Saturday, January 30, 2016

Midyear SLO Meetings- Feb. 4 Late Start and Feb. 9

SLO Midyear Meetings- Feb. 4 Late Start & Feb. 9


1.  Update Data Sample data sheet
2.  Reflect on SLO           SLO Reflection
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3. Complete  in My Learning Plan and Save and Notify by Feb. 2

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4.  Sign up  here for an individual conference.  

This is mandatory for all teachers on cycle in year 3.

If you are not on cycle, 


  1. you may submit electronically only
  2. you may sign up to meet as a team
  3.  you can meet as an individual 



Other resources

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Understanding Standard 5 and SLO Midyear

Understanding Standard 5 /SLO Midyear Reflection- January 18, 2016

Bring a device!

Teaching Standards

8-8:15- Treats and Catching up with Colleagues
8:15- 10:15- Unpacking Teaching Standard 5 &  SLO Reflection
10:30-4 Work Individually or as a team to ...
                 1.  Complete SLO/  Sample SLO
                 2.  Use data to plan for student needs


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Immerse

Standard 5 ~ Learning Environment

The teacher uses resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, safe, positive, student-centered environment that is conducive to student engagement and learning.

  
Criteria
Distinguished
Effective
Developing/Needs Improvement
Unacceptable

In addition to meeting the effective standard, the teacher creates a dynamic environment where learning is maximized, disruptions are minimized, and students are regularly self-directed in their learning.
The teacher uses resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, safe, positive, student-centered environment that is conducive to student engagement and learning.
The teacher is inconsistent in providing a well-managed, safe, student-centered, academic environment that is conducive to learning.
The teacher inadequately addresses student behavior, displays a detrimental attitude with students, ignores safety standards, or does not otherwise provide an environment conducive to learning.


  • How do I design classroom layout to foster collaboration, mutual respect, communication, engagement?
  • How do I foster intellectual risk-taking of students?
  • How do I design student participation as an active role in intellectual work?
  • How do I value opinions, beliefs, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students and perspective differences?


Watch videos for examples of learning environment
Investigate/ Coalesce
Presentation

Go Public
SLO Reflection

Feb. 4 & 9- Midyear SLO Review

If you are in year 3 on cycle, 

  1. Sign up  here for an individual conference 

If you are not on cycle, 

  1. you may submit electronically only
  2. you may sign up to meet as a team
  3.  you can meet as an individual 


Friday, January 8, 2016

How does technology support Standard 3?

We have been studying our priority Standards 3, 4, 5
We will focus on Standard 3 on Thursday.

Standard 3 ~ Instructional Delivery

The teacher effectively engages students in learning by using a variety of instructional strategies in order to meet individual learning needs.


On Thursday Jan. 14 Nancy will be sharing with us how technology can support our instructional delivery practices.  Please bring a device.





Immerse
Here are some Reflective Questions to review:

    • How do I stay involved with learning targets throughout the entire lesson?
    • How do I connect the real world with content?
    • How do I incorporate higher-order thinking strategies (metaphors/analogies,compare/contrast)?
    • How do I maximize higher-order questioning?
    • How do I integrate standards with other content?
    • How do I engage students through collaboration and active learning?
    • How do I involve every learner in intellectual work?
    • How do I create open-ended problem solving/inquiry?
    • How do I facilitate learning?
    • How do I incorporate students’ creativity and design?
    • How do I use instructional approaches and techniques that are based on student choices, interests, passions, and ambitions?

Investigate/ Coalesce
On Thursday Nancy Dressel will share with us some technology tools that can help us with instructional delivery.

Click here to share ideas on how you use technology to support your instructional delivery.

Presentation

Please bring a device as it will be interactive.



   

Go Public
Try out one strategy with you students



Please comment on how you currently use technology to support instructional delivery on the Google Doc!!!