Sunday, September 19, 2010
Atwell Chapter 6
This chapter is all about minilessons. I feel that minilessons are beneficial because students are not forced to sit through class all day and listen to a teacher lecture. It was nice for how Atwell models how she does her minilessons. I was surprised to find out that her minilessons are not just about english content. Atwell uses minilessons to teach her class how she wants them to behave and how classroom procedures should be. Atwell even uses them to show her students where to find resources in her classroom. I never thought about using a minilesson for something besides grammar usage before. With all of Atwell's lists, it is easy to see that many areas of school information can be delivered through minilessons.
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I remember learning in Hutchison's class the average attention span of high school students. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think it was any longer than 10 minutes. Mini-lessons are such a great way to cater to their short attention spans.
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