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As a part of planning for our subsequent e-book, The Higher Instructor’s Toolbox, I used to be reviewing a few of my older Training Week posts.
I noticed this one from over 5 years in the past, and the thought of a “Shared Journal” jumped out to me. I can’t consider I didn’t soar on the thought then, but it surely does seem that the submit was printed the week all of us closed down for COVID, so I assume I had different issues on my thoughts.
This was written by Dr. Amanda Branscombe, an affiliate professor at Athens State College in Athens, Ala.:
The Shared Journal Course of (Taylor, Branscombe, Burcham, and Land, 2011), was developed by Taylor and several other kindergarten lecturers. The strategy concerned having three college students share a real story from their lives every day. The opposite college students would hear, ask inquiries to be taught extra concerning the details of the tales, after which determine which story would finest signify the historical past of their lives throughout that faculty 12 months. After the sharing, college students would write and draw of their journals a few story….
This shared-journal course of actually created what Bishop (2011) described as creating home windows and mirrors within the classroom. The youngsters’s Shared Journal tales grew to become home windows and mirrors into their lives. “The mirror displays the lifetime of the kid and contains context-specific references to the issues they expertise and the encompassing group the place they dwell. Home windows are openings to the world round learners and embrace consideration of all issues which are potential on the planet at the moment.” (Catapano, 2018, p. 45).
I like this concept, although I’m unsure I might do it on a regular basis – in all probability extra like a few times every week. I’d begin off by sharing some trainer fashions, then a “fill-in-the-blank” graphic organizer.
It appears to me it might be an important exercise!