Maura Hammond:
We viewed a suicide prevention video. Fulton County will implement this program at all levels (elementary, middle, high). Elementary will have a modified version.
Acknowledge
Care
Tell
http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Epipen training:
Everyone must do this. Please go to the clinic and practice doing the epipen.
Field trip:
Need to choose a new program since the bill/law program is no more.
Teacher Keys:
Please keep a record of your communications (phone calls, notes, website, etc.)
5th grade coming to our classrooms @ 10am on Oct. 2 to discuss mock election.
Curriculum Map check:
SS performance assessment: We discussed giving a "tree" performance assessment. Laura will create this for us.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
PLC-September 18, 2012
MountainPark Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda
TuesdaySep 18th, 2012
Whatto bring: math unit 1assessment data and math unit 2 pre-assessment data (if collected), calendarand timeline for math unit 1 that we started on Thursday
ReviewNorms
Be Respectful, Be punctualand prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be“pollution” be a solutionJ
AGENDA:
Pacing-Look at curriculum map
Reading-Common summative assessment for Winn Dixie?
Mathunit 2 with Sarah!
· Review/Unpackstandards
· Backwarddesign – what do we want students to know, understand and be able to do?
&how do we get there?
· Pacing
*common formative assessment this Friday?
Looking at Data –
Mathunit 2 pre-assessment
Protocols– Notice & Wonder
Math unit 1 assessment
Protocols– Notice & Wonder
· Determineflexible grouping for differentiation?
· Planfor remediation and enrichment- should we spiral skills back into unit 2?
*Break into math groups forunit 2 planning…
Tellus Museum:
Nov. 8/9 Scales/Corson will go on Thursday
All other classes on Friday
Thank you Meghan!
**ACTIONITEMS – NEXT MEETING:
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
PLC-September 11, 2012
Review Norms
Be Respectful
Be punctual and prepared
Assume goodwill and be positive
Be fully present
Don't be pollution be a solution
Agenda items:
-What is a PLC? See handout. Let's work as a team.
-Study guide reminder. Let's make our geared more toward "what kids should know" instead of a copy of the test.
-Vocab list reminder: vocabulary list tests. Administer and review with children. These are words used in our units. Go over the vocabulary and then turn in to the office.
-Math assessment issue:
-Training tomorrow-roots of democracy assessment (pull 2/3 students' test if you want to offer suggestions)
Standards Based Report Card:
April Hardy visited us to speak to us about the SBRC.
Think/Talk about: What is mastery? How do you know when a student has mastered a standard?
We will no longer have progress skills checklists.
NE (not evaluated) will be used for areas not graded at a specific time.
See resource handouts for math and ela given out at the meeting:
-mastery rubric
-math reporting statements
-ela reporting statements
-report card example
Send April questions you may have about these report cards.
Action Item: We need to determine What does mastery look like? How do you know when a student mastered a standard? What will we use?
Laura printed a kid friendly standards sheet and put it in your box. You can put this in your planning notebook.
-Curriculum map check
Check the curriculum map for updates we made today.
If you need help on a specific area, talk to a teammate to get ideas.
Option for reading: A River Ran Wild
We discussed the science habitat unit assessment.
Unit/Lesson Planning:
We will meet Thursday during planning to plan for unit 2 math-break apart Unit 2 math and group standards in order to make formative assessments to align with standards based report card.
Math-advanced classes need to give the Unit 2 preassessment THIS WEEK!
Next Tuesday, advanced people will look at data.
Be Respectful
Be punctual and prepared
Assume goodwill and be positive
Be fully present
Don't be pollution be a solution
Agenda items:
-What is a PLC? See handout. Let's work as a team.
-Study guide reminder. Let's make our geared more toward "what kids should know" instead of a copy of the test.
-Vocab list reminder: vocabulary list tests. Administer and review with children. These are words used in our units. Go over the vocabulary and then turn in to the office.
-Math assessment issue:
-Training tomorrow-roots of democracy assessment (pull 2/3 students' test if you want to offer suggestions)
Standards Based Report Card:
April Hardy visited us to speak to us about the SBRC.
Think/Talk about: What is mastery? How do you know when a student has mastered a standard?
We will no longer have progress skills checklists.
NE (not evaluated) will be used for areas not graded at a specific time.
See resource handouts for math and ela given out at the meeting:
-mastery rubric
-math reporting statements
-ela reporting statements
-report card example
Send April questions you may have about these report cards.
Action Item: We need to determine What does mastery look like? How do you know when a student mastered a standard? What will we use?
Laura printed a kid friendly standards sheet and put it in your box. You can put this in your planning notebook.
-Curriculum map check
Check the curriculum map for updates we made today.
If you need help on a specific area, talk to a teammate to get ideas.
Option for reading: A River Ran Wild
We discussed the science habitat unit assessment.
Unit/Lesson Planning:
We will meet Thursday during planning to plan for unit 2 math-break apart Unit 2 math and group standards in order to make formative assessments to align with standards based report card.
Math-advanced classes need to give the Unit 2 preassessment THIS WEEK!
Next Tuesday, advanced people will look at data.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
PLC - September 4, 2012
Visit from Rubin
We will switch our TAG day from Wednesday to Friday
Visit from Ms. J -
AR- check your class list and teacher log in.
See the email from Ms. J as to how this works.
True Flix (good for grades 3-5)
login :trflix
password: summer
data base of nonfiction texts for us to use.
Works on a free trial.
Writing Genres (updated):
We need to keep Response to Literature due to writing assessment.
Narrative due Oct. 19
Persuasive due Dec. 14
Informational Feb. 14
Response to Lit. March 29
Math Assessment:
Break into groups to create/alter suggested assessment that is provided.
We worked on our curriculum pacing chart.
Click here to see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhm88w0vyko4kgd/Third%20Grade%20Curriculum%20Map%202012-2013.docx
Visit from Rashidah -
We discussed math assessments
We looked at ELA Correlation Chart and DRA.
We do not need to do DRA on every student.
Ms. J is working on leveled library so we could pull books for our students levels.
RTI - See the "cheat sheet" for referring students.
See T drive folder labeled RTI and look inside for strategies.
We will have RTI training soon.
ACTION ITEM: THURSDAY DURING SPECIALS WE WILL MEET TO CREATE OUR MATH ASSESSMENT! BRING A COPY OF UNIT 1 MATH TO REFER TO DURING OUR MEETING.
We will switch our TAG day from Wednesday to Friday
Visit from Ms. J -
AR- check your class list and teacher log in.
See the email from Ms. J as to how this works.
True Flix (good for grades 3-5)
login :trflix
password: summer
data base of nonfiction texts for us to use.
Works on a free trial.
Writing Genres (updated):
We need to keep Response to Literature due to writing assessment.
Narrative due Oct. 19
Persuasive due Dec. 14
Informational Feb. 14
Response to Lit. March 29
Math Assessment:
Break into groups to create/alter suggested assessment that is provided.
We worked on our curriculum pacing chart.
Click here to see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vhm88w0vyko4kgd/Third%20Grade%20Curriculum%20Map%202012-2013.docx
Visit from Rashidah -
We discussed math assessments
We looked at ELA Correlation Chart and DRA.
We do not need to do DRA on every student.
Ms. J is working on leveled library so we could pull books for our students levels.
RTI - See the "cheat sheet" for referring students.
See T drive folder labeled RTI and look inside for strategies.
We will have RTI training soon.
ACTION ITEM: THURSDAY DURING SPECIALS WE WILL MEET TO CREATE OUR MATH ASSESSMENT! BRING A COPY OF UNIT 1 MATH TO REFER TO DURING OUR MEETING.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
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