Section D1.2 Logistics and scheduling information: In-service documentation

In-service program documentation
Writing shared journals (D1.2)
Logistics and scheduling information (by Raffaella Borasi)

Journal writing frequency and expectations:

During the Summer Institute, participants were expected to write a journal entry every day outside of the Summer Institute sessions. Written assignment sheets (including prompts for the journal entry) were distributed daily, after the sessions were over. In consideration of the many demands of facilitating a daily Summer Institute, the five facilitators of this Institute tried to take turns in writing journal entries, so that there would be at least one entry by a facilitator every day. We asked instead the experienced teachers that were attending the Summer Institute for a second time in the role of assistants to contribute journal entries on a regular basis.
During their field experiences, participants were encouraged (but not required) to keep a personal field journal (but very few did!)
Both participants and facilitators were expected to bring in an "open" journal entry at each "project-wide" group meeting (that is, about 3-4 times over the year).
Participants and facilitators were expected to read the entire set of journals before the next meeting.

Logistics of making the shared journals available to the participants:

At each meeting (i.e., each day of the Summer Institute, and at each of the follow-up meetings), journal entries were collected as the participants walked in and copies of the complete set made during the meeting, so that they could be handed out to each participant at the end of the day/meeting.