T: What is your favorite class?
S: Lunch!
Lunch time for students is talk time, relax time, story time and fun time. It's also one of my favorite times to work with big portions of the student body, every day!
Blog #8
Drills,10% and From Google Docs to Google Class!?
Winfield Middle School is becoming “that”
school. I will start saving Bens for our
impending celebration. The students have also asked that the "Gray become
Pink." You may have heard “Pink is the
new Gray” referring to me turning my gray pink!
If we meet goals, such as attendance, behavior and academics, my gray
will go Pink and Mixs’ non-gray will go purple.
We have not finished articulating the goals yet. With our current climate, I see us reaching
goals! Great start. Thank you.
Summary To Do List:
1. Exit
Slip from NEE**
3. Club
Sign up in Ac Lab***
Lock Down, Intruder Drill or Stay Put?
The Intruder Drill took 2:01 minutes. The longest part was taking the walk through
the buildings. Lights were off, doors
were locked and the Deputy gave the PE Dept a great shout for completing the
drill so quickly! Today’s Intruder Drill
is separate than the Lock-Down Drill,
that keeps everybody in their present location and NOT out in the halls. We
also may do another variation called “Stay
Put status” for a sustained situation where a distant threat may exist but
we can proceed teaching while remaining diligent. Doors would be locked but we could continue
with lights on working. Students would be released through the office intercom. Please let me know if that is clear.
Friday, September 4th will be the end of the first 10% of the school
year. We have laid out great routines.
Students are engaged and teachers are creating lessons that allow the students to
participate, interact, talk and wrestle with the content.
Dessert First: After Ms. Guile read her
excerpt Wednesday, we went right into the NEE indicator activity. Thanks for being patient while we worked out
the details on the skits. It was great
to see examples depicting the various levels of the indicators. It was also fun to let everyone contribute
and share in various roles and capacities.
Please ensure you complete the feedback on the Google
Docs. I took over the part Beth and
Sheri were supposed to do. Sorry.
Speaking of Google Docs: Ms Hines has set up a Google Class for all our
staff work, trying to keep up with Daugherty.
Let’s look there for our mutual cloud documents. We can use it like a college class
blackboard. Try this link from the
Chrome Browser and see if you can join our class. https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MjA3MDY1NzAz
To join a new
class when logged in as Firstlast@winfieldriv.us CLASS CODE: uuyoz6
Daugherty is
already in! Other buildings are watching
us and trying to keep up. Let’s not get
too far ahead but steadily work though our details.
Club Day Details: We are still trying to align details
surrounding our Club Days but we don’t want to rush into something not yet
completed or thoroughly planned. Let’s
have the 8th graders pick their club preferences, both teachers and
students on Monday, 7th on Tuesday and 6th on Wednesday. See the new Google Class forms above for
details. Our current best, but not
perfect day, is the last Wednesday of the month. Students may go to a club if they are
pre-registered, in good standing and have all their assignments finished. ***
As teachers, we bring out all the stops and try to really enjoy ourselves. Buffalo anything, Mexican everything and homemade desserts!
Tardy Tally – Please do NOT use SIS to log tardies at this
time. Please, use a separate grade book
till notified otherwise.
UPCOMING AGENDA
Friday:
Our PBiS rep is slated for today.
Details will follow.
Labor Day: Be careful but have
fun. No binder team this week.
Tuesday: I will have an admin meeting at central office. It may take a while. We have a guest from NEE. We may try and gather more details on the UOI
and our corresponding obligations.
*Wednesday: HIGHJACKING: We are not able
to meet Monday and I will be in meetings most of Tuesday. Would Binder Teams meet on Tuesday and do one
thing, please? Review this document together and if teams are able to finish action
plans great! If Binder Teams are not
able to finish action plans, I may need to meet with teams on Wednesday. If your team gets the
PLANNING portions completed at the bottom of the page, we could cancel our Wednesday
High- jacking meeting! Just let me know
ahead of time.
First football game, also at
Home v Warrenton. Wed PM
Thursday: Building
Action Plans are due to Central Office.
Those are the lower portion to these goals we looked at Wednesday. Please look into tabbed portions and adjust
it accordingly. Thanks.
There is also a Superintendents
Parent Meeting on Thursday at Central Office at 6:00pm.
Friday: Currently clear
Upcoming: PBiS for Sept 15th,
AM in the Library. Details to follow.
1.2
Cognitive Engagement
1. Ineffective; give instructions; students left to work w/o appropriate
guidance
2. Appropriate, MOST students; active engagement (perhaps one
student at a time, but all may answer)
3. Effective, ALL students; allowed work time and students engagement
required/needed; different strategies
5.1
Affected Engagement
1. Few strategies, lack of care, students appear to do what they want
2. Some success, includes a 'few' students that are engaged; external
motivation?
3. Multiple strategies, student centered, appear motivated; intrinsic
motivation; inspiring lesson
5.2
Behavioral Engagement
1. Few; teacher may be unprepared; ineffective time management
2. Some; procedures given (no processing time); teacher is managing
time rather than understanding
3. Most; students know routines/ procedures; working and on task;
teacher monitors & checks for understanding; uses transitions effectively
7.4
Formative Assessment
1. Seldom; poor quality assessment with no time for re-teach or
'think-time;' teacher may not observe understanding
2. Occasionally/ Quick; assessment given, but students are left to
their own; no follow-up
3. Often; checked for understanding multiple times; had a visual;
ALL students involved
Tom McCracken
Ancora Imparo
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