PLP Log - Spring 2015

PLC 3- Steffani, Ellen, Chandler, Victoria and Grace C.

Date

What was Discussed

April 9, 2015

Chapters 1-2 In making Thinking Visible

- We met with Dr. Hoagland's
group as well as Dr. Bluiett. We talked
about the introduction to the book and
some various strategies that could be
used in our units. We thought about
how we think as students and
teachers as well. It is important for the
teacher to know how she thinks before
she can determine how her students
think. We also talked about our
experiences at Tarrant so far.

April 15, 2015

Chapters 3-4 In Making Thinking Visible

- We met with Dr. Bluiett at
Zoes after class at Tarrant. We looked
at the various strategies that were
explained to help students with their
thinking. We shared our favorites and
ways that we could use them in our
units.

April 23, 2015

Chapters 5-6 in Making Thinking Visible

- We looked at the various
strategies that were explained to help
students with their thinking. Dr. Bluiett
had us doing one strategy together.
We did the CSI activity. CSI has the
students respond to something using
color, a sketch, and then an image.
She told us first to pick a color that
represents this time in our life. We
picked our color and drew it on a
piece of paper in an image that also
represented the color. After we had a
moment to think and draw a quick
sketch we discussed our thoughts
together. Grace picked green because
it represented a fresh time in life.
Steffani picked blue. Chandler and
Victoria both picked orange because it
is a combination of yellow and red.
Yellow represents happiness in our
lives and red represents conflict in our
life. Finally, Ellen picked red because
it reminded her of teachers and love.

April 29th, 2015

Chapters 7-8 in Making Thinking Visible.

- We met with Dr. Bluiett through
a Google Hangout. The program lets
you text through a gmail account. We
looked at various quotes that were
found in Making Thinking Visible. We
took turns sharing our interpretations
of what we thought each quote meant.
We also shared what we liked about
the book as well as ways we could
implement these strategies in our
classroom. Finally, we talked about
ways that we could implement these
techniques into our unit.