Post Olympics

So the hockey team has redeamed themselves!!! The past week has been challenging non-the less for getting on with my objectives. It has actually been two weeks since my last post.

Speaking Fluency Group
It was difficult to work with the Speaking Fluency group due to various obligations that canceled the class in the first week. The second week we got back on track but I was so eager to make up for the lost time that I forgot to give them processing time through the coach and speaker activity. It will have to be a magical lesson on the Tuesday after spring break.
As part of a regular "Auction" event I do, each student will have to present a persuasive advertisement for an item they bring to sell off. We will create the criteria for a good oral presentation(both listener and speaker). Then we will see what happens

Study Skills Group
This group has used both periods to accomplish the task as originally planned. Thank goodness for the two weeks. They did a terrific job of creating the criteria for a good listener. I will include it in one of my pages as soon as we get back from Spring Break. They created listening performance standards for Body position, Listening for Understanding and Listening for Assignment Information. I don't think we had time to really bring attention to the pattern that formed in their Rubrics but I was able to break their comments into a 7 block rubric with the following rows: Body/eyes, hands, speaking, understanding, remembering, assignment and outcome.
My plan is to create that rubric and hand it to them for them to self evaluate. weekly for the next little while. It should be interesting.