3rd Post on Inquiry Plan

Well, all was well with my inquiry plan. I enjoyed it and the students seemed to also. I watched the entire video and also showed it to my students. I allowed my students to watch it to show them what time on task really looked like. The day I video taped happed to be a day where the students were very successful at showing me the time on task and attention that I desired in the classroom. I showed them the entire lesson video so they could see that this was how I would like them to be all or most of the time. The stduents really enjoyed watching themselves on teh video and be complemented on their behavior an work. I am now editing the video. I am working with the technology people at our school to edit my lesson video down to a 5 to 8 minutes video and after we complete that this week I will post it on blackboard. I really enjoyed taping the class and being able to watch them and myself, it was very helpful. I look forward to watching all of my groups videos and seeing how everyones inquiry plans worked out. Have a great night, Heidi Lindsay

2nd Post about Inquiry Plan

My inquiry plan is going well. I have realized that my kids do work harder and show more time on task when I use a reward or positive reinforcement. I video taped my lesson and it went very well. My students showed me in the lesson and in the video that have really improved their time on taska nd also showed me that using a system in the classroom such asa reward system really helped them to do so. I video taped an entire lesson in my class for the purpose of playing it back to my students so they could see how their time on task has improved, and the video showed what i expected of them. I told them that what they were watching was what I expected to see everyday to achieve their success. Now I will take the video and work with the tech people at my school to turn the video into a clip that is about 6 or 7 minutes long, to use for this class. I really feel that my inquiry plan is going well and feel that continuing to do this well help improve my students success and how my classroom is run. I think that for the last bit of time that I am workng on my plan I will really see even rgeater results. I plan to continue with this system in my classroom throughout the entire school year and I wil also work to come up with reward options that the students enjoy working towards.

I hope everyone elses plans are going well also and I cant wait to watch the videos. Have a great weekend. Heidi Lindsay