Clinical 3: Set High Expectations
Stretch it
The goal of “Stretch it” is to make asking and answering follow-up questions a habit, adding a divertiy of types of questions and developing a classroom culture where students embrace that learning is never done (Lemov, 2015, p.108). The lesson that I prepared my stretched it activity was for a read aloud vocabulary lesson on the book The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy. I wanted my students to be able to stretch it with the definitions of our two vocabulary words, Masterpiece and Patchwork, and with pulling evidence from the text. When planning the lesson, I specifically laid out the definitions in my lesson plan that I wanted my students to be able to approximately generate (“Masterpiece: …show more content…
Additionally, my students have a tendency to mumble through answers and that was a behavior I wanted to work to eliminate. For both the stretch it and the no opt out questions, I tried to create questions that I knew my students would be able to answer without having to expend too much mental effort. Because I just started working with my students and we have not really employed stretch it or no opt out until now, I wanted to ease my students into responding to these types of question. For instance, for no opt out, when I asked my students to remind me what two of the vocabulary words from the previous lesson, I was seated right next both a white board and an anchor chart that had the two words I wanted on it. This way, I knew that when students did not respond it was because they were choosing not to put forth the effort to answer the question and not simply because they did not …show more content…
There were times when I would effectively initiate stretch it, but I would allow students to get away with not answering my questions. Similarly, when employing no opt out, I did not make that my students were stretching their questions and taking their thinking to the next level. I think combining techniques is a something that I will need to intentionally practice as I continue throughout the summer institute. As a short term action step, I will try to incorporate one question in each lesson that I will both not allow my students to not answer and that I will make sure they completely stretch. This way I can build up my confidence with using these techniques
Stretch it
The goal of “Stretch it” is to make asking and answering follow-up questions a habit, adding a divertiy of types of questions and developing a classroom culture where students embrace that learning is never done (Lemov, 2015, p.108). The lesson that I prepared my stretched it activity was for a read aloud vocabulary lesson on the book The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy. I wanted my students to be able to stretch it with the definitions of our two vocabulary words, Masterpiece and Patchwork, and with pulling evidence from the text. When planning the lesson, I specifically laid out the definitions in my lesson plan that I wanted my students to be able to approximately generate (“Masterpiece: …show more content…
Additionally, my students have a tendency to mumble through answers and that was a behavior I wanted to work to eliminate. For both the stretch it and the no opt out questions, I tried to create questions that I knew my students would be able to answer without having to expend too much mental effort. Because I just started working with my students and we have not really employed stretch it or no opt out until now, I wanted to ease my students into responding to these types of question. For instance, for no opt out, when I asked my students to remind me what two of the vocabulary words from the previous lesson, I was seated right next both a white board and an anchor chart that had the two words I wanted on it. This way, I knew that when students did not respond it was because they were choosing not to put forth the effort to answer the question and not simply because they did not …show more content…
There were times when I would effectively initiate stretch it, but I would allow students to get away with not answering my questions. Similarly, when employing no opt out, I did not make that my students were stretching their questions and taking their thinking to the next level. I think combining techniques is a something that I will need to intentionally practice as I continue throughout the summer institute. As a short term action step, I will try to incorporate one question in each lesson that I will both not allow my students to not answer and that I will make sure they completely stretch. This way I can build up my confidence with using these techniques