Week of 9/25
This week in one of the PLCs I talked about doing better once you know better. This podcast is an example of why I am continuing my LETRS journey because I know better and need to do better...you and the students deserve my best. Interested in diving into the messy and angry debate over reading...check out the short Podcast Series Sold a Story. I was shocked on how money and ego drove leaders to make uninformed decisions that ultimately impacted me and tons of my fellow educators and more important the students we taught. Take a listen and if you want, share what moved you with me and other colleagues.
Have a great weekend and I'll see you Monday.
P.S. Beginning at 7 AM tomorrow I am going offline for some major downtime. I will not be checking emails at all but if it's an emergency and can not wait until Monday at 7:30 AM, PLEASE text me, call, or send me a message in telegram.
Angela
Collaboration Strategy: 10-2-2 Strategy
Having students continually reflect upon previous learning helps them begin to process information in manageable chunks of information. Occasionally, teachers feel the pressure of trying to get as much information to the student as quickly as possible. As a result, lectures can often turn into runaway freight trains that can leave behind some of the students in the room. This method breaks longer periods of lecture into more manageable periods of information delivery and information processing.
- 10 minute lecture
- 2 minute pair-share with elbow partner, allowing them to share notes, revise information, and add any information that they might have missed
- 2 minutes of independent summarizing
- Repeat the process until all information is presented
This a strategy requiring students to sequence a series of events or concepts by writing summaries, creating illustrations, and posing questions (remember to have them use the various levels of questions from Bloom’s or Costa’s). This activity helps students develop skills in chronological reasoning, summarizing, and causation. Have students divide a piece of paper (poster size is best, but any will work) into the number of sections corresponding to the number of sections in a selected chapter or reading.
After reading each section, students should (you could do it as a class for informational texts):
• Create a title for that section
• Write a short summary of the section
• Create an illustration of the information (this should be the largest portion of the section)
• Pose at least one question that is not directly answered in the text (an “I wonder” question)
- Dragonfly Dash Continues
- Bates and Freeman in CPI Training 9-12
- Dragonfly Dash Fundraiser Begins
- Leadership PLC 12-1
- Dragonfly Dash Campaign Continues
- Hill at Artisan Teacher (Cooper) 8-11
- Planning
- 4th Grade 9:45-10:30
- 3rd Grade 10:30-11:20
- 5th Grade 12:05-12:50
- 1st Grade 12:55-1:40
- 2nd Grade 1:45-2:30
- K 2:35-3:20
- Bates at Artisan Teacher at Micro (11:45-3:30)
- Anderson and Lyons at SS Training (AM)
- Batista and Taboas at SS Training (PM)
- Dragonfly Dash Campaign Continues
- DRES Staff Meeting 7:30-8:00 in Media Center
- See you at the Pole at 8 AM
- Outside of the Cafeteria PTO T-Shirt Design Voting Station during lunch
- Dragonfly Dash Campaign Continues
- Progress Reports Go Home
- Byrd at SS Training (PM)
- PLCs (Grade Level Facilitated)
- 4th Grade PLC 9:45-10:30
- 3rd Grade PLC 10:35-11:20
- 5th Grade PLC 12:05-12:50
- 1st Grade PLC 12:55-1:40
- 2nd Grade PLC 1:45-2:30
- Kindergarten PLC 2:35-3:20
- PTO Hat Day
- Bates and Freeman at AVID WICOR Training 8-10 AM
- Please remember to post a lightbulb of nomination for classified and certified staff member for the month of September by Tuesday afternoon.
- Here is the updated duty schedule. We will continue to run the yellow rotation this week and then the purple rotation begins 10/2. Your name is colored for your rotation. Please make sure you find your own substitute if you are going to be out.
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