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Welcome to Cluster Week 4

Welcome to Cluster Week 4. Last week we used socrative in a space race game…This week we are going to see a another way for students to ask questions that drive Instruction. Go to http://drgardner.edublogs.org

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Welcome to Cluster Week 4

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  1. Welcome to Cluster Week 4 Last week we used socrative in a space race game…This week we are going to see a another way for students to ask questions that drive Instruction. Go to http://drgardner.edublogs.org Find Tap-MHS page and go to Today’s Meet Link (http://todaysmeet.com/TapMHS)… Sign in and tell us something interesting about your undergrad. experience…

  2. New Learning: The BackchannelToday’s Meet • Talk. Listen. • TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchanneland connect with your audience in realtime. • Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

  3. Thanks to Doug Porter for the opening suggestion of how NOT to memorize student names… • Michael reveals his secret for remembering names… http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/lecture-circuit/994221/

  4. MHS School-Wide Goal2011-2012 By May of 2012, student achievement on the English 10 ECA state test will increase as follows: Pass+ from 0% to 5% Pass from 52% to 57%

  5. Yearly Cluster Goal • By May, 2012, all students will improve performance on the English 10 ECA state test by at least 10% on reading comprehension.

  6. Cluster Cycle #1 Goal • By the end of the cycle, teachers will effectively implement indicators from the TAP Instructional Rubric as measured by the leadership team from observation of classroom instruction.

  7. Animoto demo…. • Download pictures/videos…(can be done in variety of ways) • Create video – choose their music or your own • http://animoto.com/play/S35Lyq4Bm5WmKTuZxDDt0g

  8. Checklist for Classroom Environment • The following checklist from the site can be used for self-evaluation of a classroom’s environment. • Various areas of the classroom are created for use in a variety of activities. • Desks or general seating is arranged so that the teachers can easily get to each student. • The lighting in the room is adequate. • The room temperature is generally moderate to cool. Warm classrooms lead students to be more lethargic, inattentive, and consequently bored and disruptive. • The entrance to your room does not cause distractions to students during lessons. • There is a place in your classroom, away from the rest of the class, where you can have a private conversation or give a private reprimand to an individual student. • The blackboard is visible to all students during lessons and is clean and uncluttered. • Bulletin boards are attractive and not cluttered with “old work.” • The room has just the amount of furniture that is functional and does not contain useless or nonessential furnishings. • The seating arrangement is designed in an orderly way so that the organization of the seats helps the students to feel more organized. • Study carrels are used only in conjunction with other types of seating arrangements.

  9. Self-Observe or Peer Observe • Is the room welcoming? • What evidence is there that indicates that it is? • Is it conducive to student independence; e.g. can they get their own paper? • Is the pencil sharpener located in a logical place? • Are all the students’ work posted on the bulletin boards, or just the best? • Is the room arranged to promote individual and group work? • Can the classroom accommodate different grouping patterns? • Is the information students need posted so they can use it? E.g. the standards, the goals for the day, the schedule/agenda.

  10. Cluster Meeting Outcomes: • Cluster members will connect to prior learning (Learning Environment rubric indicators.) • Cluster members will analyze descriptors in all four indicators of the Learning Environment Domain and find a strategy for each that they will record and try in their own classroom. • Cluster Members will be shown Animoto in detail; extra prize for those who create an animoto for their classes at any time during the first semester!

  11. Expectations for next week… • What are the biggest challenges to having your classroom set up as you would like? • Share your best bulletin board ideas – or favorite ways of displaying student work. • Check out Ted Talks Video on Week 3 Glog

  12. Just for Fun…

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