WEST ED SWEEPS- 9/19- 9/28- West Ed Personnel will have a VISITORS PASS on them when they come into your room. An Administrator may OR may NOT be with them.
PBIS - Keep passing out the tickets for positive behavior. Since the beginning of the year there has been 1,000 tickets given out to students that have been turned in. Keep up the good work and rewarding positive student behavior. :) Let us know if you need more tickets.
CALENDAR SY@FHS
Monday 9/19-
(ALL students expected to wear ID's...First period teacher make a list of who does NOT have ID and send to office)
7:45- Meeting with student/parent/ administration
8:00- Sherry observation at SY@FHS
9:00- Sherry in observation at SY@AHS
10:00- Sherry in observation at SY@AHS
2:30 - 4:30 - Admin Council - Sherry, James & Gary
Tuesday 9/20 -
9:00- Sherry Walks SY@AHS with Kristen Witt
1:00- Sherry in Observation
1:50- Clubs/Activities/Interventions
1:50- Sherry /teacher meeting
3:00- Department HEAD meeting- SY@FHS office
Wednesday 9/21 - PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY...Community member will be walking both Campuses with Sherry (9:00- 11:30)
2:00 - PBIS monthly meeting room I-1 please come if you're free
ADVISORY Celebration for students who KNOW PBIS rules
Thursday 9/22-
9:00- Sherry walks SY @ FHS with Kristen Witt
8:00-11:00- SART Meetings- Gary
1:50 - Clubs/Activities
2:00 - IEP - Allison's room come and give input after 2:20
Friday 9/23-
Mediation - Sherry/Gary with students returning
3:30 - 504 meeting - Gary
_______________________________________________________________________________
CALENDAR SY@AHS
(ALL students expected to wear ID's...First period teacher make a list of who does NOT have ID and send to office)
Monday 9/19
8:00- Sherry observation at SY@FHS
9:00- Sherry in observation at SY@AHS
10:00- Sherry in observation at SY@AHS
12:50 pm- Hightower in observation meeting at SY@AHS
2:30 - 4:30 - Admin Council - Sherry, James & Gary
Tuesday 9/20 -
8:00- Hightower in Observation
9:00- Sherry Walks SY@AHS with Kristen Witt
9:05- Hightower in Observation
1:00- Sherry in Observation
1:50- Clubs/Activities/Interventions
2:00 - IEP - Gary
3:00- Department HEAD meeting- SY@FHS office
Wednesday 9/21 - PRINCIPAL FOR THE DAY...Community member will be walking both Campuses with Sherry (9:00- 11:30)
2:00 - PBIS monthly meeting room I-1 please come if you're free
ADVISORY Celebration for students who KNOW PBIS rules
Thursday 9/22-
9:00- Sherry walks SY @ FHS with Kristen Witt
1:50 - Clubs/Activities
Friday 9/23-
11:45 - IEP - Staffing w/ Laura - Gary/Admin
SUCCESSFUL PODS:) HIGHLIGHTS!!
I want to THANK all the new teachers for participating in POD. It was a delight to work with the NEW teachers and see ALL the GREAT things they are doing... .PLEASE GO VISIT ONE ANOTHER'S CLASSROOMS!!! THERE IS SOOO MUCH TO LEARN FROM EACH OTHER:)
****Tina had great COLLABORATION going on in her classroom. Students DISCUSSED Imperialism and matched quotes to one of the 4 factors of Imperialism. Tina's time keeping method portrayed on the ITV while playing calming background music was AWESOME:) Email her for more info:)
*****Tenty... IF you do NOT think our kids will TALK ...go visit Tenty's room. She got ALL students to talk multiple times throughout her lesson. They actively and willingly participated:) Tenty had AWESOME community building throughout her entire lesson..Students said good morning to partner, high-fived partner AND participated in ACADEMIC conversations with Partner...
***** Zachery had a wonderful GRAPHIC organizer he used for his lesson. He used a model Similar to 5-2-1 where he had students LISTEN (and take notes), do a QUICK write and then TALK to partner. In addition, Zachary PASSED out PBIS tickets throughout his entire lesson to reward positive behaviors
**** Jeff opened his lesson with students writing the objective and stating what they think it means in their own words. He emphasized to them (and wrote) on the board that their opinion CAN'T be wrong...so Everyone WROTE:) Jeff then had some students (A) read one article an McCarthyism and other students (B) read a different article on Macarthyism and then they had to compare.. by TALKING. Jeff also did an excellent job handing out PBIS tickets.
**** Gregory's lesson was so interesting, I stopped observing and started reading the article on sloths he passed out. Gregory captured everyone's attention in his warm-up/introduction to the lesson. This engaging introduction made students WANT to learn more:) They eventually were DISCUSSING and writing answers to DOK 3 questions:) revolving around Sloth POOP:)
****Rachel's rapport with students in undeniable. Her lesson was extremely entertaining as she modeled appropriate and inappropriate interviewing behaviors. Rachel wore a hat backwards, earbuds hanging over her ears, wearing a hoodie and talking slang. Students were entertained and engaged filling out their graphic organizers as they watched her. Students then DISCUSSED the behaviors. Rachel then used a check for understanding method that included 3 different colored cups.. Email her for more info.
PICTURES OF PODS
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7q6eLlg_-kCRDZIdnBaYXJYRTQ
Bobbing for Doughnuts was a success at SY@FHS..kids had fun:))
Gary took this video in slow motion
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7q6eLlg_-kCRm5uZTdWbE1ablU
In The Tool Box
As we focus on getting our students to participate in academic conversations in our classrooms, we need to provide them with prompts and sentence starters to build their capacity to effectively communicate their thoughts and ideas in the classroom environment. There can be no assumption on our parts that our students already possess academic conversation skills. If we utilize the same prompts and sentence starters in All of our classrooms, our students will become more comfortable and confident, in this area. This will in turn foster critical thinking from our students in our classrooms.
Below, I have attached some prompts for both parties involved in academic conversation. The list is divided into three parts: the skill the students will acquire, and the prompts for the speaker and the listener.
Academic
Conversations ~ Starter Prompts After One Person Has Spoken
SKILL
|
Listening Partner
|
Speaking Partner
|
Elaborate and Clarify
|
“Tell me more about…?”
“Can you elaborate on…?”
“I wonder how/why…?”
“That’s true, but how…?”
“What do you think about…?”
“Why do you think that is?”
“What do you mean by (vague word)?
“Can you be more specific?
|
“In other words…”
“An analogy for this might be…”
“It is important because…”
“It’s similar to when…
“What I’m trying to say is…”
|
Support Ideas with Examples
|
“Can you give an example from the text/other texts/your
life?”
“What is a real-world example?”
“Can you show me where it says that?”
“What is the evidence for that?”
“Such as…?”
“Why is that a good example?”
|
“For example…”
“In the text it said that…”
“An example from my life/the world/another text is…”
“To demonstrate…”
“In this situation…”
“For instance…”
“According to…”
|
Build On and/or Challenge a Partner’s Idea
|
Build On:
“I would add that…”
“I want to expand upon your point about…”
“I want to follow up on your idea…”
Challenge:
“Then again, I
think that…”
“Another way to look at this could be…”
“I see your point, however…”
“But if _______, then ________”
|
“Do you agree?”
“Can you add to this idea?”
“Can you offer another point of view?”
“How does that connect to the idea…?”
“I’m not sure if this is relevant, but…”
“How can we bring this back to the question of…?”
“That’s a good point, too, but you also need to consider…”
“Maybe so, but what if…?”
|
Paraphrase
|
“So, you’re saying that…”
“Let me see if I understand you…”
“Am I right in hearing you say that…?”
“In a nutshell, you are arguing that…”
“In other words…”
“Essentially, you think that…”
|
“I’m not sure I was clear…”
“I can’t remember everything I said…”
“How can we relate what I said to the
topic/idea/question?”
“OK -- what do we know so far?”
“Did that make sense to you?”
|
Synthesize Conversation Points
(Both partners at the end of the academic conversation)
|
“Let’s sum up – what have we discussed so far…?”
“How can we bring this all together?”
“What can we agree upon?”
“What main points can we share?”
“What was our original question?”
“What key idea can we take away?”
|
“We can say that…”
“The main theme/point seems to be…”
“As a result of this conversation, I think that we
should…”
“How does this sound…?”
“What if we…?”
“The evidence seems to suggest that…”
|
Sample of starters and transition terms:
·
For example…
·
According to...
·
To illustrate...
·
Another example...
·
Such as...
·
As stated in...
·
The author stated...
·
For instance...
·
Consider...
·
In fact...
·
The text shows...
·
As evidence of...
·
Specifically...
·
Let’s take the case of...
No comments:
Post a Comment