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When you start a collaborative lesson, where would you start and why?

by Tamar Posner 10 years ago

There are many different approaches to starting a collaborative lesson. Some cohorts will create a lesson after identifying a Common Core State Standards, and others will create a lesson based on a topic or a theme. When you start a collaborative lesson, where would you start and why?

Theodore Mueller 9 years, 8 months ago

Julia Andrews: "Let's start at the beginning. It's a very good place to start."

The point: You have to start. We started with some texts that were very specific to our content and then from those specific texts, we built backwards until we found a broad reaching text from which we could develop a question that would push us naturally back into our original, specific texts within our individual contents.