District ELA PD
True or False: It is solely the English Language Arts Teacher's job to ensure students are literate.
False. It is every teacher's job to ensure students become more literate in each content area (science, social studies, math, art, music, PE, STEM etc)
In the acronym LEARNS, the L stands for Linking. Which way shows how a teacher can link new learning to prior knowledge?
a. Ask what do students know about energy before beginning a unit on Energy and Matter.
b. Look up the definition of energy in the dictionary.
a. Ask what do students know about energy before beginning a unit on Energy and Matter.
True or False: The MTSS Umbrella includes the whole child instead of just data about the child.
True
What day of the week are most staff meetings held?
Wednesday
In Home Alone (1990), where were the McCallister's going on vacation when they left Kevin behind?
Paris
What are the components that determine text complexity? (Hints: Two Q's; R and T; the visual is a triangle).
Qualitative, Quantitative, Reader and Task
Before beginning a lesson on multiplying fractions, a teacher poses the problem that he needs to make trail mix for the class, but his recipe only makes 8 servings, but he has to feed 16 people. He displays the recipe that contains fractions, the ingredients and measuring cups. What could he do next to make this lesson even more sticky?
Example answer: Ask how he can make enough trail mix for his class. Model how to double a simple fraction like one half and have the students "test" the multiplication of the fraction.
How many weeks of intervention should a student have before a teacher can refer for testing?
10
If you will be absent, the first thing you should do is?
Contact Mr. Gray
True or False: Both male and female reindeer have antlers
True. They both shed them annually.
Which model from ELA PD Session 4 (and LETRS) shows how skilled reading relies on the intertwining of language comprehension and word recognition? Hint: Each strand represents a specific skill. They work together gradually strengthening to create fluent, meaningful reading.
Scarborough's Reading Rope or The Reading Rope
Which teacher has the stickiest strategy?
Teacher A: Before reading a story that takes place in a big city, they show pictures of tall buildings, busy streets and the subway to help build background knowledge.
Teacher B: While learning about types of rocks, the teacher has students compare and contrast different types of rocks with a Triple Venn Diagram.
Teacher C: While teaching about Explorers and Native American interactions, the teacher uses a simulation in which students from another class come in and begin to rummage through their desks and move things around in their classroom. They are trying to complete a normal task, but they cannot because the students in the other class took all their pencils.
Teacher C: They made a lesson that students could anchor new learning, it was novel (never been done before), it was presented as a story, it is emotional. It uses 4 of the 6 strategies to make lessons stickier: Emotions, Anchor, Novelty and Story
If a student is making good progress in intervention and the teacher is beginning to see improvement with their skills in class, what instructional decisions should we do as an MTSS team?
a. take the student out of intervention
b. leave the student in the same intervention
c. ask questions and look deeper at what the student is mastering and what they are not to determine next steps
c. ask questions and look deeper at what the student is mastering and what they are not to determine next steps
You should return a parent phone call within how many hours?
48
In the 1964 claymation movie, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, what did the elf, Hermey want to be?
A dentist
What do Scarborough's Reading Rope and the Simple View of Reading have in common?
They both focus on language comprehension and decoding skills.
Which part of the LEARNS acronym incorporates all the rest of the letters?
L-Linking
E-Emotions
A-Anchor
R-Repetition
N-Novelty
S-Story
S-Story
The Strengths and Concerns section must be filled out completely by the general education teacher(s).
What does the accommodation Technology Assisted Test Read Aloud in English mean?
The student gets headphones to use to listen to the test questions and answers read aloud in English by the computer.
What is the first rule of the Code of Elves in the movie Elf?
Treat Everyday Like Christmas
What task could you implement to increase the text complexity of Town Mouse and Country Mouse?
Answers will vary, but should be an upper level of DOK other than recall and understanding (application, evaluation, creation, synthesizing new information).
How are Making Learning Sticky and Rigorous teaching similar?
a. They both help students apply new learning to different situations.
b. They both help students recall information quickly.
a. They both help students apply new learning to different situations.
What should you do if no one in your intervention is making progress towards their goals?
Reflect on how you are implementing the intervention (instruction),what you are providing in the intervention (curriculum) and the environment of the intervention. (ICE)
What is the minimum amount of weeks prior to your trip to let the cafeteria know you will need lunches (lunch time changes) for your field trip?
2 weeks
How many gifts in total were given in the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas?
364