Thank you for your offer of help with feedback (I’ll def take you up on that) and papers (there are some papers referenced in “Research on Direct Instruction” I might like to get my hands on), and the sympathy on my ma.
I’m interning at a DI school in Baltimore (City Springs). Currently working with the kindergarteners on the language program (I’m supposed to move on to also doing math and reading soon, and teach older kids as well).
The National Institute For Direct Instruction (NIFDI) placed me here. It usually takes a minimum of two years for someone to get really good at presentation, but they figure I should be able to do it in one.
They’re just setting up a program for talented DI teachers to learn design by becoming coauthors on new programs, and that’s obviously where I’m aiming to go next year right after the annual summer DI conference.
Anyway, thing about the internship is that they’ve never had an unpaid foreign intern floating around before, so I end up as the third teacher in the room (the usual set-up at City Springs is a two teacher team. One of them is technically just a ‘paraprofessional’, but their instructional responsibilities are the same at a DI charter school). So I have to make sure I’m actually working on the things I need to be working on rather than getting side-tracked into some not really DI-relevant task.
Thank you for your offer of help with feedback (I’ll def take you up on that) and papers (there are some papers referenced in “Research on Direct Instruction” I might like to get my hands on), and the sympathy on my ma.
I’m interning at a DI school in Baltimore (City Springs). Currently working with the kindergarteners on the language program (I’m supposed to move on to also doing math and reading soon, and teach older kids as well).
The National Institute For Direct Instruction (NIFDI) placed me here. It usually takes a minimum of two years for someone to get really good at presentation, but they figure I should be able to do it in one.
They’re just setting up a program for talented DI teachers to learn design by becoming coauthors on new programs, and that’s obviously where I’m aiming to go next year right after the annual summer DI conference.
Anyway, thing about the internship is that they’ve never had an unpaid foreign intern floating around before, so I end up as the third teacher in the room (the usual set-up at City Springs is a two teacher team. One of them is technically just a ‘paraprofessional’, but their instructional responsibilities are the same at a DI charter school). So I have to make sure I’m actually working on the things I need to be working on rather than getting side-tracked into some not really DI-relevant task.
I look forward to seeing your drafts.
Good luck with your DI internship!