PLC's scheduled for the next two weeks will be focusing on Benchmark data. Schedules can be found on the PL Calendar tab above. Please bring BM scores and Standard Mastery information to discuss. If you need assistance creating/printing reports, let me know and I'll be glad to help.
Meetings are mandatory - please make arrangements to attend and be on time:) Someone was having trouble viewing calendar. Below are the dates:
Many of you have incorporated CommonLit into your classrooms and they have a new feature you should check out...Guided Reading Mode. In this mode, students are prompted to answer lower-level inferencing questions during reading to help check for understanding. These questions aren't scored; they are designed to prepare students for the text-dependent question set. Great differentiation tool!
Like we have shared in our meetings and PLC's, productive struggle can be as difficult for the teacher as it is for the student. It is our nature to want to help a struggling student. We want to prompt them, give them suggestions and clues, and sometimes, just rush them along. We have a tremendous amount of content that we are responsible for in a short period of time!
As Mrs. Adams discussed increasing wait time as a strategy to focus on rigor, I thought about the following article and wanted to share it with you. Over the next couple of weeks, try the three pausing methods described in the article and share the results with your peers in your next PLC meeting. I can't wait to hear what happens! Not sure what happened with the article not showing for some of you...please let me know when that happens so I can fix it right away! I could see it on my end. All scheduled tests should be finished by Wednesday.
Makeups must be completed no later than Friday, 1/20/17. Below you will find directions for printing reports. There are several options available, depending on the data you wish to see. We will discuss this in more detail at the PLC meetings beginning next week. Portfolio: At a minimum, student results should be included, with those not mastering standards highlighted. One of the standards teachers are rated on in TKES, is "Assessment Uses" and the PowerSchool reports are an ideal way to use the data to drive instruction. This report could be included in your Portfolio and used to differentiate instruction depending on the skill/standard in question. If you are interested in creating short explainer videos for your students (or having them create videos as assessments), check out the following link...I'm also going to create a section under the PD tab for technology-related tips and tools. Be sure to check it out occasionally!
And let's not forget the wonderful Mrs. Lisa Winters. My apologies for the omission, Mrs. Winters!
If you would like to see the exit report slides shared with us from our recent AdvancED visit, you can click on the button below. We earned accreditation and scored well above average in all three domains, Teaching and Learning Impact, Leadership Capacity, and Resource Utilization. Thank you for your hard work during this process!
Thank you for the great participation yesterday in our PLC session! I look forward to seeing how the questioning sequences work in your classrooms. Please comment here so we can share experiences and learn from each other. Below you will find notes from each group and next steps.
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