Mustang Musings
February 17, 2019
Three Questions Your Students Should Be Able to Answer
2. What is your power goal?
3. How do you practice your power goal?
What are YOU reading?
On Target for IRLA Reading Level
At this point in the year, our students should be at these points:
K-.50
1st-1.50
2nd-2.50
3rd-3.50
4th-4.50
HES creates readers!
On Target for Reading Practice
Bring Your Bling!
ARC Swimming Pool
Are Your Students Growing?
Reading Goal for IOWC-All learners will receive the differentiated support needed to ensure at least a year’s worth of growth.
By now we should see at least 0.5 growth points for students. Things to think about if your students are not showing that growth:
- Have you given them credit in foundational skills for everything they showed they can do during entry?
- Do they have home reading and engagement down?
- Are you able to see those lower students often enough to capture their learning?
- Are they ready for the next level?
Steps calendar for this month
ARC Focus of the Week
- Make sure you are conferencing daily
- Emergency students must be met with at least 3 times in a two week period
- At risk students must be met with at least 2 times in a two week period
- All students should know their power goal and how to practice their power goal independently
- Address phonics gaps first
- Reading steps need to be entered daily.
- Every child should be conferenced with at least one time every 10 days. Students in emergency must be met with more frequently.
- Your conference and the evidence you record should be focused on the student's power goal.
Turnaround Tuesday
from Building Positive Relationships with Students by Lanett W. Brailey
Teach the Teacher
Thinking about the Importance of Relationships...
As adults, we all want to be appreciated for the things that we do and have positive relationships with the people in our lives. Our students want the same things. Remember the saying "Your students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"? It is still true!
This article from NEA gives some great suggestions on how we can build a positive environment in our classrooms.
Paula Denton, author of The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn, believes building relationships creates a more learning-friendly environment. Understanding how the child operates allows the teacher to further individualize their curriculum and find creative ways to help the student successfully grasp the material.
"The more we know about the child the more we can build learning environments and curriculums that are going to work for them," Denton says.
Read the link below and learn ways to build relationships and how it can make your job easier!
Great Ideas!
Katie Miller with ARC had a great idea for expanding student's vocabulary.
Julie Branch has created a print rich environment!
Conferencing Savvy!
Read Across America Week
Suffolk Reading Council
What can I do for you?
- Modeling
- Side-by-side coaching
- Coaching and modeling of using the IRLA
- Round up resources
- Assist with differentiating lessons or materials
- Cover your class so that you can observe a colleague's class
- Cooperatively plan a lesson or series of lessons that meet best practices
- Serve as another pair of hands for a lesson
- Offer strategies for classroom management
- Help you connect with other teachers in the district
- Lend an open ear for a topic of your choice
- Reflect on student learning in your classroom through conversation and observation
- Work collaboratively to bounce ideas off one another to address a concern
- Evaluate new students to guide instruction
Hardy Elementary School
Email: lhenk@iwcs.k12.va.us
Website: http://hes.iwcs.k12.va.us/
Location: 9311 Hardy Circle, Smithfield, VA, United States
Phone: 757-357-3204
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hardy-Elementary-School-205065852892284/
Twitter: @Mrs_Henk