Mr Hossack Observation

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I loved the way Mr. Hossack conducted this particular lesson because of the way the students took responsibility for their own learning! The way he guided them through a complex process was brilliant.

Desired Results-- learning objectives:

Mr. Hossack not only posted the class objectives on the board, he discussed them with the class and made sure they understood the vocabulary used in the objective as well as what learning outcome to expect. The students were clearly accustomed to discussing the objectives before beginning the activities.

Assessment Evidence

Mr. Hossack used both formal and informal methods of assessment. He was able to tell throughout the activities how the students were doing by looking at their annotations and what they wrote for the “gist” of each section. He was able to tell from the “Post-It” exercise how well each child justifies the connection of a detail to the main idea. Lastly, the “debrief” discussion session revealed whether the children were able to identify the main idea and connect details to it.
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Motto “get the gist in baby steps”. • Annotation of text used to identify gist of each section. • Activity involving details from the article on the Seneca posted around the room on large papers, students had to explain how the detail connected to the big idea on post-its. • Class discussion, summary,

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