes in relation to her own practice.

Also incorporated in these groups could be interactive activities that bring these themes to life. For instance, conducting a read aloud with our classmates, but with an "agenda." (Knowing you will be favoring some opinions over another) or asking everyone about their own perspectives in their classrooms. Maybe we could have someone show a video of a class discussion and one of the groups can analyze it.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

See you all tomorrow!!