Welcome!

1. Welcome! • Please find your school name and introduce yourself to the people at your table. • If you teach in more than one school, sit at the school you are at the most. • Make a nametag for yourself.

2. Logistics • Lunch will be provided each day. • Bathrooms are out in the • You have a copy of the agenda in your new teacher folder.

3. Grounding: Interactive Nametags Goal for the upcoming school year. The place where you spent your happiest summer. NAME The quality you value most in other people (one word) The most significant year in your life. The name of your favorite teacher or mentor.

4. Interactive Nametag: Example Park Rapids, MN Increase student growth by providing excellent coaching. Heather Willman Kindness Monica Bowler 2003

5. Grounding: Interactive Nametags Goal for the upcoming school year. The place where you spent your happiest summer. NAME The quality you value most in other people (one word) The most significant year in your life. The name of your favorite teacher or mentor.

6. Table Share • Choose one part of your nametag to share with the people at your table. • The person with the shortest hair should go first!

7. Pair Share • Talk with an elbow partner about how you might use this with students on the first day of school. • Consider writing this on your calendar for September 3 as an opening day activity.

8. Superintendent and Cabinet Welcome • See your who’s who list in your new teacher survival handbook.

9. Creating a Positive Learning Environment The nuts and bolts of great teaching

13. Learning Targets You will: • Learn about and implement researched-based practices regarding a positive learning environment. • Plan for a successfully managed classroom so your student achievement will soar. • Have a joyful first year in Rochester and love your job.

14. Think/Pair/Share • Think for 30 seconds about a positive learning environment that you’ve experienced. • Find a partner. Stare at them so they know you are pairs. • Talk to your partner about what was taking place in this environment.

15. Relationships • “The quality of teacher–student relationships is the keystone for all other aspects of classroom management.” Marzano and Marzano, Dimensions of Learning • No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship. James Comer, 1995

16. Why focus on relationships? • Master teachers delay going to the textbook until a bond has been established with students. • ___KunjufuBlack Students, Middle Class Teachers. • A fundamental question for a student is ‘Does my teacher like me?’ Given a rigorous, aligned curriculum, the answer to that simple question is our best predictor of student achievement.” • —Alice Terry, More Life Through Management

17. Appointment Clocks • One tried and true method for building relationships is setting up student appointment clocks. • Find the handout in your folder with the appointment clock on it. • For your 12 o’clock appointment, please find someone who has the same number of sisters as you. • I’ll model this!

18. Appointment Clocks • For your 3 o’clock partner, find someone who has the same numbers of pets as you. • When you find a partner, sign each other’s 3 o’clock line and sit down.

19. Appointment Clocks • For your six o’clock partner, find someone who is approximately the same height as you. • Trade papers, sign, and be seated in your original spot.

20. Group Huddle How might this appointment clock come in handy throughout the year? How would you organize so students don’t lose these? How would you handle the reluctant or shy student who has trouble socializing?

21. M and M Game • Find your 12 o’ clock appointment and sit next to them. • I will model a great relationship building game that you can use to get to know your students. • Next, you will try this with your partner.

22. M and M Game For each m and m you have, you must tell something about yourself. No eating until you’ve shared with your partner.

23. M and M Game Your Turn • Send the person from your pair who is the shortest up to get your m and ms. • You have five minutes to share your information and eat your m and ms.

24. Web Resources • http://www.rochester.k12.mn.us • Go to academics, reading and Management Ideas for other ideas.

25. Research Review • Read the research regarding learning environment. Use these codes as you are reading: Important Question Connection

26. Pair Share • Find your 3 o’clock partner and share the things you’ve coded. • The person who has the oldest car should share first.

27. Review the Rubric • Review the rubric for the areas of learning environment. This is what your principal will be looking for when they observe.

28. LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PhocuseD On Learning

29. Effective teachers develop procedures for recurring situations. Look at the procedures to consider handout. Take time to talk through your procedures for each scenario. Be prepared to share your ideas with the group. http://www.online-stopwatch.com/full-screen-stopwatch/

30. Numbered Heads • Number yourselves at your table 1-6 • I will read the question discussed and if I call your number you will give us one idea that your group talked about.

31. Question 1 • What should students do when they come into class?

32. Numbered Heads Share Out http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/dice/

33. Effective teachers begin with an assignment on the board. • This should be short, something students can complete in 3 minutes or less. • This should be an independent activity needing no teacher direction. • Students should be given a task to do when finished. While students are completing activity teachers can take attendance.

34. First Day Bellwork Example • Write your name on the name tent on your desk. • Add a picture or visual that represents you. • When you are finished read the one page introduction of me, your teacher!

35. Examples from later in the year

37. Question #3 • What will I use for a signal for attention?

38. Numbered Heads Share Out http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/dice/

39. Effective teachers have a signal for attention that works! • Class, Class, Class • Give me 5 • Clapping • Bell • Counting back from 5

40. Tips for Developing your Signal • Model your signal on the first day. • Have students practice. Let’s try this. • Think about what you will do if students don’t comply. • What should you be doing right now? Thank you. Please do so every time.

41. Lesson Plan Link * You have a calendar in your new teacher folder. Write this in on September 3rd to remind yourself to teach and practice this. Teach signal for attention Practice signal for attention

42. Question #5 • What if students don’t have needed materials?

43. Numbered Heads Share Out http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/dice/

44. Lesson Plan Link • Take out the planning calendar. Put your plan for teaching procedures into your lesson plans. • Choose one or two to teach and practice each day.

45. Today’s Building Work Time • Elementary: • Where will you have your gathering area? • Where will you set up your anchor charts? • Do you have a space to do morning message? • How will you collect student papers? • How might you provide comfortable reading spots for your students? • Prepare locker tags • Where can you display student writing? • Write an introduction letter • Where will you post your standards? • How will your students choose their desks?

46. Today’s Building Work Time • Secondary • Plan activities for building relationships during the first week. • Write an introduction letter. • What will you use for textbook checkout procedures? • Where will you post your learning target for the day? • Prepare your syllabus • How will you arrange your desks? • How will kids know where to sit on the first day? • What will you use for absence procedures? • What will you use for make up work procedures?

47. The Professional Growth Process in Rochester Public Schools • Secondary Teachers: Stay in the cafeteria. • Special Education Teachers: Rocket Center • Elementary Teachers Last Names A-H: Room 3G08 • Elementary Teachers Last Names I-Z: Room 3G07 When you finish, please return to the cafeteria for lunch with your principal.

48. Principal Lunch • At your table, introduce yourself and what grade/content you will be teaching next year. • Use the table tents for discussion topics.

49. Grounding: 3-2-1 Welcome back! On a recipe card, write: Three things you accomplished yesterday. Two things you are eager to try in your setting. One question you have. • Think about how you could use this activity in your classroom.

50. Group Huddle • At your tables share any questions you have left from yesterday’s work time. • If you have any unresolved questions, please see your coach or one of the presenters and we will try to assist you.