DIBELS
Dibels Middle of Year Assessment window is 1/22-2/6. You will be recieving more information very soon. We will be using our same Sweep process. Stay tuned.
Before the Dibels MOY assessments (as you are completing your progress monitoring) if you run into any battery issues on your Nokia's please let me know. The school system is aware that our Nokia's are slowly passing away. We need to make sure that we have enough operational devices at the school level to complete the MOY process. Also, go ahead and plug in your device when your return it if there is any room.
I will be sharing the MOY reminders with the SWEEP team and all K-2 teachers.
Foundational Skills (not just K-2 anymore)
With the approaching Common Core standards, we all need to be aware that
ALL Teachers K-12 WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING READING!
The Common Core ELA is broken down into the following areas:
Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language
Foudational Skills fall under the first area: Reading.
*Foundational Skills do not include comprehension and vocabulary.
*DIBELS assesses many of the foundational skills.
*In order for scaffolding to take place, we must firmly teach foundational skills.
*Foundational skills impact comprehension. Focus of reading without firm foundational skills turns into painfully slow decoding. The reading looses meaning because the focus good readers use to think while reading is concentrated on decoding with readers who lack foundational skills.
The following skills are Foundational Skills- These are critical skills for ALL of our students. There is good information about each of these areas on-line. You will be hearing a lot more about Foundational Skils and the areas listed below specifically.
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Phonics and Word Recognition
Fluency
Science Updates
a. Over 3,000 in Scholarship and Prizes to be awarded
b. Focus is on getting back to Student Voices, schedule includes Edutainment and more student activities
RC Days will mirror 3rd and 4th Quarter Standards, so training should mirror 3rd and 4th Quarter Standards
One of the components of the RC days will be sharing and exchanging of ideas and lessons among teachers.
Grade | Third Quarter | Fourth Quarter |
Kinder. | Matter: Properties and change | Earth Systems, Structures and Processes |
1st | Earth in the Universe | Forces and Motion |
2nd | Matter: Properties and Change | Forces and Motion |
3rd | Earth in the Universe, Earth Systems, Structures and Processes | Structures and Functions of Living Organisms |
Fourth | Forces and Motion, Energy: Conservation and Transfer | Matter: Properties and Change |
District is offering afterschool Science workshops privately for teachers who would like to gain more insight into science on their grade level. Please see the staff development offerings for January.
Math Updates
K-2 Quarter Tests are in my office ready to distribute. I will put them in your boxes as soon as I can.
There are 4 WSFCS Math CCSS Professional Development Modules
1. CCSS Math Wiki- 1st look at the standards
2. Module A- Standards for Mathematical Practice
3. Module B- Unpacking the Standards- this includes looking at the standards and identifying mathmatical tasks to correllate to those standards, January 23rd staff development will continue this area, K-5 Febrary 20 staff development will complete this process. Again, the focus is on the mathmatical tasks. Please see the staff development offerings for January. The next step will be a focus on Depth of Knowledge, which will be the focus on how deeply students need to understand the Math Common Core, that training will be a 1/2 day in March.
4. Module C-Common Core In Action
Do you know CCSS Vocabulary?
Domain
Cluster
Standards
Unpacking
Here is a wonderful explanation of the new standards. Click the link, go to page 5.
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_Math%20Standards.pdf
Check out the updated Unpacking Documents at DPI when you get a chance.
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