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A teacher rethought the way in which student presentations are done in his class. Instead of having one student present and all the other students listen to presentations over several days, he set up 3-4 presentations to take place at once and students could travel between presentations. This allowed for students to be up and moving instead of stuck to their seat when listening, and it also allowed students the opportunity to give their presentation more than once.
Another class had the students use different tools in the ancient world to keep track of time. The students were able to not just read about these devices but actually use them. They then evaluated which ones were good tools and were able to explain why.
In language arts, a few teachers are beginning their book clubs. They are having students read a section of each book before choosing the book that is right for them. This allows the student to choose one that is interesting to them, but also at their reading level.
Thank you to the 5th grade teachers and students who attended our last BOE meeting. The students presented their Monster ID Unit and did an amazing job. They showed how the unit connected to all disciplines and even had the BOE play a game of Kahoot.
Nuts and Bolts:
John will be meeting with teams on Tuesday to give out PARCC Testing books and go over testing groups and the PARCC website. For those not on a team who are testing please come to the conference room on Wednesday before school (8:15) or after school (3:45) to receive your testing manual and go over how to find your students on the PARCC Website.
Pick up for testing materials will be in the APR on Monday starting at 8:00 AM. Please remember you will have to sign your materials in and out.
When your group finishes testing please call the office to alert us so we can send someone down to you and you can sign your materials back in to the APR.
Once most students have finished testing we will make an announcement and students can move to their academic classes.
During the week of PARCC we will be using our delayed opening schedule found here: SCHEDULE. If we should finish the testing early students will go to their first period class a few minutes early but will stick to the schedule for when they are dismissed. If we should finish the testing late the students may miss some time in their first period class.
All SGO assessments should be complete at this time and uploaded to Teachscape.
Upcoming Events:
May 5 & 7 8th Grade to Lenape Valley
May 11 Faculty Meeting
May 11-14 PARCC Testing, grades 5-8
May 21 Faculty Meeting
May 25 Memorial Day – SCHOOL CLOSED
May 26 Senior Citizen Luncheon
May 28 5th Grade Trip to Liberty Science Center
NJ ASK – Grade 8 Science
Band Concert
Arts Fair
Tech Tips:
For teachers who are planning ID units or ELA teachers who are designing Research Simulation Tasks, NewsELA has a new feature called 'Text Sets'. These have several articles about the same topic from different perspectives and experiences. Teachers would still need to choose between the 5-15 articles and design questions to promote student thinking, but the work of finding the articles is already done for you.
This conference was held in April and math teachers rom around the country came to learn and present. For the next week, maybe two, all the sessions are live and you can download handouts that were given in each session. Math teachers this is a great opportunity to acquire some innovative lessons on those topics that are difficult to teach.
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