Hawk Herald
News and Notes for Teachers- May 13
Dear Staff
Hope everyone who celebrates Mother;s Day had a great day. Proud to be HSD was on Saturday and there was a nice turnout.
May Fete is this week. (see below). Justin will be in the building on Monday.
Sixth graders will be visiting from our feeder schools( WLH,WH,MB), on Thursday and we have a dance on Friday. Another busy week ahead.
Have a great week,
Mary
You can also find the newsletter on the staff site: Staff Site
May Fete
Monday: “Born to be Wild” Animal Print
Tuesday: “You Can’t Stop the Beat” Retro Day
Wednesday: “YMCA” Sports Day
Thursday: “Old Town Road” Western Day
Friday: “7 Rings” Fancy Fashion Day
Justin Welch
Leadership meeting
Academic Seminar
Climate and Culture
Walkthroughs and conversations
Dance
Let Jenae know if you can chaperone
Meetings and Events
Monday-13 Justin visits
- Advisory Calendar
- ELL meeting 1:30
- Climate and Culture Meeting 3:30 rm229
Tuesday-14
- Team Meeting 7th
- Health Curriculum alignment(Alvarez,Mendez,Vera out)
Wednesday-15
- Academic Seminar 7:50 in 229
- Attendance Meeting 10:10
- Team Meeting 8th
- 6th graders visit 9:00-10:45
Friday-17 Jose at Taking It Up
- SST 8:00
- Coaches meeting 1:30
- Dance 6-8
Climate and Culture
This survey is meant to get feedback from staff before our discipline plan is completed in June. This is your chance to give input.
Discipline surveyHow to Make Learning Stick
In this article in School Administrator, Henry Roediger (University of Washington/St. Louis) and Peter Brown (an independent writer) lament the fact that many students use ineffective study strategies, including:
- Underlining and highlighting important material;
- Reading and rereading;
- Studying only one block of information at a time (for example, fractions);
- Studying for long periods of time (cramming just before an exam);
- Pulling all-nighters.
Why don’t these strategies get information into long-term memory? Because none of them make students grapple with the underlying content, and all of them tend to make students overconfident about what they’ve mastered. “Familiarity with the text creates an illusion of knowing,” say Roediger and Brown, “and studies show the content does not stick.” In addition, neuroscientists have found that sleep after studying is important to consolidating memories.
This means teachers have a double challenge: they have to teach their subject matter, and they have to wean students from ineffective strategies and teach them what cognitive scientists have discovered about how to study in smarter ways. Some practices that work:
- Self-quizzing;
- Paraphrasing and reflecting on material;
- Spacing short but intense study sessions over time;
- Mixing up topics and subjects during studying (sometimes called interleaving);
- Getting enough sleep.
Teachers should also apply these pedagogical principles on a daily basis:
- Pre-testing before a teaching unit to prime students’ brains for what’s coming and identify gaps in knowledge and skills;
- Frequent low-stakes quizzing (“retrieval practice”) with immediate feedback and correction;
- Less lecturing, more challenging students to puzzle out new material and put it in their own words;
- Getting students working in pairs or small groups to construct their own understanding of new material;
- Having students write to understand.
Link to Erin's Law Lessons
Academic Seminar: Language Scaffolds and Differentiation
Language Central
We will be looking at this site during academic seminar on Wednesday
A place to understand, create and support language for access to learning.
Link: Language Objective Generator
Sample:
South Meadows Middle School
Email: mendezm@hsd.k12.or.us
Website: http://schools.hsd.k12.or.us/southmeadows
Location: 4690 Southeast Davis Road, Hillsboro, OR, United States
Phone: 503-844-1220
Facebook: facebook.com/SouthMeadowsMiddleSchool