I continue to be successful with the teaching of my interactive writing. What I am lacking is finding the time to do interviews and surveys and take meaningful field notes. I have my initial survey but intended giving multiple surveys throughout the process. This next week I am going to really buckle down to achieve this. Another thing I feel I have plenty of is students' writing samples. I have been able to incorporate writing a lot more. One thing I have noticed is my afternoon class, which I am conducting the interactive writing lessons with, seems to be "out-writing" my morning class. One reason I am unable to do interactive writing lessons with my morning class is the tight schedule I have. There are reading teachers that come in and work with certain groups of students and students being pulled out for ESL and other services. I am trying to decide if I think the success is because of interactive writing or because the students in the afternoon are just, by nature, a little higher. I want to start squeezing in a little time with the morning class to incorporate some of this though!!!
I was going to observe for my "thick description" Friday but there was a variety of things that got in the way of this. I am going to look back through all of my notes I have taken and see if I have by come chance got some information I can use. If not, I will not be able to post that to my blog until Monday. I will do that ASAP.
I am nervous about everyone talking about all the data they have collected.I can't help but worry I am way behind on this. Do you guys have any suggestions? What are the different kinds of data you have? Have you started coding it? What are you coding? Sorry! tons of questions--just a small freak out moment on my part. I just want everything done right!!!
Don't panic.... I think it will all work out better than we expect.
ReplyDeleteAs of now I have 3 weeks worth of field notes (I am taking these on Wednesdays) also I have Garfield reading attitude surveys and a survey I made up about daily five in the classroom.
I have looked at all of my data and made some conclusions from it, but I haven't started coding like we have been reading about in the articles for class. I don't really know where to start!
Thank you! This makes me feel better! So it's really ok to not have that many field notes. I am taking them once a week as well. Shew..I guess it will all fall into place! :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with Kate! I am finding schedule changes and huge unexpected time constraints getting in my way. Kate, I love your idea of only taking field notes on Wednesdays. I feel that I am spreading myself thin trying to comment on each day's activity. Sarah, my thick descriptions have been limited as well. However, I keep remembering the quote "trust the process." Real life is occurring in your room and there is nothing you can do to change it. Your data collected will come together to provide you with a strong analysis. Keep up the great work! I am seriously considering implementing this technique in my room next year :)
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