Essential question:
What am I finding as I share data?
Pre and Post results: I’ll be doing my post-testing on Monday. I’m excited to see how my little guys have done over the last three weeks.
I’ve been surfing the web for ideas on methods for surveying children. I have my survey ready but I’m not satisfied with it just yet. I'm wishing that I could see some examples of surveys done with young children. I'll be forging ahead next week regardless.
Observation: My observations have been much the same this week. The consistency of the results I believe illustrates the validity of the results. I’m satisfied that I have a good read on the amount of engagement happening during our use of The Daily Five.
One trend that I noticed this week is that children love being able to choose what they are going to work on and when they are going to work. The Daily Five program has children do each of five literacy activities in whatever order they want. The option of choosing the activity order, has allowed me to see which activities are favorite with which students. For example, I have noticed that two little ones just love to write and choose that activity first each time. They are excited to do the writing and spend as much time as they can on it. These children, who couldn’t write a sentence two months ago, are writing stories with three and four sentences, complete with illustrations. I’m convinced that the joy they are getting from writing comes partly from having it be their choice. I would not have noticed this if they were working under a more structured program. It’s an advantage of giving children a bit more freedom. I’m reminded that the difference between work and play is choice. So it is for them.
Next steps: I’ll finish my data collection by Monday, post-testing and surveys. Then I will full into the analysis and writing. I’m excited to more to the next phase.
What am I finding as I share data?
Pre and Post results: I’ll be doing my post-testing on Monday. I’m excited to see how my little guys have done over the last three weeks.
I’ve been surfing the web for ideas on methods for surveying children. I have my survey ready but I’m not satisfied with it just yet. I'm wishing that I could see some examples of surveys done with young children. I'll be forging ahead next week regardless.
Observation: My observations have been much the same this week. The consistency of the results I believe illustrates the validity of the results. I’m satisfied that I have a good read on the amount of engagement happening during our use of The Daily Five.
One trend that I noticed this week is that children love being able to choose what they are going to work on and when they are going to work. The Daily Five program has children do each of five literacy activities in whatever order they want. The option of choosing the activity order, has allowed me to see which activities are favorite with which students. For example, I have noticed that two little ones just love to write and choose that activity first each time. They are excited to do the writing and spend as much time as they can on it. These children, who couldn’t write a sentence two months ago, are writing stories with three and four sentences, complete with illustrations. I’m convinced that the joy they are getting from writing comes partly from having it be their choice. I would not have noticed this if they were working under a more structured program. It’s an advantage of giving children a bit more freedom. I’m reminded that the difference between work and play is choice. So it is for them.
Next steps: I’ll finish my data collection by Monday, post-testing and surveys. Then I will full into the analysis and writing. I’m excited to more to the next phase.
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