After the professional learning on 12/07/17, please consider your instructional role and reflect on one of the following based on the content you teach:
Self-Contained Teachers (teach math and ELAR): How does the work that I do in my classroom help my students to be successful in mathematics?
Departmentalized and/or Specialists (only math/science teachers, SPED, Interventionists, Specials, Librarian, etc.): How does the work that I do in my classroom support Dr. Warren’s literacy goals for NISD?
In order for students to achieve their literacy goals they need to be reading and moving through texts. I help with this by helping to match students to books that are appropriate for them and also get them excited about reading.
ReplyDeleteMy students expectations of themselves are high! They know they are great readers and they can solve any math problem if they try! I challenge my students to express their reasoning and feel confident in doing so. Their peers have learned to agree or disagree with the responses and students can accept feedback without getting down on themselves and they are able LEARN from each other.
ReplyDeleteMy students are required to answer in complete word problems. They are not able to just provide an answer, they must state the problem and justify their reasoning. EX: 2 add 3 is 5. They must say the word problem and explain how they got 5. Did they use their fingers, did they count bears, or did they know it was turn around fact? ( yes, they know about those turn around facts)
Each one of my Kindergarten students LOVE to explain their thinking, even if it is completely wrong! I have already learned so many new ways of looking at things!
My students are given a variety of opportunities to express their thinking by standing and commanding or in group work. They are given opportunities to extend their thinking and elaborate on their learning through purposeful questioning. We have learned to love math and the challenge that it brings!
ReplyDeleteThe work I do in my classroom directly correlates with Dr. Warren's early literacy goal that NISD will increase the number of students identified as reading on or above grade level in grades K-3. I have carefully created my schedule so that I will see all students who are significantly below grade level Kinder through 5th. I work with each child on the specific targeted reading skills they are struggling with. This way I am meeting them where they are at and together we are working to move forward. Students are meeting WIGs and showing progress on daily work and CBAs!
ReplyDeleteReading Recovery lends itself to that goal, we pull the lowest performing students in reading and are constantly evaluating our students and recording their achievements. Following each lesson we reevaluate what the next teaching point specific to that student to foster acceleration of his/her reading.
ReplyDeleteMy job as a Reading Recovery teacher strongly supports Dr. Warren's literacy goals. Each day I reflect on students reading and writing and plan lessons to build on their strengths, therefore supporting them to take on their own learning
ReplyDeleteI support Dr. Warren's literacy goals by providing opportunities for students to write and reflect. I use and apply ELA verbage such as summarize, text evidence, infer, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. I stress the importance of reading a word problem carefully and using the CUBES strategy to help them better understand what the question is asking so that they will know what is needed or not needed to solve it. Just like in ELA, the students are expected to underline, circle, and box important information. Also, they justify their thinking verbally and in writing. My students engage in discourse and provide appropriate feedback to each other. In addition, I support my students by using LEAD time to work on WIG and assess progress. Habit Huddle is also used at times for students to work on their WIG and check in with an accountability partner. I am the facilitator for the Newspaper Club. The students were shocked that a math and science teacher is leading this club instead of an ELA teacher. I told them how passionate I am about writing and starting a school newspaper that is mostly student-led.
ReplyDeleteBy teaching my students reading strategies, they can transfer the skills they have learned across multiple subject areas including math.
ReplyDeleteEverything within the classroom is intertwined. Therefore, students have the ability to think critically and respond critically about their learning in all subject areas.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading story problems, we talk about and use our reading strategies to "think through" the problem. When we write (in math and science) we talk a lot about the components of writing and how this writing should not be different than the writing they do with their Language Arts teacher. The language we use mirrors the language they would hear/use in the language arts classroom. All of this together supports Dr. Warren's literacy goal.
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