My initial feeling is that it went well. The discussion between the kids was right on topic, deciding which level something was on an exemplar.
I used Tait Coles' structure with a few tweaks (and shoe-horned in as many cool web apps as I could, just to try them out as it was being filmed).
By the end the students could create a piece of work that was relational level and provide feedback for each other as to what would make it extended abstract.
When I've reviewed the video I'll have a much better idea of how it went but for now, I'm very happy with my end of term experiment.
Plus points:
- On task kids
- Easy to understand structure
- Good standard of work and of discussion
- Because of the shoe-horning tech. they didn't have as much time towards the end as I'd have liked. I had intended to use the triptico hexagons again to refresh the links between concepts
Update: I saw some of the girls from 7A2 in the yard at lunch time and asked what they thought of the lesson..
"As it was almost our last lesson this year I was disappointed you made us do work"
"I thought it was weird because you were talking about deep all the time"
I asked did you understand what you were doing
"Yes"
"Yes, most of the time"
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