Good Things Newsletter
September 2017
This Month's M-Powerment Focus is M-1
Special Thanks To.....
And to our Office and Guidance Staffs...
You've Been Busted!
Our teachers have been setting September on Fire with great instruction!
Ally Davis and Jamie Carr : Learning Lab
Rebecca Ross: CTE
Michael Kelley: Social Studies
Lisa Oliver: Math
Lisa Oliver did a collaborative math game with her Pre-Calc students for the unit circle. Teams had to practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills to team-solve increasingly difficult problem sets in a kinesthetic race that played on their competitive natures. Students had to rely on each other for the answers which allowed all students to be actively engaged in the learning. The increasing rigor of the 4 problem sets provided differentiated levels of difficulty for students at their own pace.
Caroline Hocutt: World Languages
Caroline Hocutt did a unit with her French 5 students on the Medieval Era looking at literature and architecture in particular. For one activity she gave them a Voicethread where they had to view pictures of castles and describe its function, architectural style and give an opinion in French. Students then listened to each other's responses to incorporate their listening, speaking, and cultural standards.
Vertalia Thomas and Tracey Hanson
Donald Peters: The Arts
Lucy Privette: PE
Ami Bauer: Science
Why We Do What We Do...PIP's Journey
Instructional and Tech Strategies
Instructional Strategy Highlight: Entry and Exit Tickets
Why are bell ringers so important?
- Having a bell ringer for the beginning of your class allows the teacher to immediately gain control of the students. If students have a task to begin working on when they enter your classroom, not only are they focused when it's time for class to start, but they are also engaged in the material for that day. Check out this link for a variety of Digital Bell-Ringer Activities.
"I know exit tickets are important, but I always run out of time":
- It's so easy when you are teaching and in the moment to teach right up to the bell. That's a mark of a great teacher! Exit tickets are meant to be a quick take away from that day's lesson ----5 minutes or less- of the class period--and a way to inform you the teacher if you students are "getting it" or not. Consider trying some of these quick exit ticket ideas in your lesson.
Literacy Strategy: Vocabulary and Writing Development Across the Contents
Tech Takeout
News from the Media Center
Congratulations to Sophomore Book Club member McKenzie Griffin for reading 28,026 pages over the summer! Thanks to her achievement, MHS was recently awarded the Mooresville Public Library’s Summer Reading Champion trophy for the highest student participation.
Attention all writers and illustrators. Has your work been published in a book or an article? If so, please let us know, as we want to obtain a copy of your book or article for the MHS Media Center’s collection. We’ll also ask you to sign this work for us.