Hello All!
It has been a very busy and intense week! Our team likes to get the ball rolling very early, so we started chatting immediately about our exploratory question, refining it and getting to what we considered the most important aspects of the data we had chosen. We were all confused about how to provide more data that would satisfy the exploratory question based on Sarah's students, so we asked for...wait for it...help!!
It seems like such an easy thing right? Asking for help. But in teaching (and really anywhere), we find that we think asking for help signifies that we are lacking in some way. Even though we spend a lot of time telling our students to ask for help when they need it, it's embarrassing and time consuming for us to do it ourselves. I have learned with experience, and obviously during this exercise, that asking for help is one of the most important skills you can learn. No one can or should have to recreate the wheel, and through collaboration and making yourself a true member of your group, you can have all of your questions answered!
Once we had all of our data, we worked together very nicely to complete the artifact sheet, and perhaps because our data was so great, it was very easy for us to fill out the sheet. The exploratory question we had chosen was clearly in evidence in all of the pieces of data, so I think for the upcoming data meetings we will have a lot of information to work with.
In other news I also got the flu towards the end of this week, which meant that my mental capacity was lowered a great deal. Fortunately I was able to get all of my work done, despite dissolving into coughing fits every time I tried to record narration for the presentation!
Till next time!
Ally
It has been a very busy and intense week! Our team likes to get the ball rolling very early, so we started chatting immediately about our exploratory question, refining it and getting to what we considered the most important aspects of the data we had chosen. We were all confused about how to provide more data that would satisfy the exploratory question based on Sarah's students, so we asked for...wait for it...help!!
It seems like such an easy thing right? Asking for help. But in teaching (and really anywhere), we find that we think asking for help signifies that we are lacking in some way. Even though we spend a lot of time telling our students to ask for help when they need it, it's embarrassing and time consuming for us to do it ourselves. I have learned with experience, and obviously during this exercise, that asking for help is one of the most important skills you can learn. No one can or should have to recreate the wheel, and through collaboration and making yourself a true member of your group, you can have all of your questions answered!
Once we had all of our data, we worked together very nicely to complete the artifact sheet, and perhaps because our data was so great, it was very easy for us to fill out the sheet. The exploratory question we had chosen was clearly in evidence in all of the pieces of data, so I think for the upcoming data meetings we will have a lot of information to work with.
In other news I also got the flu towards the end of this week, which meant that my mental capacity was lowered a great deal. Fortunately I was able to get all of my work done, despite dissolving into coughing fits every time I tried to record narration for the presentation!
Till next time!
Ally