Direct, Systematic Instruction
Fantastic Student Engagement
Reading & Math Instruction
PLCs
The Leader in Me
100
This is posted daily, specific to one day, drives instruction, and is aligned to standards.
What is the Topic and Do? (or daily objective)
100
These maximize instructional time and should be modeled and practiced repeatedly in the first week of school.
What are routines and procedures?
100
This refers to carefully re-reading challenging texts and marking it with symbols and/or notes.
What is close reading or annotating the text?
100
When we believe that intelligence can be developed, embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and see effort as the path to mastery we have this paradigm/world view that lead to greater achievement.
What is Growth Mindset?
100
Like having a growth mindset, this is the thing to change if you want to make really big "quantum" changes in your effectiveness/life. (Hint: Refers to World View, Not to Habits)
What is your paradigm?
200
These are the posted steps that guide students to successfully master the objective
What is the Task Analysis?
200
This is our slogan that encourages students NOT to do something - so that all students stay engaged, knowing they might be called upon to answer a question.
What is "No Hand-Raising!"
200
These are examples of strategies found in our staff handbook that give all students opportunities to read a passage rather than "Round Robin" which only calls on one student at a time to be explicitly engaged (name at least two strategies).
What are choral reading, partner reading, cloze reading, and endless loop?
200
Once a month, instead of meeting on Wednesday afternoon with our grade level team we will meet with this group of people from various grade levels.
What is our vertical PLC (departmentalized)?
200
This is the habit that can be described as "carrying your own weather."
What is Be Proactive?
300
This ensures that the lesson is appropriate for learning that can reasonably take place in one lesson (not overly long or too easy).
What is pacing, chunking, or segmenting for learning?
300
This refers to an interval of 5-7 seconds before a teacher calls on a non-volunteer to answer or respond.
What is wait time (or think time)?
300
These are practical math word problems that could involve situations at the grocery store or a restaurant - for example.
What are real world problems or problems that have personal relevance to students?
300
Our PLCs are results-oriented teams that will focus on the results of these each week to determine which students need re-teaching and which need enrichment.
What are weekly CFAs or Common Formative Assessments?
300
We practice this habit when look for a 3rd alternative that is much better than what any one person could have created on his own.
What is Synergize?
400
These posted terms are also a required element on the Task Analysis template. (Hint: Students can also learn these through Frayer Models and sentence stems).
What is Academic Vocabulary?
400
These are great low-tech tools that allows the teacher to quickly scan and check for understanding of the entire class.
What are white boards?
400
These are the types of math problems that the common core often asks students to solve - by using one calculation to solve another calculation.
What are Multi-Step math problems?
400
In this Thinking Maps program, our teachers will be implementing mini-lessons and assigning an independent piece of writing every 4 weeks as their students analyze and write about informational texts.
What is Write from the Beginning and Beyond?
400
This word refers to how/where/when we teach the 7 habits to our students.
What is Ubiquitously?
500
Tree, circle, double bubble, and flow are just a few examples of these tools that help children think and visualize concepts.
What are Thinking Maps?
500
These are also low-tech tools that our teachers use to keep all students accountable when they ask the whole class questions following wait time or think time.
What are popsicle sticks?
500
This refers to time spent discussing discussing math concepts, reasoning about math, examining different ways to solve problems, and learning from our peers' explanations
What are Number Talks ?
500
Like emptying luggage after a vacation, PLCs will need to do this as they plan for instruction and make sure their CFAs are effective and properly aligned.
What is "Unpacking the Standards" ?
500
This is the tool that our students will use during student-lead conferences to show their parents their goals and progress.
What are Data Binders?
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