Collaboration Reflection Post #2

My second collaboration meeting with Jim was just as fun as the first.  This one was much more focused on teaching methods then our last meeting, mostly because so much of my Stage 3 work was spent thinking of strategies and methods that I want to use with my students throughout this unit.

I found that a lot of what I want to use for strategies are things that Jim is familiar with, which is AWESOME!  He already uses Venn diagrams, ThinkPairShares, Frayer models, and is familiar with Wordles.  He also use to be an English teacher so he's interested in the slam poetry and other writing my students will be doing during the unit.

He isn't as familiar with working the i-Movie program or Garage Band, but the best thing about him is that he's eager to learn new things. Even if he doesn't have his own students use these same pieces of technology with his content in his class, at least he is open to learning about those tools.