PATRIOT POST

• The creator of the previous board should remove all items from the board by 3:00 PM on the last day of their scheduled display time.

• The board should be neat and display our scholar’s writing to their best advantage.
  

• The board should represent writing from your entire class.
  

• Each board must have a rubric and standard.
  

• Each students’ writing must have Teacher Commentary.

Tuesday, November 5:

• No school for students. Report time 8:30am

Wednesday, November 6:

• Seaborn Lee 4th Grade Writing Units of Study Visit
• Math Prep

Saturday, November 9:

• Session one for level up Saturday School

*Cues music* "Do you know what today is ...

It's our.." semester 1 midpoint mark!

We have officially reached the midpoint for the semester. With us providing all components of Balanced Literacy on a daily basis, targeted small group instruction with sprinkles of intimate conferring, and even responsive RTI interventions ...

we need to rally together to answer these questions:

• HOW WELL ARE YOUR STUDENTS MOVING READING LEVELS?
• HOW DO YOU KNOW?
• WHAT CAN WE DO IF THEY ARE NOT?

We work too hard on a daily basis to wait until December to be surprised students have moved levels. We need to know now so they can practice strategies and receive support at higher reading levels. Let's celebrate throughout the year!

Improving our student agency through questioning and student discourse.

This month, we began looking at how we can leverage the questions we ask our students to build their understanding and encourage them to talk about Math and persevere in solving problems more independently.

Look fors:

Student Discourse

• Teacher facilitates discourse structures to encourage students to present and explain ideas, reasoning, and representations to one another in pairs, small groups, or whole-class discourse.
• Teacher summarizes the mathematics with references to student work and discussion by strategically sharing students' representations and/or solution methods to strengthen all students' understanding of the content.

Purposeful questioning

• Teacher poses purposeful questions to assess and advance students' reasoning and sense making about important mathematical ideas and relationships.

• Unit 2 Post Assessment Data Analysis in grade level PLCs
• 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussion Part 2

Why:

Socratic seminar and philosophical chair are two dialectical methods that promote students’ critical thinking skills. A Socratic seminar is a structured discussion that involves asking and answering questions whereas a philosophical chair is an activity that uses a debate format to discuss two opposing sides of an issue. The key difference between Socratic seminar and philosophical chair is that Socratic seminar is centered on a text whereas philosophical chair is centered on a controversial topic. Costa's levels of thinking provide both students and teachers with the opportunity to examine information from a variety of lenses. It is important to know that critical thinking and questioning permeates into every aspect of the classroom-from the types of questioning that you ask students verbally and on tests to the way that students question each other and think about texts as they are reading.

1. Students should only have academic tools (Resources to assist the student with matriculating through their lessons independently), and 2/3 column notes in their AVID binders.

2. Binders should not have any loose random papers inserted like classroom daily work. This is how the binders becomes disorganized, overwhelming, and ineffective. If you would like a data section in your binder see me for labels. Once you have labels and you would like for your students to keep up with formal assessments, you can place them in the data section.

3. Students should take their binders home EVERY DAY! The binder serves as a home-school connection for the parents and students. We have to train our students to be independent enough to do this.

5. The students should spend about 10 minutes per day organizing their binder ( 7:15-7:45)

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