{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13341483","dateCreated":"1248699364","smartDate":"Jul 27, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"kristensliker","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kristensliker","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13341483"},"dateDigested":1532426466,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Final reflection","description":"After reading, Getting To Got It, there are several things I want to work on this year. I would first like to remember to let the children think for themselves, especially for those that are speech delayed. I might know\/think I know what they are trying to say, and instead of me talking for them I need to wait and allow them to do the thinking and talking. I also want to work on asking more \u201copen ended\u201d questions, it is so important for all children, especially those children with autism! I want to also do a lot more hands on activities where the children can describe and explore even more than before.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13344631","body":"Awesome - you have to share your results with me!!!","dateCreated":"1248719920","smartDate":"Jul 27, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"CrystalRomero-Mueller","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/CrystalRomero-Mueller","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1246372518\/CrystalRomero-Mueller-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"13290305","dateCreated":"1248278050","smartDate":"Jul 22, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"cay10523","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/cay10523","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1245273901\/cay10523-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13290305"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"(Question 1-Required\/ Final Thoughts)","description":"What are some ways that you might help your students develop reflective awareness and visualization during your lessons?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs I wrote in my first discussion posting my plan this year to help my students better develop these skills is to give the gift of time. This allow my students more opportunity for self discovery and time to internalize new information. I plan to be more consistent in my use of reflective open-ended questioning (\u201cWhat do you understand?\u201d \u201cWhat do you wonder about?\u201d \u201cHow is life like this?\u201d) that emphasizes using their five senses &amp; encourages students to formulate their own. I will continue to use and improve games &amp; activities that incorporate my students interests, build memory &amp; vocabulary, &amp; create hands-on lessons that are relevant that apply to my students abilities, &amp; needs, that are FUN, provoke the imagination, and individuality. I will plan my lessons so that they are more effective and efficient and don\u2019t over saturate the lessons sole objective. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs the author stated &quot;I feel like I am flying an airplane and nobody's on it!&quot; My goal this year in my teaching is not to be the only passenger on that plane!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI thought this was a great book. It reminded me of what it was like as a student again, and reaffirms what I am doing in the classroom. I have a great deal of insight about education in Cy-Fair. I have been a student, I now teach, and am a parent of a child who will attend schools in Cy-Fair. Ironically, I still see the same challenges that I had as a student as we do today in the classrooms. I feel this gives me a greater advantage as an educator in reaching all of my students. My goal is to never let my kids fall through the cracks. I will not let my higher achieving students go unchallenged, my hard workers go unnoticed, or my struggling students get left behind. I believe a teacher can truly make a difference in a child\u2019s learning successes and failures.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13254401","dateCreated":"1248060292","smartDate":"Jul 19, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"jlm10616","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jlm10616","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13254401"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Final Reflection (Mann)","description":"There are several things I am going to do in my classroom this coming year. First, I want to make sure I have a safe place where the child feels safe and can talk to me about anything. I want to develop a relationship with each child so they know I care about them. Second, I want the children to think for themselves. Telling them is not helping them to be life long learners. Using open-ended questions like: What do you see? or What do you notice? will help. Next, I want the children to eventually think with sensory and think with their eyes and then with their head. Last, I hope I can make time to let the children process what they have learned. This book was good and had many ideas for all of us to use.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13189865","dateCreated":"1247525419","smartDate":"Jul 13, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"CassyHunter","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/CassyHunter","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/CassyHunter-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13189865"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"question 1 - required","description":"I think for them to develop reflective awareness and visualization in Kindergarten the key will be model, model, model.  In a series of mini- lessons and in read alouds, I will take the time to put the book down and discuss what it made me think about, and if this is something I feel or part of my schema.  I will use open ended questioning to help them do the same - and teach them how to &quot;think about thinking&quot;.  I feel that if we take the time to build these skills in our youngest learners, it will help them immeasurably in the upper grades. They will learn the cognative structures and how to actively listen and make connections.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13189553","dateCreated":"1247523580","smartDate":"Jul 13, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"CassyHunter","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/CassyHunter","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1202793136\/CassyHunter-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13189553"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Final Reflection","description":"Well...I have been doing this book study while simultaneously doing the District TE for K and a book study on &quot;Growing Readers&quot;.  I have found that while I am starting out doing some things right, I'm not doing them thoroughly.  I guess what I really want to work on with my new Kindergarten class is building those cognative structures.  I need to turn more of their learning over to them by using more open ended questioning and having them find out how they feel about what they are learning and how they were able to think about it that way.  I feel I will get a better sense of where each child is coming from and also where they may need additional assistance in learning these skills.  I must say I have really learned a lot and all three of these activites have reinforced each other in multiple ways.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13169905","dateCreated":"1247340703","smartDate":"Jul 11, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"redasmothers","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/redasmothers","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13169905"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"final reflection","description":"I tried using a couple of the activities to find out if my students were making connections...summer school again. I used the clay and the paper with colored shapes moved around on the paper to see if they really had no connections. Out of the six in the class only one had any understanding of the clay and paper activity. I will try this with my new class after I have a few weeks to know them and know who to begin working with. In summer school there wasn't enough time to make a difference, but I think it would help if it could be given time.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"13198933","body":"What a great idea!!  Also, please believe you DID make a difference to each and every child you taught at summer school.  For those few weeks, you made them feel that they mattered.  That is one &quot;connection&quot; they will keep forever.","dateCreated":"1247591016","smartDate":"Jul 14, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"lgm10227","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/lgm10227","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1232748384\/lgm10227-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"13201627","body":"I am looking forward to using the connection strategies with my students.  I can identify certain areas of difficulty with one in particular.  I think this will make a difference in his success in learning.  Since I know him, I plan to take the first days to use the activities so that he can have a more successful year of reading.  dlb10524","dateCreated":"1247605583","smartDate":"Jul 14, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"dlb10524","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dlb10524","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"13356675","body":"I like your idea, Reda, about using the clay. I want to use it in Science as well. I might use Play-Doh instead because you can find it cheaper, which will allow every child to have some. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is not surprising that only one out of six had the connections. After all, if the others had the connections, they might not have needed summer school, right? Even though you do not feel that you made a difference, I'm in agreement with Linda. I think you did and you do every year. See you soon!<br \/>\nSarah","dateCreated":"1248797575","smartDate":"Jul 28, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"ssims2","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ssims2","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"13161729","dateCreated":"1247253726","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"LKitzmann","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/LKitzmann","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13161729"},"dateDigested":1532426467,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Final Reflection.","description":"I have not had a chance to try any activities from the book with a class.  I have done some work with number conservation with my students in the past.  Many of my students develop number conservation throughout the school year.  It is very interesting to watch them develop number conservation.  I am going to expand my attention to  conservation this year into all subjects.  There are many other things from the book that I cannot wait to try.  My students will definitely be describing and noticing more this year.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13158697","dateCreated":"1247235315","smartDate":"Jul 10, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"1497","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/1497","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13158697"},"dateDigested":1532426468,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"final thought ","description":"1497=mbales","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13151131","dateCreated":"1247174192","smartDate":"Jul 9, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"swimmerchick003","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/swimmerchick003","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1244939364\/swimmerchick003-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13151131"},"dateDigested":1532426468,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Final Reflection","description":"Dohnya Banks<br \/>\nAfter reading this book I thought of a lot of things I want to try, but I picked out one that is going to be my goal for this next school year. I want to try to create a better relationship between each one of my students and myself. I want each one of my students to feel that I have a special bond with them. So...my plan is to eat lunch with each one of my students at least once a semester. I often talk to my students on the playground during recess duty, but I really want to be able to make myself more available to them. I am going to give each one of my kids an undivided 30 minute lunch break with me so that I can better get to know them. I think that by doing this my students will have a better relationship with me and they will get more out of what I am teaching. Hopefully my students will feel that I care about them as an individual and as a member of the class. I'm hoping that it will also help them to be more accepting of each other because they know that I accept them. In my class, we always say that we are a family and that we treat eachother the way that we want to be treated. My ultimate goal is that by me just spending a little one-on-one time with my students that they will see that they trully are a part of our classroom family and that they are important. I also want to try to have a couple of times where I eat lunch with my whole class and where we can all sit around and talk about what is going on in our lives and how we feel. I have a classroom meeting every Monday, but I would like for these &quot;lunch meetings&quot; to be less formal. I may find that once a semester isn't enough, so I may have to increase the number of individual lunch sessions with me to help bring home the message. I want my students to know that I care about them as an individual and as a member of our class. I also want my students to feel comfortable about coming and talking to me about anything. After all, I tell them that I'm their &quot;school mommy&quot; and to me a real mommy is one you can talk to about anything.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"13087153","dateCreated":"1246630112","smartDate":"Jul 3, 2009","userCreated":{"username":"1497","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/1497","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/emmotteagles.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/13087153"},"dateDigested":1532426468,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"final thoughts","description":"mbales<br \/>\nI have been thinking how can I put this book and its lessons into practice for next year and what I have come up with is just give them time.  The students need time to process information and the concepts that are taught.  I know, as many of you, that we are under the gun of time restraints.  We have a certain amount of time to teach a topic and then we have to move on to something else.  I am going to try very hard to give my students time to visualize and have them meditate meaning so the information will sink in and be remembered.  I also plan to use more open ended questions in class and give them the opportunity to reflect and to think.  The students need time to connect the new information with the previous information and see how they are related to each.  This takes time, which we don't always have to much of.  This can be done in stations or centers.  Providing opportunities to experience the same thing over and over again.  Hopefully this will make them feel much more confident in their learning. I enjoyed reading the book and hope it will help me become a better teacher and a better person overall.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}