E-port Notes 5/4/09-Ed's Group

Mike Bullock presented his project to our group, which was for students to create a pregnancy journal. His female students wrote it as a first person narrative from the wife's perspective and his male students wrote it from the husband's perspective. Each student had to have a minimum of 38 journal entries and had to incorporate class notes into the journal. Our group had several clarifying questions with regard to where the data was saved, if the students were able to interview pregnant parents, in what grade the students in the class were and what the scope and sequence was for this particular unit. In using the Critical Friends Protocol, we expressed three compliments about Mike's project. The project is authentic. We like the descriptive journal entry samples that were given to help students see what a narrative writing sample looks like. The narrative format was also viewed positively. The top three recommendations were: be more specific on the rubric , have students self-evaluate and reflect prior to your evaluation of their work and perhaps create or use a school-wide rubric for narratives. Mike thanked the group for our feedback and realized that he needed a more workable rubric and would like to include self-evaluation and reflection into his project in the near future. As a post discussion we spoke about the need for school-wide rubrics in areas such as narratives, public speaking etc. and the need to continue with this same cohort next year in order to further develop professionally and not go in a different direction. Thank you Mike!