During my two weeks at MERIT I learned about an amazing blog by Crystal Kirch. She gave me the idea of doing WSQs with my students. A WSQ (pronounced whisk...like the kitchen tool) goes along with flipped videos. The W stands for watch and take notes, the S is for summarize and the Q is for questions(about content or a future quiz question).
I assigned my first WSQ to the kids last week. I had explained how it works and also put step-by-step instructions for them to follow. Eventually I want them to do this on their own but you have to start somewhere! Here is the link to the worksheet they used.
I gave them a day to watch the video and take notes. The next day we started class by having a WSQ discussion.
I have been emphasizing that this is the year of failures and questions since I am learning so many new things and trying it out with them. Since I have already stated this many times with them, it made sense to have a discussion centered around their questions.
I gave them a couple of minutes to share their question with their table groups then they had to choose one they thought was a good question. They wrote their groups question up on the board. Once every group had written their question then we went through them and I had THEM answer their own questions. So powerful and brought up many more awesome questions!
No comments:
Post a Comment