In the month of February “Artist in the Classroom”
Shelly King came into my 5/6 classroom to work with my students. Students were creating shadow puppets and
then they were asked to work together in small groups to create a short
dramatic presentation. I decided that
this would be a good chance to bump up poetry reading in class so for the few
weeks before our first visit we read and shared lots of poetry. A great source for poetry reading is
poetry4kids.com. For the first 2 sessions students worked on creating their
characters and practiced reciting the poems focusing on voice and
movement. During the 3rd
session students we used the Ipads to record student presentations. Using the class created Success Criteria the
class (and the artist) provided feedback for each group. Students were given work time to use the
feedback and then present again. The
Ipads were used again to video the updated performance. It was really easy to see that students had
listened to and used the feedback to improve their presentations. Using video has definitely become an
important tool in our classroom. I was
able to watch the videos later and pull marks for drama, oral, visual arts, and
reading and most importantly, the problem solving and critical thinking that I
observed was incredible!
Joan, I love how you take advantage of having the videos accessible after-hours. It provides the opportunity to see things we didn't see before and assess more thoroughly than ever before. The best part is that kids can see their presentations and critique themselves, and if given the opportunity, improve their performance the next time. It sounds like there is some amazing learning and reflections happening in your classroom Joan :)
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