Coaches' Corner
October Newsletter, Volume 3
In this Issue...
From the Principal's Desk
Cool Tools
Purposeful Practice
EC Spotlight
Teacher Spotlight-Ms. Baldwin
PLT Update
From the Principal's Desk
Kagan Update
We all know that if you use Kagan exclusively, you are pretty much operating in “Teacher C” mode. However, we also learned in our training that good teachers will know when to instruct as “Teacher A, B, or C.” Regardless of which, formative assessment during instruction should definitely be an integral part of the process. There are essentially three types of assessment:
- Formative
- Benchmark and
- Summative
The National Forum on Assessment (1995) suggests that assessment systems include opportunities for both individual and group work and those include individual, partner, small group, and whole class--sounds like Kagan to me. My point is this, although we are heavily focusing on Kagan (as we should be), its implementation should not be with the absence of formative assessment. Lastly, when you are formatively assessing your students--whether it be individually, in partners, small cooperative groups, or as a whole class--as a teacher you should have some method of documentation to record what you discover during process of learning real-time.
-Mr. Colvin
Cool Tools
Read&Write Extension for Chrome
Bubbl.us
Project Explorer
Quizizz
Desmos
Cells Alive!
Five Strategies to Nurture Collaboration
EC Spotlight: Disability Awareness Month
Saturday, Oct 1, 2016, 12:00 AM
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Teacher Spotlight: Ms. Baldwin
PLT Next Steps:
- Join your PLTs' Google Classroom. Invitations were sent via email.
- As discussed in PLT Day 2, upload your strategy to Google Classroom to share for our next meeting.