Montessori Minute
December 15, 2017
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all
Return Days
On Friday, January 5th, we will have a K-6 Professional Development Day at the Middle School. We should be receiving more information from Beth Nelson today or early next week.
PLCs--last week and next week
Final Week before Christmas!
APL Tip of the Week
When using closure, remember that it's the STUDENTS (not you!) who need to summarize what they think they've learned.
Closure's primary focus is to reinforce essential content, concepts, and skills by providing for another repetition of that content, concept and skill!
For more information about closure, check out pages 132-134 of Teaching: The Book.
By the way, the group of teachers who have spent much of first semster working on an Instructional Model for NPS presented at our last Building Leadership Team meeting at Central Office. I was impressed with what they've done and we should be ready to roll our our "new" model next fall. I put "new" in parenthesis because there's nothing new in the new model, but it's going to be nice to have something that is "ours" that we can brand, implement, and build on.