After doing the Jigsaw activity in class, I wanted to read the whole article, Learning About Mason:A Collaborative Lesson With a Struggling Reader by Catherine Compton-Lilly. I have never heard about a collaborative lesson, and it seems to be a positive approach to help struggling readers. I think that it is important to build good relationships with other teachers in your school to form a network. Within this network, you can go to someone for advice and ask questions. I feel that this is very beneficial because you have teachers on all different expertise levels with different types of training. With having these various perspectives, you can have many options for teaching strategies. This information is essential for us as new teachers.
In the article Mason was the student that was struggling with reading. His teacher saw that he had a lot of dependence on prompt words to solve a sentence and he had an inability to remember words in writing. His teacher decided to have a collaborative lesson with four other teachers. After the process of observing and collaborating, they came to a teaching strategy that would work for Mason.
I really like this collaborative lesson idea, but it left me questioning certain aspects of the process. When there are multiple teachers observing the classroom and going in and out, wouldn't this be stressful for the students? What if the one targeted student found out it was them that was being observed, how would that make them feel? Lastly, how can the school allow four teachers to miss their class and sit in on another class? Overall, I feel like this strategy is very beneficial, but there is alot involved with it. I also wonder how often this strategy is used due to the complex nature of it.
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