Terlingua ELAR
ELAR Support Day #2, 12/7/15
Welcome and Happy December!
Sign in here: go.esc18.net/signin
Here's what to expect today:
- Main Focus: Recap Results Driven Instruction, Round 2
- Share Resources
- Planning: problem Solve
- Discuss and plan activities to implement for upcoming units
But first, a video to check in regarding the December life of a teacher!
Check in: how are things going?
How are your students THINKING?
For reference and review:
- Results Driven Instruction Round 1, August: http://go.esc18.net/RDIelar1
TODAY'S FOCUS: Results Driven Instruction Training, Round 2
STAAR Released Questions 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?
See Region 10 Study Guides here
A Few Thoughts Regarding Questioning
How are you questioning your students? How are they questioning one another?
- Pre-planning Higher Order Thinking Questions in lesson plans
- Focused Shift: Student questioning through sticks, wheels, mats, etc.
- Reminder: T-TESS evaluation tie in
- See ELAR "sticks" here
- Use a Random Generator: http://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/
- Socratic Seminar, "Speed Dating", THINKING while reading...Figure 19 tie in
- DOK chart from Alice Keeler's blog
TEKS Resource System Updates
TEA: All Things Writing
Reinforce, Refine, Reflect
Step One:
As teachers we wear many, many hats. Make a list of everything you do with and for your campus, one per post it note.
Step Two:
Sort them into categories. What do you notice?
Step Three:
Resort into three categories:
1. Reinforce: Things I do well and want to/must continue doing
2. Refine: Things I want to tweak or change
3. Reflect: Things I want to stop doing
Resources Review & Updates:
Resource: Newsela
What's New:
- additional Spanish articles
- text sets for Literature
- text sets for History
- easier search function
Resource: CommonLit
What's New:
- new pieces added
- additional themes added
- use discussion questions as sample short answers and classroom questioning
Resource: PBS NewsHour Extra
Use for informational text, make connections to teach the "whole cookie"
Resource: Lit2Go
Resource to locate published literature and obtain audio and pdf versions of texts.
ImageThink Notes
- Visual Notetaking & Summarizing
- Classroom Application Ideas?
- Here are a few of our own!
Emoji Exit Ticket
Here's a link to a download version, courtesy of @87history
Getting out of the Way & Engaging Students
Regarding Research & Passion Projects:
- Genius Hour, Passion Projects, and Google's 20 percent time (here's a live binder of collected resources from other educators: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=829279)
- Using the Texas Performance Standards Projects for GT to utilize for research and passion projects with structure and linked to the TEKS (http://www.texaspsp.org/)
A Few Tech Tools:
Organize with Remind
Create an account here: https://www.remind.com/
Use Remind to stay in contact with your students and parents!
New Semester organization must have: add the code to your syllabus and hang it in your classroom!
Poll Everywhere
Poll students (multiple choice, choose an image, free response, OR click an image) via texting from their phones or from their devices.
It's free, it's awesome, and it's interactive!
Gamify your classroom with Kahoot!
Engage your students with an interactive and competitive review!
- Use Kahoot! to review and interact with your students.
- Ideas: review concepts, vocabulary, test prep, classroom rules
- Enrich: have students create their own Kahoots! to play as a class
- Let's play! Go to kahoot.it
- Ready to create your own? getkahoot.com
- Utilize the repository of already created kahoots online
- Flip the learning: have students create kahoot questions to play/review as a class
Upcoming Training Opportunities:
Through the Lens of a Scorer: EOC English Edition
Come see Kelly Gallagher!
June 29 & 30th, Summer Literacy Academy: go.esc18.net/sla2016
Save the Dates
Final Results Driven Instruction: first week of Febrary
- Final District Support Date: 2/23/16
Laura Kile
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