Transcript The Middie Mile

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Introductions
What are your expectations?
High Expectations
The concept of high expectations is
premised on the philosophical and
pedagogical belief that a failure to
hold all students to high
expectations effectively denies
them access to a high-quality
education, since the educational
achievement of students tends to
rise or fall in direct relation to the
expectations placed upon them.
Wisdom from
“Olive to Run”
1. People who are told they are awful or incapable
of doing something will eventually begin believing
they are.
2. Once you pigeon hole someone or even yourself it is
extremely difficult to get out.
3. Having high expectations often yields high results.
4. Patterns and trends are contagious, but you have the choice to change
the direction.
5. Proving those who say you can’t wrong, is one of the best feelings in the
world.
Olive to Run is a teacher’s block that you might enjoy reading.
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Best of the Web
Better ways to read on the web
News ELA
News ELA is a website that offers free
current events and news articles for
teachers and students. They have hundreds
of articles that are updated weekly. Once
you sign up for an account, you can view
the articles online or print them out. You can
even use the scroll bar to change Lexile to
support everyone in your classroom at the
appropriate instructional level. Amazing!
Google Books
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Did you know that you can search Google Books
(http://books.google.com) for full text view only?
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Professional Learning
You can and should teach expectations.
Teaching Expectations
CHAMPs classroom management system
helps you provide instructional procedures
in which your students become
responsible, motivated, and highly
engaged in the specific task at hand.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? I personally
have used the system and it really does
work amazingly well when used
consistently. Ready to learn more?
C.H.A.M.P.S. (For All Ages)
Use the CHAMPs acronym to define detailed behavioral expectations
for EACH instructional approach that you use. Here is the CHAMPs
acronym:
Conversation
Help
Activity
Movement
Participation
Success
Click here for a
classroom example of
a CHAMPS Chart.
Conversation
Conversation: Can students
converse during this activity?
About what? With whom? For
how long? There are lots of
example charts online, such
as this one.
Zero Noise
Level
Spy Talk
Low
Flow
Formal
Normal
Loud
Crowd
Out of
Control
Help
Help: How do students
get your attention for
help? How do students
get questions answered?
What should they do
while they wait for you?
You need to let them
know for each type of
activity.
Activity
Activity: What is the
expected end product
of this activity? What
is the task or
objective? What is
your goal?
Movement
Movement: For what reasons can
students get out of their seats during
this activity? Do they need permission
to do so? Remember, this changes for
the type of activity, so be specific!
Participation
Participation: What
behavior shows that
students are
participating or not
participating? You
need to let your
students know what
this looks like for
each type of activity.
Success
Success: There are no questions for
this one. When CHAMPs
expectations are met, students will be
successful. This is a great time to
share a website called RubiStar
though. Rubrics are another great
way for teachers to be crystal clear
about their expectations!
Early Release Schedule
Who
What
When
Elementary K-5
PLC in Buildings: Goal
Setting for Evaluation
Process. Bring Laptops.
January 29
Highview, Central, MMS
MHS
Central K-5, GATE
Where
3:00-4:30
Teacher Based Team [TBT]
Meetings
6-8 Grade Level
January 29 2:00-3:30
Meetings- Content Area
Go Math 6-8
Instructional Strategy:
Marzano: Writing in
Content Area
(DQ 2: 6, 9, 10)
TBT Meetings in Building
January 29
1:00-3:00
January 29 2:00 -3:30
Buildings
Highview
MHS
Central
Student Services Early Release
Who
What
When
K-5 Intervention Specialists
Central, 6th-8th Intervention
Specialists & ED
Professional Growth Plan
IEP Refresher
January 29, 2014 – 2:45-4:15 High School
January 29, 2014 – 2:20-3:35 Central Office – Learn Lab
HS Intervention Specialists
K-5 ED & MD Teachers
6th-8th MD Teachers
HS MD Teachers
K-5 Paraprofessionals
6th-8th Paraprofessionals
HS Paraprofessionals
Tiered Assessments &
Interventions
Special Ed PLC
Professional Growth Plan
Transition Assessments
Unique – Bring your
computer
Tips for your work with
students
Tips for your work with
students
Special Ed PLC
Where
Central Office – Discover Lab
January 29, 2014 – 1:30-2:45
January 29, 2014 – 3:00-4:15
January 29, 2014 – 2:20-3:35
January 29, 2014 – 1:30-2:45
HS Media Center
High School
MS – Room 153
HS
January 29, 2014 – 3:00-3:45 HS Media Center
January 29, 2014 – 2:20-3:05 HS Media Center
January 29, 2014 – 1:15-2:15 HS Media Center
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Quirky “Quotes”
To inspire, entertain, and intrigue.
Expectations are a form of firstclass truth: If people believe it,
it's true.
— Bill Gates
If you accept the expectations of others,
especially negative ones, then you
never will change the outcome.
—Michael Jordan
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Web 2.0 Tools
The interactive web for you and your students.
Readability
Readability is a browser
extension that eliminates
distractions and turns any
web page into a clean
view for reading now or
later on your computer,
smartphone, or tablet.
Clean Up Cluttered Pages
Save for Reading Later
Great adaptive technology!
Easel.ly
Easel.ly is a tool that enables
teachers to depict information through
visual interpretation. It is very easy to
use, even for those who are not that
certain of their tech skills. Teachers
can use it as an improved way of
presenting their lessons, and students
can use Easel.ly for projects that
showcase what they have learned.
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Announcements
Tell them you heard it on the Middie Mile!
ITBS Algebra
Good luck to all the seventh
graders who will be taking
the ITBS Algebra readiness
test this week. This test
provides educators with the
most up-to-date assessment
of algebra readiness
available. It was designed
and developed according to
NCTM standards.
To finish an
engineering degree
in just four years,
students need to
start algebra in the
eight grade at the
latest.
YouTube
Your friend YouTube will be back online this week, however you might also
want to check out these other Educational Video Website:
SchoolTube is a moderated video-sharing website just for schools.
TeacherTube aggregates thousands of videos from educators, YouTube,
and the rest of the Web. In essence, they are clearinghouses of educational
videos that cover most school subjects, categorized by subject and
education level.
WatchKnowLearn has a review panel of educators and educational video
experts that vet videos from first-time submitters before posting.
The Teaching Channel bills itself as "a video showcase of inspiring and
effective teaching practices," and publishes great original videos with tips
and lesson plans, searchable by subject, grade level, and topic.
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Celebrations
Birthdays and such.
National Handwriting Day
The purpose of National Handwriting Day is to alert the public to the
importance of handwriting. National Handwriting Day is a chance for
all of us to re-explore the purity and power of handwriting.
Despite concern by stationary, paper companies, and
pen and pencil manufacturers that the electronic world
will shrink demand for their products. But, indeed,
statistics show that pen (or pencil) and paper are
alive and well, with a growing demand.
January
23rd
Happy Birthday!
January 26st to February 1st
Mary Mabry
Diane McChesney
Stacey Gibbs
Tammy Daniels
Connie South
Irene Turner
Ernest Withrow
Elizabeth Gross
Melodye Caudill
Holly South
Lori Ott
Joshua Shaffer
Lori Tyla
Deborah Helton
01/26
01/27
01/27
01/28
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01/29
01/29
01/30
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01/31
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Till Next Week…
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