What's behind the picture?

How can we ask ourselves questions to help us understand something?

Through the story, "Zoom" BOPDs used their eyes to tell what's happening and yet they realised that sometimes they do not see the whole picture. There's a story lying behind a picture and it may be different from what one sees. Students worked in pairs to write their thoughts about a picture. They wrote what they thought, what they believed, what they wonder about. We came together as a class and focused on one poster and in the end, Ms Montilla read the story about the boy on the photo. His name is Paul and he is one of the many children from the book, "Where the children are".

Tweet for Learning

BOPDs were excited to analyze parent tweets from Open House. We used a thinking routine called, "Ask, Spot, and Check".  We worked with a partner to look at the tweets. First we wrote down questions that came up, and then we had to spot items that interested us, and finally we checked whether or not the tweet is one that shares learning and makes our thinking visible. It was helpful to have the parent tweets for us to analyze because it honed our critical thinking skills in deciding how we tweet for learning.

Due to this, we composed four guidelines.