Curriculum Footprints
Volume 8 2015-2016
MOONSHOT THINKING - TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT!
Moonshot : (N) - a project or proposal that…
1. Addresses a huge problem
2. Proposed a radical solution
3. Uses breakthrough technology
Important Dates
October 12 - Career Prep Fair for High School students
- MTAC meeting at 3:30
- BT meeting at 3:30
October 14 - Curriculum Principal's Meeting at NCHS
October 15 - 3:45 Meeting with Innovative Grant Recipients at C/O
October 19-23 - CASE Assessments
October 19 - Elementary and Conover Presents to BOE the SIP plans
October 21 - ESL meeting at 3:30
- Media PLC's at 3:30
- PLAN/ASPIRE testing
- ESL Monthly Meeting 3:30 At North Newton Welcome Center
October 26 - Optional Teacher Workday
October 27 - Read to Achieve Testing for 3/4 transition students
October 28 - Operational Principal's Meeting
October 28-30 - Title I Conference - I will be attending this conference.
October 29 - Student Advisory Meeting #1 - 10:00 - 1:00 pm
October 30 - Staff Appreciation Tailgating beginning at 6:15 pm
Title One Information
October
- Prepare to send home the Title I report cards
- Hold a PAC (Parent Advisory Council Meeting)
*Ask if the parents have requests for workshops or activities for the year
*Keep a record of your invitation, agenda, sign in sheet
*Take pictures
*Keep minutes of meeting
- Hold a Parent night – Complete Parent Compacts
-Invitation
-Sign in sheet
-Agenda
-Copies of materials given out
-Photos
- Review the Title I budget with the SIT/Title I team. Review the strands that need evidences collected throughout the school year with your SIT/Title I team.
- Begin to add evidences to the strands on the dropbox
Resources
Title I Amendment Form
Some of our Teachers Learned about Coding this Weekend
Coding is telling a computer what you want it to do which involves typing in step-by-step commands for the computer to follow. Coding is an important part of learning that our students need to be involved in because over the next 10 years it is estimated that there will be 1.4 million jobs in computer sciences and only around 400,000 graduates qualified to do them.
Read the Articles Below to Learn More About Coding...
15+ Ways of Teaching Every Student to Code (Even Without a Computer)
ESL Monthly Meetings
3:40-4:30 @ the Welcome Center
August 21, 2015
September 16, 2015
October 21, 2015
November 18, 2015
December 16, 2015
January 20, 2016
February 17, 2016
March 16, 2016
April 20, 2016
May 18, 2016
ESL Information
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills(BIC)
- Involves using language for social, face-to-face and every day situations
- Highly contextualized and provides lots of clues for comprehension
- Takes 0-2 years to acquire
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
- Involves language skills and functions of an academic or cognitive nature
- Language needed to accomplish academic tasks
- Takes about 7-10 years to acquire
3 Major Instructional Interventions
- Teach vocabulary as a prereading step
- Provide experiences
- Introduce a conceptual framework that will enable students to build appropriate background for themselves
Use Word Webs to Preteach Vocabulary
- A word web is used to organize d t il b t d details about a word
- Write the word in the center
- In each outside circle, write a meaning/characteristic of the word
4 – Corners Vocabulary
Enables students to contextualize word by:
- Creating a chart with an illustration
- A sentence that includes the word
- A definition of the word
- The actual vocabulary word
KIM Strategy
- Provide students with index cards or use regular writing paper
- Students write the key word in the 1st column
- Definition in the 2nd column
- Memory cue or picture in the 3rd column
- Have students use KIM as students develop their vocabulary
Mad Three Minutes
- The tutor will write all the words on the board that have been the focus of the lesson
- Have the students look at the words and study them for a few minutes
- Erase the words
- Have the students write as many words as possible in three minutes
- They can also provide a picture or definition of the word
- The student with the most words gets applause
Mrs. Tammy Brown
Email: tammy_brown@nccs.k12.ncus
Website: newton-conover.org
Phone: 828-464-3191