I’m realizing more and more just how important it is to assess our students’ level of knowledge quite frequently in order to keep them progressing to the best of their ability while still providing a slight challenge for them. Teaching to a student’s current stage of literacy is imperative, or they will either become bored of too easy of tasks, or frustrated at tasks that are much too hard. I sincerely hope there is adequate time for keeping track of this in my future classroom. The book suggests setting aside time for small group reading time; one group goes with the teacher. I assume this would be a good time for these kind of up-to-date assessments to occur.
I’m also really starting to love this idea of “mini-lessons” and am wondering how it is that I’ve reached this point in my pre-teaching educational career and I JUST learned what these are and what they consist of this morning in TE. These are phenomenal little boosters or reminders of topics and main ideas and concepts that are being discussed in the classroom in big lessons, but can take place in a matter of just a few minutes. What a great idea! I want to discuss these much more in regards to both math and literacy.
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I completely love the idea of mini-lessons, I think they can make good segways to your point, and can help assist students that are trickling behind. I think that sometimes during a lesson some kids can lose the teacher and become frustrated. Mini-lessons take the time to bring kids back with the group and keep them on the right track. I think that sometimes mini-lessons can be spontaenous and are critical to lessons.
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