Thunderbird Weekly
Week of October 23
Principal
Congratulation to the band. They placed 1st place in division 3A with a score of 74.75 at the Frontier: Titan March Band Invitational Competition on Saturday. We also received the high percussion score in our division.
Congratulations to Ashley Dela Cruz and Elena Medina. They qualified for All -Area for doubles in Tennis.
As a reminder, please continue moving forward and focusing on the following important points:
- Please make sure Learning Objectives are clearly posted for students to view.
- Students are actively engaged in lesson.
- We are circulating the classroom. More importantly during independent practice and assessment. We want to be able to monitor student progress as they work through their in-class independent assignments. This also reduces the possibilities of students trying to get off task.
Counseling Department
- Reviewing 1st Quarter grades with students and monitoring progress.
- Academic plans for freshmen students are in progress.
Athletic Schedule
Learning Director
Mr. Robles sent following message on email on Instructional Focus: Random Selection.
Our new instructional focus for these next couple weeks will be using Random Selection to call on students. This is a formative assessment strategy that helps hold all students accountable for the answer. I have seen several of you already use a deck of cards or even sticks with student names or numbers. Please continue this strategy. Random selection will ultimately help check for understanding, hold all students accountable for the answer, and will eliminate one student from dominating the class discussion. After calling on a few random students, we also encourage you to allow other students to volunteer an answer.
Additionally, please continue with past instructional focus of Also continue with the collection of expected instructional strategies that you have mastered up until this point
- Posting and reviewing learning objectives
- Allowing for think time/wait time after asking a question.
Lastly, please make sure that we are circulating the classroom. More importantly during student independent practice. As we circulate, it allows us to monitor student progress, check for understanding, reduce the possibility of students getting of task or misbehaving.
We are doing an excellent job, please keep it up. If you have any questions, need assistance, or would like us to model strategies, please let me know.
Uriel Robles Jr
Learning Director
Robert F. Kennedy High School
661-720-5113
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