Saturday, November 15, 2008
Observation Question
I'm writing my observation right now and it is quite lengthy I feel. I was just wondering how long it is suppost to be. I looked through all my notes and papers, but couldn't find anything about the length. I feel like I have a lot I can talk about to relate my observation to what I've learn in class... Which I don't think is a bad thing :) I just didn't want to write too much. Thanks!
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Hi Marcie,
I am glad that you saw a lot that relates to what you are learning in class. If you will take the rubric and go square by square and use the block under the score of 4 (I'm assuming you want the perfect score) and let it guide you in your writing that should help you determine length.
I am not interested in length as much as I am CONTENT. You could write ONE paragraph about EACH of the topics on the rubric and if you write to the address the FOUR level you could score a perfect score.
The key will be truly using language of the score of a four. If the students are in small groups discussing volcanoes how does that address syntax (or does it)? How does that address semantics (or does it)? How does that address pragmatics (or does it)? If it doesn't address one of those you do not have to include it in the paper. If it does then include it and EXPLAIN how. You may want to include a specific activity we did in class that connects, a specific portion of the text that relates, a video we watched, etc.
I'm looking for specific connections between what you saw and how that it connects to what we are learning. I'm not looking for a pages and pages and pages on you detailing every specific thing that happened in the classroom.
You demonstrating how what you saw and what you heard in teacher's answers CONNECT(or lacked connections) to what we are learning is much more important than lengthy DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED.
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