Monday, April 4, 2016
For Your Tool Box
In the Tool Box
As professionals, we can never have enough good resources that enable us to perfect our craft. Below is an article about how to improve learning in middle school. Even though the article is written from a middle school perspective, I found the article to be relevant at the high school level as well. The article focuses pm some essential components necessary to begin to foster engagement in a classroom (very brief :o).
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Monday, March 14, 2016
Professional Growth
News and Notes
As we move into the fourth and final quarter of the semester, continue to look for ways to encourage and motivate your students and yourselves. Students will begin to feel the tug of summer on their brains, and become more and more disinterested with focusing on school. Lack of focus coupled with impending warmer weather can create an environment full of distracting behaviors.
In this type of environment planning is essential. A good plan will assist you in keeping the class focused on your goals for the classroom, and this will in turn assist students in staying focused. Collaboration is a great time to discuss ways to devise these plans, lesson the stress, and in increase motivation to finish strong.
In The Tool Box
As we move into the fourth and final quarter of the semester, continue to look for ways to encourage and motivate your students and yourselves. Students will begin to feel the tug of summer on their brains, and become more and more disinterested with focusing on school. Lack of focus coupled with impending warmer weather can create an environment full of distracting behaviors.
In this type of environment planning is essential. A good plan will assist you in keeping the class focused on your goals for the classroom, and this will in turn assist students in staying focused. Collaboration is a great time to discuss ways to devise these plans, lesson the stress, and in increase motivation to finish strong.
In The Tool Box
As teaching professionals, we are always looking for ways to improve on our practice. Below is a brief article on 5 researched based highly effective teaching practices of teaching professionals. Enjoy!
Monday, February 29, 2016
Staff Meeting
News and Notes
Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
At this weeks staff meeting, we will spend some time discussing ways Webb's Depth of Knowledge can be utilized as a tool in planning rigorous and engaging lessons for our students. We will also look at the results of the DOK google worksheet that everyone completed. The worksheet consisted of posted objectives in classrooms from both Sem Yeto campuses over the last month. During the staff meeting, we will look at ways we can increase/decrease the DOK levels of the stated objectives to ensure we are meeting the needs of all of our students.
In the Tool Box
As educators we all understand how technology, when integrated into the curriculum, revolutionizes the learning process. More and more studies show that technology integration in the curriculum improves students' learning processes and outcomes. Within your departments, as you begin to discuss/plan ways to utilize our available technology funds to enhance our students 21st century skills, please refer to the SAMR model below as a resource to assist in steering your discussions.
Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
At this weeks staff meeting, we will spend some time discussing ways Webb's Depth of Knowledge can be utilized as a tool in planning rigorous and engaging lessons for our students. We will also look at the results of the DOK google worksheet that everyone completed. The worksheet consisted of posted objectives in classrooms from both Sem Yeto campuses over the last month. During the staff meeting, we will look at ways we can increase/decrease the DOK levels of the stated objectives to ensure we are meeting the needs of all of our students.
In the Tool Box
As educators we all understand how technology, when integrated into the curriculum, revolutionizes the learning process. More and more studies show that technology integration in the curriculum improves students' learning processes and outcomes. Within your departments, as you begin to discuss/plan ways to utilize our available technology funds to enhance our students 21st century skills, please refer to the SAMR model below as a resource to assist in steering your discussions.
Monday, February 15, 2016
Depth of Knowlegde
News and Notes
PBIS
PBIS is off to a great start! Continue to recognize students for any positive behaviors that you witness; the more the better. It also shows to our students what we value and pay attentions too. As the weather changes, our students will begin to feel the tug of the end of the school year. PBIS is a tool that we can utilize to assist our students with staying on track and remaining focused on the positive behaviors that will ensure that they attain all of their credits.
Depth of Knowledge
As we walk through classrooms, we have been taking pictures of posted objectives. During our next staff meeting, we will spend some more time examining how DOK applies specifically to your classroom. At the next staff meeting, please bring an objective from a recently delivered lesson from your classroom. We will look at ways to increase the level of rigor by increasing the DOK level of the objective, assigning a correlating engagement activity, and looking at ways to incorporate technology into instruction to serve as a tool to assist in increasing engagement and critical thinking in our classroom. I have put together a quick worksheet with some of the objectives from teachers at both sites. See if you can determine correctly each objectives DOK level. Also, be thinking about ways to differentiate lessons and engagement activities to bump up and down the current /DOK level of the listed objectives.
The more knowledgeable we become with being able to incorporate the different levels of DOK into our instruction, the more successful our students will be. Thanks for all you do; enjoy!
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Depth of Knowledge
PBIS
PBIS is off to a great start! Continue to recognize students for any positive behaviors that you witness; the more the better. It also shows to our students what we value and pay attentions too. As the weather changes, our students will begin to feel the tug of the end of the school year. PBIS is a tool that we can utilize to assist our students with staying on track and remaining focused on the positive behaviors that will ensure that they attain all of their credits.
Depth of Knowledge
As we walk through classrooms, we have been taking pictures of posted objectives. During our next staff meeting, we will spend some more time examining how DOK applies specifically to your classroom. At the next staff meeting, please bring an objective from a recently delivered lesson from your classroom. We will look at ways to increase the level of rigor by increasing the DOK level of the objective, assigning a correlating engagement activity, and looking at ways to incorporate technology into instruction to serve as a tool to assist in increasing engagement and critical thinking in our classroom. I have put together a quick worksheet with some of the objectives from teachers at both sites. See if you can determine correctly each objectives DOK level. Also, be thinking about ways to differentiate lessons and engagement activities to bump up and down the current /DOK level of the listed objectives.
The more knowledgeable we become with being able to incorporate the different levels of DOK into our instruction, the more successful our students will be. Thanks for all you do; enjoy!
CLICK BELOW
Depth of Knowledge
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Moving Forward
New and Notes
PBIS Info
The second semester is in full swing. Moving forward, Sem Yeto and Sem Yeto Satellite will be fully implementing more and more facets of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
PBIS Info
The second semester is in full swing. Moving forward, Sem Yeto and Sem Yeto Satellite will be fully implementing more and more facets of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
Beginning the first week in February, we will begin rolling out the new PBIS procedures. As a staff, we will go over the procedures during the February staff meeting. At that time, any questions or concerns that arise can be addressed and answered. A power-point will be shared with the entire staff that can be shared with students, and explain to students how the new process will work.
A big THANK YOU needs to go to Daniel Mikkola for working with his students to create different ticket options during his CompArts/MMI classes.
Our hope is that we will have the student designed tickets ready for everyone in the next few weeks. In the mean time, all teaching staff will receive basic tickets to hand out to students beginning on Thursday February 4th. Please begin handing out tickets immediately; we will be drawing winners on Friday February 5th.
Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
As you prepare and perfect your lessons for the week, think of the vital role that your objectives and lesson activities play in ensuring our students are awarded an opportunity to think critically in your classrooms. Critical thinking happens at the 3rd level of DOK. Below, I have attached some great resources that can be utilized to assist in building these activities into already established lessons.
Great things are happening at Sem Yeto; have a great week!
Great things are happening at Sem Yeto; have a great week!
In the Tool Box
Here is a DOK chart that can assist
Monday, January 4, 2016
Welcome To Third Quarter
fresh start--review
policies and procedures
News and Notes
News and Notes
please take the time to review policies and procedures
with all your classes. make sure the students are aware of your expectations,
class procedures, how they will be graded, what they will do immediately upon
entering class, expectations during group work/independent work, consequences for not following rules, recognition for being on task and participating, tardy policy, ect….
please make sure your students know your cell phone policies. please enforce rules fairly and consistently:)
AS YOU PLAN FOR THE NEXT TWO QUARTERS
PLEASE REMEMBER SEM YETO'S MISSION FOR OUR STUDENTS IS TO PREPARE THEM TO BECOME 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS AND KNOW HOW TO : COMMUNICATE CLEARLY, COLLABORATE EFFECTIVELY,
THINK CRITICALLY AND DEMONSTRATE CREATIVITY….
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND RIGOR are ESSENTIAL:))
In the Tool Box
The beginning of a new semester or quarter is a great time and opportunity to establish positive relationships or repair poor ones with your students. Below i have attached an article that has some great activities/strategies for fostering a positive environment between teachers to students, and between students to students. Enjoy!
Building Positive Relationships
Monday, December 14, 2015
We Made It!
News and Notes
I would like to start off by first saying thank you for all of the hard work you all do for our students on a daily basis! We have arrived at the end of the first semester. Please utilize the time off to acquire some much needed rest and relaxation.
Our students are anxious to start their vacation, and you might see this have an effect on their actions in your classroom. Providing structured and engaging lessons, will ensure negative student behaviors in your class are minimized.
To show our appreciation for all that you do, Sem Yeto administration will be serving breakfast this Friday, December 18th at 8:00 am on the SYS campus.
With 2015 coming to and end and 2016 right around the corner, I would like to encourage us all to spend some time reflecting on the road ahead. Common Core is the tool being utilized moving forward to assist us in ensuring our students are prepared to meet the demanding needs of the 21st century workforce. Our students have a lot to learn (as do we as educational professionals)!
Our students success is greatly determined by the culture/environment we create on our campuses, and the instruction they receive in our classrooms. As we continue to grow as professionals, it is imperative that we reflect and identify the areas in our practice where we as individual, academic departments, and entire school educators need to grow and expand. Whether that area is building positive relationships with students, collaborating effectively with colleagues, improving on designing relevant, rigorous and engaging CCC unit and lesson plans, or acquiring more content knowledge in our area of expertise; focusing on our area for individual and collective growth will provide Sem Yeto students opportunities they never thought were possible.
In the Tool Box
Teaching Channel's Deeper Learning Series
I have included a video below on the series. Please take a moment to view and reflect. There are over 50 videos in this series. You can see more here. Enjoy!!
The 50+ videos in this series showcase 10 Deeper Learning networks that are preparing students for success -- they collectively serve more than 500 schools and 227,000 students.
Meet students and teachers who exemplify what can happen when the Common Core is approached with innovative teaching models that emphasize real-world experience, academic mindsets, and collaborative project work.
We hope their work inspires you, and sparks new ideas for helping students think critically, and communicate powerfully about their classes, their own learning, and who they are becoming in the world.
I would like to start off by first saying thank you for all of the hard work you all do for our students on a daily basis! We have arrived at the end of the first semester. Please utilize the time off to acquire some much needed rest and relaxation.
Our students are anxious to start their vacation, and you might see this have an effect on their actions in your classroom. Providing structured and engaging lessons, will ensure negative student behaviors in your class are minimized.
To show our appreciation for all that you do, Sem Yeto administration will be serving breakfast this Friday, December 18th at 8:00 am on the SYS campus.
With 2015 coming to and end and 2016 right around the corner, I would like to encourage us all to spend some time reflecting on the road ahead. Common Core is the tool being utilized moving forward to assist us in ensuring our students are prepared to meet the demanding needs of the 21st century workforce. Our students have a lot to learn (as do we as educational professionals)!
Our students success is greatly determined by the culture/environment we create on our campuses, and the instruction they receive in our classrooms. As we continue to grow as professionals, it is imperative that we reflect and identify the areas in our practice where we as individual, academic departments, and entire school educators need to grow and expand. Whether that area is building positive relationships with students, collaborating effectively with colleagues, improving on designing relevant, rigorous and engaging CCC unit and lesson plans, or acquiring more content knowledge in our area of expertise; focusing on our area for individual and collective growth will provide Sem Yeto students opportunities they never thought were possible.
In the Tool Box
Teaching Channel's Deeper Learning Series
I have included a video below on the series. Please take a moment to view and reflect. There are over 50 videos in this series. You can see more here. Enjoy!!
The 50+ videos in this series showcase 10 Deeper Learning networks that are preparing students for success -- they collectively serve more than 500 schools and 227,000 students.
Meet students and teachers who exemplify what can happen when the Common Core is approached with innovative teaching models that emphasize real-world experience, academic mindsets, and collaborative project work.
We hope their work inspires you, and sparks new ideas for helping students think critically, and communicate powerfully about their classes, their own learning, and who they are becoming in the world.
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