Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Presentations

Professional Learning Community (PLC)

  • Great way to work collaboratively with other educators to improve student performance
  • Focus is on learning, not teaching
  •  Different ways PLC's work in each district: Can collaborate through grade levels, subject, or entire school
  • Identify which students need additional help early on
  • Provide students with help and no longer use summer school, retention, or remedial courses
  • Tutor centers available to help mentor and assist students with homework
  • Teachers collaborate and reflect to improve classroom practices
  • Continuous learning throughout the teaching experience and reflecting on how teaching goes and what can be changed
  • Establish goals in achievement and work together to find success in goals
  • Work continuously to identify level of student achievement
  • Provide evidence of progress
  • PLC must have evidence that progress is proven
  • Creates accountability within district
  • Curriculum
Response to Intervention (RTI)
  • Approach to early identification of understanding students
  • Pyramid system with percentages: Universal interventions>
  • Universal screening, progress monitoring, multi-level prevention system, data-based decision making, grounding
  • Use good instruction on going assessment, tiered instruction, and parental involvement
  • Art could be a strength to these students
  • Use RTI as differentiated instruction
  • Students may be pulled out of the art classroom
  • Helps students who are in gray areas and middle teir
  • Helps students to pass and stay in the same grade as their peers
  • Gives students the help that they need
  • Helps students find success
  • Teachers then know more about their students
  • Learn and work from other teachers
   
 Understanding by Design
For Art Education



Stages of Backward Design

  1. Identify desired results
    1. Consists of four components
    2. Content standards
    3. Understandings
    4. Essential questions
    5. Knowledge and skills
    6. Key:  Focus on Big Ideas!

  1. Determine acceptable evidence
    1. What are key complex performance tasks indicative of understanding?
    2. What other evidence will be collected to build the case for understanding, knowledge, and skill.
    3. How will students self-assess?

  1. Plan learning experiences & instruction
    1. A focus on engaging and effective learning, “designed in”
    2. What learning experiences and instruction will promote the desired understanding, knowledge and skill?
    3. How will you best promote the deepening of insight and interest?
    4. How will you prepare students for the performance(s)?

Responsive Classroom (RC)

  • Teaching strategy
  • Produces engaged students
  • Educators create safe, challenging, and joyful elementary school
  • Daily Morning Meeting: Gives positive approach to the discipline, teaches social and academic skills, allows students to reset, restart and become ready to learn
  • Safe calm environment 
  • Helps students make their own goals
  • Giving students choices in learning: allows students to be more positive and engaging
  • Teachers: sets the tone for the day, engages students, develops a communal classroom
  • Students: Individualism and community, learn to be inclusive and kind, engaged and purposeful

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