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Cluster Week 6 September 30 – October 1. Norms. Yearly Cluster Goal. By May 2015, all 7 th and 8 th grade students will improve on the ELA and Math Galileo IE Post Test, by at least 10% with a focus on: Skill focus ELA : Key Ideas and Details (Thinking/Problem Solving )
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Yearly Cluster Goal By May 2015, all 7th and 8th grade students will improve on the ELA and Math Galileo IE Post Test, by at least 10% with a focus on: • Skill focus ELA: Key Ideas and Details (Thinking/Problem Solving) • Skill focus in Math: Number Sense (Thinking/Problem Solving)
School Goal-Math By May 2015, student achievement will increase on the Math Galileo IE Post Test as follows: 8th Grade: Meeting/Exceeding will increase from 72 % to 75% Total number of students to move 80 7th Grade: • Meeting/Exceeding will increase from 77 % to 79% • Total number of students to move 63
School Goal-ELA By May 2015, student achievement will increase on the ELA Galileo IE Post Test as follows: 8th Grade: Meeting/Exceeding will increase from 81% to 83% Total number of students to move 60 7th Grade: • Meeting/Exceeding will increase from 95% to 96% • Total number of students to move 12
Cluster Cycle 1 Goal • By the end of the first cluster cycle, teachers will effectively analyze student work and monitor student achievement as evidenced by a 3.0 or higher average score of all teachers in each of the following three TAP rubric indicators: • Standards and Objectives, Assessment, and Student Work.
Evaluate New Learning • Interprets information? • Draws conclusions through writing? • Connects what they learn to prior learning and life experience? • Use Student Analysis & Action Plan template
Identify the Need • Teachers will design student work by developing work with highstudent engagement in mind.
Obtain New Learning ENGAGEMENT
Sell Your Subject? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqIWfZpkWUw • How do you “sell” your subject? • What is the connection to rubric? • What is the connection MTSS?
Student work/assessment Disengaging engaging New ideas Wide variety of sources Deep knowledge base Employing a spirit of inquiry Use of trial and error • Recap without revisit • Completion grading • Grades without feedback • Trivial pursuit questions • Punitive grading
Develop New Learning • Where do you need to develop your lessons where there is high student engagement? • Relationship? Relevance? Expertise? • Differentiation? • Scaffold? Basic to complex • Grouping for learning? • Activities and Materials? New ideas? • Tiered Assignments? http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/15816
Some ideas • Packet ideas(Creativity and Innovation) • ESPN Math—students work together on a problem—one is the writer(problem solver) another is the commentator, the last one is the “color” commentator. • Tiered Assignments http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/every-learner/6680
Closure-exit ticket • How does student engagement look in your classroom? • What will you do for engagement this week?
Apply New Learning • Engage your students! Bring Back • Samples of student work with high engagement