2. Goals
• Share several app’s and tools and discuss their
practical use for administrators
• Allow colleagues time to share an app/tool
that they find quite useful as administrators
5. Teacher talk v. Student talk
10:39
Teacher focused the class and asked, “Which was the hardest question to
answer? A few questions were discussed by Teacher and the class. She
referred one question to the class, “She is saying the question is confusing
What is happening in the text? It does seem like a lot is missing. “
Teacher: To what areas is Islam spreading?
To Where?
Anything we need to add?
Teacher then discussed the geographical advantages the Middle East in the
dispersal of Islam..
10:45
Teacher referenced a wall map of the Middle East to illustrate her points. Students
were not attentive to this presentation.
What did you want students to think about and do here?
6. Teacher talk…
Between 10:39 and 10:47, Mr. Preston tallied the
amount of ‘teacher-talk’ versus the amount of ‘student
talk’ during the facilitated discussion. We discussed
that 84% of the time featured the teacher talking and
what was discussed during this time period.
