Thursday Thriller
February 23, 2023
Photos from the Field
Michelle was honored Tuesday night at the School Board meeting for passing her National Boards! Congratulations, Michelle!
Nuts-n-Bolts
1. Please make sure and review this video in regards to your voice amp. system safety feature. Definitely one of the perks of the system. Thank you to those of you who are consistently wearing yours. It is about CLARITY not volume.
2. Refusal to Work -We are keeping students in for one day. This is not a two-three day thing. The goal is for students to understand that when they choose not to work AFTER reminders they lose lunch to complete what they didn't get finished. There is a tab for each grade level. I will do a better job of adding notes.
3. Let's all remind students to dispose of their candy wrappers in the garbage and no eating in the hallways. If you are allowing students to eat in your class, they need to put their food away before the end of class so they aren't eating in the hallways. Thanks!
4. Students are making growth! Your collective efforts with iReady Wednesdays, class incentives, ELA and Math departments work on Wednesdays with data IS PAYING OFF!!! Great job!!!!
READING
How to Make Use of those Last Minutes?
There is an additional benefit to class planning: you can now use the final minutes of class in an activity that not only can hold the students’ attention, but can help you significantly in understanding what they got out of the class and how you might want to begin the next class. Use the last 2-3 minutes of class time to have them write. They can write a “muddy-point” commentary, noting something that they didn’t understand or would like further discussed in the next class. They can focus on the 1-3 points that they learned from that class. Or they can look ahead: what are their preconceptions of the next class. (I have posted a very short article on this topic, “The Final Three Minutes with 100 Undergraduates,” by Robert Hampel, on CTIE’s Blackboard site. It appeared in the most recent edition of College Teaching 62 (2014): 77–78.) These short exercises have the advantage of focusing student attention on a very defined task for the last few minutes of class rather than on wondering when you will stop talking, giving you an important idea of what they learned (or didn’t learn) in the class, and allowing those who have more to say (and who have the time to stay) to spend a minute or two more than the others with their comments. (Of course, there’s still the next instructor assigned to the class looking through the door wondering when she’ll be able to get in!)
Something to Ponder
The power of Learning from Mistakes and test Retakes.
While I am not a 'stand and deliver' type of teacher nor is it very effective way of teaching (lecture model, students take notes, answer questions at the end of the chapter), there are multiple ways to engage learners in the lecture through note taking. How are we (Garrison) teaching students to take notes from 6th through 8th grade so the art of note taking builds upon itself? Are you giving feedback on the notes students are taking? Is a consistent model being used throughout contents so students are familiar with the process?
Here is one strategy that promotes good note-taking but it also outlines how important it is to give feedback to students on their notes.
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People are Amazing video. This put smile on my face as well as made me think of the hours of practice put into these feats! Not to mention the number of times these people failed but kept on going and pushing.
CALENDAR of EVENTS
Thursday, February 23- District Strategic Planning at the WA HI commons, dinner at 5:00, planning 5:30-7:00. The 'planning' portion is where community, parents, staff round table about what is going well and what we need to strengthen for the WWPS.
Friday, February 24 -GC @ 7:45 in Agnes' room, Happy Birthday, Sydney!!!
Monday, February 27th -Scott and Kim at MS Admin meeting until 9:00, Scott and Kim at Admin meeting 1:15-3:30
Tuesday, February 28th Happy Birthday, Becky Jo!
Thursday, March 2nd -8:00 AM 8th grade SST
