Kermit Junior High
ELAR Support Day #4, 11/12/15
Check In:
Recall previous dates here: smore.com/cqtd5 and goo.gl/SE4Q4H
Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters
Proposed Agenda:
- What's working? What's not?: Check in regarding discussed strategies and ideas
- Review end of six weeks assessments
- Break down of released STAAR tests by thinking required
- Discuss whole class instruction idea
- PLAN & solve the world's problems together :)
What Do You See in These Data?
Data Review: Asking Five Times Why
- Recall the data video
- Review end of six weeks assessments
- Assess where we are: why, why, why, why, why
- Create a data driven plan from here
STAAR Released Questions Sort
Released STAAR Questions Analysis & Sort:
- REVIEW the questions from last year’s STAAR and EOC exams
Determine the type of THINKING required to answer each question.
- SORT questions and CREATE CATEGORIES that indicate the thinking required to answer the question
Question: where do we go from here? How will your instructional practices and lesson plans shift to push students’ thinking?
TEKS Resource System Updates
http://www.teksresourcesystem.net/
- Resources: STAAR question stems
- Coming Soon! STAAR question analysis
Resource: PBS NewsHour Extra
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/
Use for informational text, make connections to teach the "whole cookie"
Getting Out of the Way:
#notalkWC No Talk Whole Class
Read Alice Keeler's blog post and challenge regarding student centered classrooms here
The Future of Learning: Sugata Mitra
Productivity Pro Tip: Screencasting to Save your Life
PLANNING:
Your Task:
- Choose to infuse at least ONE strategy, resource, or tool into lesson plans for the upcoming week before Thanksgiving break.
- Post your idea here and we'll review how it went after the break: padlet.com/lkile1/kermit
Throught the Lens of a Scorer: EOC English Edition
Save the Dates:
Remember we'll be meeting again:
- Monday, 11/30
- Monday, 1/11
Laura Kile
Don't hesitate to contact me!
Email: lkile@esc18.net
Website: http://www.esc18.net/site/default.aspx?PageID=1
Location: Region 18 Education Service Center, La Force Boulevard, Midland, TX, United States
Phone: 432.561.4319
Twitter: @mslkile