Coaching

Topics for upcoming team meetings? Or feedback about anything we've done in the meetings?

//Building-displayed time line to which all grades contribute - maybe have a copy in each room

Timeline museum day in the cafeteria and/or hallways

Have a focus area of time lines or ??? for the year. Offer ideas to teachers. Include time line activity in calendar or weather charts or morning meeting. For primary grades, "hopping" for adding up or back.

Weekly reflection: add to time line displayed in room.

Use calculator tape divided into five days. IN MM asks what was most significant thing yesterday. On Monday, decide which from whole week was most, and cut out a picture and tape it up. Add brackets for the month.

WHat are the important skills at each grade level related to use of time line?

Vertical mapping work is needed.

REview of vocabulary. Grade level bands worked on adding Marzano's background content knowledge words to the lists made from the content standards. (These lists are now posted on the Vocabulary Page).
 * February 21st, 2008

Discussed Timelines (see above). Teachers shared what they have done with time lines and some things they will do differently moving forward.

Team members: Please add notes below to share your experiences with teaching time lines this year. Be sure to put your grade level and ideas for others as to what worked well or didn't.

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//1/24/08

Cross curricular work on mapping the curriculum.

Taking benchmarks and looking at each across the grade levels.

Please write below what you noticed that will help guide your planning and instruction to support students as they move towards benchmarks.

How can you take this back to your grade level? 1) grade level planning at primary 2) intermediate - sharing between grades

We need the mini cards for all levels and all content. Can lay them out together and group indicators for a unit. Then create file folders that hold activities, lessons and assessments for those.//