Take
a step back from your classroom and examine the video clip
in relation to your own instructional practices. Use the questions
below to spark discussion about instructional practices in
department meetings, team meetings, or as a writing prompt
in your own professional journal.
Consider:
What
is successful in this classroom’s literature discussion?
How
do you think the teacher brought the students to this point?
Keeping
in mind the goal of helping students create their own understandings
of literature, in what ways can this classroom discussion
evolve?
How
can students contribute to the conversation? How can the
teacher push the students’ dialogue along?
2. 
Take
a step back from your classroom and examine the video clip
in relation to your own instructional practices. Use the questions
below to spark discussion about instructional practices in
department meetings, team meetings, or as a writing prompt
in your own professional journal.
