I have been coaching students at Bancroft for seven sessions now. Something I would like to focus more on is adequately engaging all of the students in my group. This is a pretty all-encompassing goal, because it includes getting the quieter students involved as well as those who are much more distracted/distracting in our group. I feel like I have improved on getting one student more engaged and interacting with the group, but have lost another student. Then I have two who have the opposite issue, they talk and interrupt what we are doing with off-topic conversation points that it take us off-track. Sometimes they aren't paying attention and ask exactly what someone else already has.
What I will do to keep track of my progress, will take some notes during and especially after our sessions. I will take some video and also blog about my challenges in working towards progress in this area. I will also do some online research (likely school databases to start with) to find techniques are strategies pertinent to this skill set. I will reflect and assess how well I implemented these strategies and whether they were or could be effective. Much of this will be posted on this blog.
What I will do to keep track of my progress, will take some notes during and especially after our sessions. I will take some video and also blog about my challenges in working towards progress in this area. I will also do some online research (likely school databases to start with) to find techniques are strategies pertinent to this skill set. I will reflect and assess how well I implemented these strategies and whether they were or could be effective. Much of this will be posted on this blog.
I keep going back to this in my posts because I saw this happen in both my group and another group. My experience has been that when the students are really engaged, the quieter students tend to speak up and the students who can create distractions keep focused. One thing that I took from Eric's group was the importance of getting students engaged through making sure they are learning about their topic while they are creating the PA project. Eric would start most of his meetings with an interesting fact or issue related to the environment (their topic) that would get the students engaged and interested, also reminding them why they were there doing the project. This is something that I've put into action in my group with a lot of success.
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