New Teacher Support & Development
It is What We Do!
Empowering and Motivating Every Student, Every Day!
Students in various modes of learning:
writing, listening, performing, making the abstract concrete, collaborating
Tools for learning:
clock appointments, anchor charts
These elementary school students exemplify the characteristics of a Soledad graduate.
Kudos to these teachers who engage their students in learning tasks
that empower and motivate every student, every day!
Unlocking the Future, Today!
Time for Partners
Using the Clock Organizer, Ms. Valdivia's (FL) 4th-grade students schedule appointments with partners to engage in collaborative/structured conversations.
100 Days . . . Already!
Ms. Holtz's 1st graders (FL) made for themselves each a 100-day headdress: a headband with ten "feathers" with ten drawn objects on each feather!
Students are Acting-out!
Ms. Townsend's 6th students (RF) are acting-out a dialogue from the class novel, Percy Jackson. Kester Bantin, Ms. Townsend, and I participated in the reading fun! Oh, so invigorating!
My Granddaughter
The 2nd-grader, in pink at left, is the third generation of my students. I had students in Gonzales, then taught their children in Soledad, and this young-one is the daughter of two of my Soledad students! Just call me Abuela!
Ms. Buttle (FL) welcomed new teachers to observe in her classroom! Thank you.
Portrait of a Soledad Graduate Elementary Style
These teachers are teaching and preparing Soledad graduates!
I Can Write an Opinion Paragraph with Reason
With her 1st grade students at FL, Ms. Lopez (FL) begins a conversation asking for students' opinions about reptiles and birds. Ms. Lopez, also, welcomed new teachers to observe in her classroom. Thank you.
100th Day of School
Ms. Reyes' 1st graders (FL) had fun sewing one hundred Apple Jacks and Fruit Loops on a ribbon to make their 100-day necklace: ten groups of ten separated by a bead. They had no mistakes because they ate them!
Theseus Meets the Minotaur
Bravo tutti! Ms. Shin's RTI students presented in stellar-form a mini-musical with a chorus, solos, acting, and a real-live minotaur! Students memorized their parts and presented to the whole school! Students from three 5th-grade FL classes were the cast: Mr. Griffin, Ms. Saenez-Walker, and Ms. Shin's classes.
Taking Off with RACES!
Ms. Valdivia's FL 4th-grader articulated to me the RACES model for writing: Restate the prompt; Answer the question and make an inference; Cite text evidence with a direct quote to support the inference; Explain how the quote and evidence support the inference; Sum it up! Her writing, on the left, shows how she highlighted each part of RACES.
A E I O U
Mrs. Perez reviews with her FL kindergartners their independent Do Now task. This one assignment reviewed several components: vowels, the verb to-be, spelling, amongst others. Students tracked with their fingers to follow along with the teacher. Thank you, Mrs. Perez, for letting new teachers observe your instruction.
OREO - More than Just a Cookie
Ms. Holtz uses a cognitive organizer for Opinion Writing with 1st graders.
Theseus Meets the Minotaur
The Minotaur did not have the lunch he had expected that day. No, Theseus lived to tell the story! The End!
Encore! Encore! Encore!
John Ekelund
New Teacher TOSA
Unlocking the Future Today!
Julia Turner
New Teacher Support & Development Coordinator