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Personal Geometries:
Working within the Variable Landscapes of
Language, Culture, Curriculum and Relationship


Ellen Franz, Bayside Elementary
Sausalito/ Marin City Unified School District, CA

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What are my students learning?

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Student Work

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Documentation of Teaching/ Classroom Videos

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Commentary

Computer assignment posted on boardComputer assignment posted on board

 

Introducing the Assignment
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Introducing the Assignment
Ellen reviews the assignment and checks to make sure that all students understand the task.
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Closeup of the computer assignment.
 

Staying On Task
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Ellen rotates among the students during computer time.
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Demonstrating "Insistence"
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Reminding A. of what she needs to be doing using the "broken record" technique.
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Checking In
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Connecting with individual students.
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>>See also:
Ellen works with another student

Scaffolding Student Learning
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Troubleshooting the assignment
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poem Ellen's students recite this poem each morning, and they have made it into a class book with photos of all of the students.
Supporting Students
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D. talks about how Ellen helps students on hard days, and celebrates their accomplishments on good days.
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Joyful Expression
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During a break, students dance to Yo Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin's album "Hush".
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Self Esteem
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Ellen's students talk about what it means to be an "intelligent child".
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Reflections on Teaching

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Narratives

A series of narratives that illustrate points of difficulty and illumination in my relationships with students

Matrix

A document that links together a narrative from Ellen's class with reflective commentary on what else was going on (what she had to know about the student's family, what she'd read in relevant literature, what was going on in her own head, etc.)

Teacher Reflection
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Ellen talks about insistence, relationship building, and Ellen's inquiry questions.
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Ellen describes how she first establishes relationships with parents through regular phone calls home.

Student Work

student work
Demarcus' writing related to my narratives.
 

student work
Demarcus' writing related to my narratives.

 
student work
Demarcus' writing related to my narratives.
 

 

 

 

 

Site last updated May 31, 2006