M-Powerment Strategies Reflections
Fall 2016
M-1: Culture of Caring
- Take time to talk about themselves and past experiences in order to access background knowledge when applying new learning
- Class jobs with applications to add to classroom community; each job has required skills;
- Attending outside of school activities
- Sharing about your own life and interests
- Class compliments/Kindness compaign - share positive compliments about nice things students do during the week; students come up with compliments for their classmates; recognizing each other
M-2: High Expectations
- Red/Green structure for bathroom use
- Always pushing students to do better and have high expectations of themselves
- Tracking progress using pre/post tests with student reflection
- Plan, Do, Study, Act Plan for standards - allows student ownership of learning and learning path
M-3: Standards-Aligned Lessons
- PLCs
- Using unpacking and TCOE bookmarks