reflection 9: book clubs

This chapter talks about the effectiveness of Clubs all across America and combining collaborative learning and independent reading discuss in previous chapters. It pretty interesting the different mechanism different teachers use and improve upon. I find like bookclubs are important to anysubject and can used to my content area. Our clubs are association that are help through out the country have have workshops within these associations.

I though that Nancy and Mike's Book Clubs were very interesting to read about, I like their way or organizing their training, group formation, Scheduling, choosing five kinds of notes. I like the idea of selecting kids to have Role sheets. This encouraged students to focus on one particular kind of thinking that smart readers use. It helps set a purpose for reading when you sit down with the book. These roles included: The connecter, Questioner, Passage Master, Vocabulary Enricher, illustrator , and the Researcher. Some of these ideas are every applicable in some ways to music education during class.

Of course the teacher will aways be there to assist, observe, and facilitate. In the music class, it's vital the music director is circulating around the room and listening to each individual. There are limitation in a large class rooms so group formation is very helpful in the music setting. As student get to high school. A prospective student will take charge of a section taking all responsibility the teacher may not have time to focus on.