Audio or Videotape an All-class Discussion
Tape a science discussion. (Place the recorder or camera so that it will pick up both your voice and the students’ voices.) After class, listen to sections of the tape. Can you catch yourself encouraging students to deepen their reasoning? Can you catch yourself (or students) asking for evidence or reasons based on the investigation experience? Can you catch yourself (or students) challenging or providing a counterexample in response to student explanations? What evidence do you see that students are reasoning more deeply?
Identify a question or dilemma that arose from your independent study and your experience in the classroom. Plan to talk about your experience in the study group. You may want to identify a short interchange from the tape (~30 seconds) to share during the study group meeting.
