The Spark
DPDC Newsletter Fall 2015
Welcome Back!
2015 Summer Opportunites included:
- Book Studies - Teach Like a Pirate and Help for Billy
- Sharon Faber workshops - How to Teach Academic Vocabulary so All Students Can Remember and Reading and Writing in a Differentiated Classroom
- Youth Mental Health First Aid
- The Study of Mindsets
- Using Social Media in the Classroom
- Teaching Digital Citizenship
- Google Bootcamp
- The Flippin' Classroom
- Questioning and Argumentation Strategies in the Classroom
- Introduction to the Discovery Education Science Tech Book
Google Bootcamp!
Teach Like a Pirate Book Study
Discovery Education Science Techbook
New Teacher Orientation / Mentoring Workshop
Designing Effective Classroom Management
ABCs - Antecedent (what triggers the behavior?), Behavior (what is the behavior?), Consequence (what is reinforcing the problem behavior; what contributes to repeating the behavior?)
Prevent (make the problem behavior irrelevant), Teach (make the problem behavior inefficient), Reinforce (make the problem behavior ineffective)
5 principles of Classroom Management
- Identify and teach expectation
- Reinforce expectations
- Manage misbehavior
- Actively engage students
- Establish procedures and structures
Expectations
- No more than 5 expectations and no fewer than 3
- Expectations are concretely defined as rules
- Positively stated
Feedback, Praise, and Acknowledgement are Synonymous
- Create immediate acknowledgement
- Provide long-term/intermittent acknowledgements
- Has to be genuine and specific
Managing Behavior
- Misbehavior is an opportunity to reteach instead of punish.
- Strategies include: class-wide peer tutoring, mystery motivator, chance jars, sit and watch, high probability requests, dots for motivation, timely transitions game, active supervision and precorrection, rewards target game, time-out from reinforcement, and instructional choice.
- Student Acting Out Cycle ~ Calm, Triggers, Agitation, Acceleration, Peak, De-escalation, Recovery - click here for visual
What Would You Like to Learn Next?
City of St. Charles School District Professional Development Committee
2015-16 DPDC
Ashley Panhorst - Blackhurst - chairpersonRachel Brown - Monroe - co-chairperson
Chris Hylton - Hardin - advisor
Danielle Tormala - Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction
Carla Johnson - Lewis and Clark
Jon Flaxbart - SCHS
Heather Horstmann - SCW
Tanya Sanchez - Success Campus
Karen Loftus - Jefferson
Lauren Payne - Coverdell
Rebecca Ivie - Harris
Lauren Mertz - Lincoln
Lauren Keebey - Null
Randi Riggins - Instructional Services
Clarissa Beyer - Special Services
Tina Lauer - Technology
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/stcharlessd.org/city-of-st-charles-pdc/
Location: 400 N 6th St, Saint Charles, MO, United States