Lovett Notes
A Newsletter for Lovett Staff
Coming up this week!
Tuesday October 4
3rd Grade STEAM Planning
Wednesday October 5
3rd Grade STEAM Planning
Progress Reports Go Home
12:30 pm Campus Specialist Math Training
Thursday October 6
9:00 am Magnet Tour
3:30 pm Faculty Meeting; Lounge
Friday October 7
8:00-8:30 am Donuts with Dad
6:00 pm Movie Night at Lovett
2016 National Blue Ribbon School
Lovett was selected as a National Blue Ribbon School in the category of Exemplary High Performing Schools. You can read more about the two categories on the National Blue Ribbon website. I hope that each of you takes time to reflect on being apart of helping Lovett to receive this distinction. If you are new to Lovett, you can reflect on how you help us continue to excel and become an even greater school. While this award brings us great pride, it also brings a great responsibility to ensure that ALL students at Lovett have access to the exemplary educational experience that we have become known for. Thank you all for your phenomenal work and dedication to our children. I look forward to celebrating this achievement with you in the upcoming weeks.
Objective Driven Lessons: What it is!
The book, Teaching Practices from American's Best Urban Schools, is a great resource for learning more about classroom best practices. Below are some best practices as we continue to focus on mastery and using daily learning objectives to drive our instruction and student work. Discuss these with your PLC to see how well your practices align with these effective practices.
Focusing on Mastery is:
- planning with a focus on increasing the likelihood students will understand the specific concept/skill by the end of the lesson.
- the teacher planning activities that are likely to help students understand the concept he/she wants them to learn within that class period
- the teacher designing questions that will help determine if students are progressing towards mastery.
- the teacher anticipating misconceptions and designs the lesson, activities, and examples to avoid the misconceptions
- the teacher constantly monitors and assesses to determine if students are making sense of the lesson and makes adjustments where needed.
- the teacher aiming to get students to thoroughly understand a concept of skill
- the teacher engaging students in learning activities that lead to better understand the objective.