4th Grade Data Digs 9/8/15
Takeaways, Plus & Deltas
Takeaways
Math
- Create weekly common assessments together
- Each teacher has a way to spiral each TEKS
- Incorporate the lowest TEKS with Problem of the Day with a prior mini lesson
- 3 Weeks Common Assessment this Friday, Mr. Pizarro has it.
- Make sure to include money as a representation of decimals with money and fractions. Include it also as part of Problem of the Day.
- Use the activity that Mr. Tamarez suggested: give two pie charts for students, one divided in hundredths and another in tenths. Students get a number and represent it in both pie charts.
Reading
- Incorporate vocabulary with prefixes, and sufix.
- Engagement with students (vocabulary bunco)
- Incorporate strategic vocabulary and inferencing in Do Now activities aligned with test
Plus
Process - How work gets done, manage & evaluated.
- Structure of the meeting
- Timing
- Data Analysis
Relationships - How people relate to each other and their work.
- I enjoyed the ability to take out data and improve on results
- Planning common assessments to guide better instruction
Results - Accomplish the goal
- We accomplished narrowing down what is it that we need to concentrate on reading to help scholars early in the year.
- We successfully discussed the data from individual classrooms and we were able to come up with strategies to improve our delivery for our students.
- I like how we talked about the needs of the students and the article
- Productive meeting, especially in small groups
Delta
Process - How work gets done, manage & evaluated.
- How will small groups look like in Math?
- What will students be doing?
- Planning more effective small group
- I feel that we could talk for hours about data but feel a little rushed with time
- Provide accurate information on how to teach certain TEKS
Relationships - How people relate to each other and their work.
Results - Accomplish the goal
- More talk about the specific lessons that are going to be introduced to students not mastering the TEKS either through whole group / small group.
- The time goes by so quickly. Wish we had more time for data digging.
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