that they want to complete from the five that we do daily. This teaches the kids to work independently and frees teachers up to meet in small groups and with individuals. My reading specialist and I both have iPads. I created a doc for each kid and can share it with her. Now we use our iPads to take anecdotal notes on the kids reading. I can see what she has done and visa versa. It has made us very consistent. Sometimes the kids are baffled at how I can know what she has said to them moments before when I meet with them. When I do new reading assessments I always put each kids goal and strategy at the top so we are always able to remind them, and ourselves, what to focus on. The Two Sisters call their notebooks a Pensieve from the Harry Potter movie and a connection that one of their students made.
An iPad Pensieve!
I love the idea of using the iPad to keep anecdotal records. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHi Jena, Thanks for following. I feel a little lonely at the moment. ;o)
ReplyDeleteAwesome! We are lucky to have an iPad in each classroom at my school for both student and teacher use. I would love to use the iPad for my Pensieve. I am trying to be a paperless as possible. Thanks for the great suggestion! So did you create each of the pensieve forms in Google docs? Do you also keep track of your strategy groups there? Thanks for the help!
ReplyDeleteHi Sara, I did create a doc for each kid. I have not figured out how to do my strategy groups yet but I am working on it.
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