These are a couple of pictures of what my co-ops classroom looks like. We began doing this formative assessment of what the class understood and annotated from the story "The Lottery and A Worn Path." Each story took about 2-3 days to cover. The reason was because after they annotated as a class on these chart papers that each had a literary term, the following day they had an oral class quiz. The questions to this quiz came from the answers on the chart and more critical thinking questions that they may have skipped over.
Day two of this lesson, the students set up the desks in a straight line and ahead of it on the white board my co-op put the oral quiz chart. The chart is comparing each class result from this oral quiz. The point of this quiz is that the class works together in coming up with good well develop answers to questions that we facilitate from the short story and their answers in order to help them think deeper.
On an average day our desks are set up in a circle. My favorite class in which I taught a lot, was always set up like this because we discussed and analyze Frankenstein the last free days I was there. Overall my classroom was very student centered, open discussion and very safe, that students for the most part felt they could be open with their own opinions and share. I loved that.
These are two other bloc students who carpool with me. They are both social studies ed.
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