[MOSAIC] Visualizing lesson study

[Bonita DeAmicis]

Jennifer,

Let me first congratulate you on jumping in to the lesson study process and thank you for your willingness to share the process with all of us! I agree--it is powerful professional development, often putting teacher reflection into hyper-gear.  It will affect all of your lessons--not only the one you are working upon now.

  >Having 
> taught this lesson before with struggling  learners, I had realized that many 
> kids have trouble 'seeing' what happens in  between each of the pictures. 
> They simply re-draw the images in the second  picture.  I had two wonderful posts 
> here on this list that suggested I have  the kids turn their backs and then 
> add a hat and funny glasses to a student and  ask the kids to imagine what 
> happened while they turned their backs.  

I am so excited that the list was able to provide some ideas!   It is like macro-micro lesson study!

> I need to tell you all that this demonstration before reading helped a LOT  
> but I still had a few  kids that were having trouble with this idea once we  
> went to the picture book...Tomorrow my colleague will reteach the lesson but we are  going to 
> SKIP a couple pages and ask the kids to visualize what happened in a  "larger 
> moment of time." 

I look forward to hearing what happens as a result of your change! Please continue to share!

>We  also added a 
> visual diagram where we had the words Schema and Text clues  funneling into a 
> person's head which has a video camera in it. The idea being  that kids see a 
> visual of  the idea that visualizing comes from background  knowledge and the 
> text.

Did you observe whether this visual helped with the lesson objectives in any way?  

  
> I have to tell you all, if you ever get the  chance to engage in the lesson 
> study process, DO IT! It is a powerful way to  collaborate with colleagues and 
> I learn something important each time!

Agreed!

Bonita