Data, Data, Data

Have spent the week gathering 2000 pieces of classroom practice data (amen for Freda, or we would never have completed the task!). We conducted random drop-in visits in each grade level and each content during the week. We have already seen their best (during scheduled visits), and now we are looking at what they do when they do not know we are coming in. Mixed, some great, some not so great, but all in all a typical result we would see in any school we work with.

I did see a wonderful visual art lesson, with instruction on the mathematical proportions of the human face, and practice with learning how to draw the face with correct proportions. So, of course you know that this posting is for my friend and colleague Catherine, who also loves to work with students and teachers using this same strategy. Above is a photo of the new visual art teacher, an interesting young man, quiet and patient, working on the strategy with a Standard 5 student.