TMS Connect
September 8th, 2023
Happenings around TMS
Social Studies Presentation
Division with Decimals
Data Tracking
TMS Appreciation Team!
TMS Intervention Periods
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What are Intervention Periods?
School schedules are busy, requiring administrators, teachers, and parents to find time to increase student achievement and support struggling students. Intervention periods offer unique benefits such as targeted support, identifying students for accommodations, building rapport, promoting student voice, monitoring progress, improving skills in a low-stakes environment, and providing teachers extra time to fill learning gaps.
In order for our students to receive additional instruction without interfering with the core curriculum, our intervention period takes place during homeroom (8:00–8:30) at the beginning of the day. To make them most effective, students are moved from their "normal" homeroom for the weeks that they are pulled so as to maximize the time. While direct instruction and support are provided on Tuesdays and Thursdays, the intervention period is essentially a "class" that meets during the school day where students can receive targeted academic support, gain confidence, and overcome current challenges.
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How are Intervention Period students identified?The iReady diagnostic is our primary means of identifying students. Both the English and Math diagnostic tests are able to show students' proficiency in a variety of topics (for example, the math test identifies students' proficiency in Number and Operations, Algebra and Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data, and Geometry). Our MS teachers design intervention “rounds” to be 4-6 weeks in length, and pull students who have gaps in specific areas to target those gaps in knowledge and, in the end, accelerate those students' learning in that area. Students who are identified for Intervention Periods are straight A students, students who struggle with missing work, athletes, special education recipients…you name it! What they all share is a gap in proficiency in a particular area, and teachers who want to close that gap in a targeted way!
My Closet
(Repeat) Being Prepared for School: iPads Charged and Ready!
Please help us help our students to be "ready to go" by encouraging your child to have their iPad charged before bed, so that we can maximize learning at TMS!
(Repeat) TMS Picture Day is September 19th!
Upcoming Dates
9/12 - School Board Meeting
9/13 - Staff PD Day (No Students)
9/19 - TMS Picture Day
10/9 - School Board Meeting
10/10 - End of 1st 9 Weeks
10/11 - Parent Teacher Conferences
10/18-10/20 - Fall Break
11/13 - School Board Meeting
11/22 - 11/24 - Thanksgiving Break
12/5 - Winter Band Concert
12/11 - School Board Meeting
12/20 - Last day of the first semester
12/21 - 1/3 - Winter Break
Tipton Middle School
Email: jayars@tcsc.k12.in.us
Website: https://www.tcsc.k12.in.us/tms
Location: 817 South Main Street, Tipton, IN, USA
Phone: (765) 675.7521