1. Identify skills and concepts that have yet to be learned.
Fast Facts/Steps:
* 40% of what we teach, students already know (not all students know the same 40%) - BUT, if you play your cards right, instead of spending time on what students know, you can use that time to accelerate students forward.
* Determine NEED to know vs. NICE to know pre-requisites for the unit you are beginning to teach. Only focus on NEED to know.
* Find a way to pretest students on these NEED to know pre-requisites. Could be a pre-test, brainstorm of vocabulary or information they know about the topic, data review from last year, etc. (Can be a quick check.)
* Determine what students need a quick refresher of the NEED to know skills. Pull a small group of students to work with you for as little as 7 minutes or so a day prior to starting the lesson or throughout the lesson. Other students that may not need a refresher can be working on sharing more of what they know during those 7 minutes, reading or practicing skills together, etc. Small group instruction is one of the most powerful ways students can learn in classrooms - so finding time to do this is imperative for accelerating students.
This is one of the 5 quick ways we can work to accelerate learning. I will continue to share ideas throughout the next month!
Important Information:
SEL/Brain Smart Starts - It is always important to take time to prepare the brain for learning. Here are a couple Brain Smart Start Idea for this week: AIR Write - Call out vocabular words or definitions and have students to write the word in the air/ SNAKE SQUEEZE - Tense up your entire body and release one section at a time.
Special Education Resource - Just a reminder of our special education excel file. This may be a good, quick reference for you about student accommodations and notes. Students with 504 Plans are also added to this document. We need to update a few more students, but we will try keep it up-to-date. Reaching out to your special education teachers is the most important thing to do! HERE is the document.
Coaches vs. Cancer Game - Tuesday, September 28th is our Coaches vs. Cancer Volleyball game. On Tuesday, we will encourage everyone to wear pink or their Coaches vs. Cancer shirts - and of course, jeans for a donation to the Lasher and Hinton families. If you would like to make a donation, you can do so in the high school office on Tuesday. Thank you! #LEO
House Teacher Meeting - Reminder we will have a House Teacher meeting on Tuesday, September 28th at 7:30 in the high school library. Lauren will help us with our lessons for the next month. We are also getting closer to our first competition!
Grading Period - End of the Grading Period is October 8th and Report Cards will come out October 15th!
Indiana College Core Teachers - Teachers who teach a dual credit course that is an option for the Indiana College Core, please mark your calendars on October 5th. We will have a short meeting at 7:25 a.m. in the library. More information will be coming soon!
Perry Central Jr./Sr. High School Vision Statement
2021-2022 Vision: Connect with others, Collaborate with Teams, Continuous Improvement, Create Authentic Learning Opportunities, Celebrate!
Purpose: Each student to show one year of growth.
Goals:
Increase ILEARN Pass Rate by 10% Math/ELA (10 more students)
20% of our students will earn an Industry Credential by the time they graduate (17 students)
Increase number of students performing at grade level on power standards by 10% (10-12 students per grade level)
100% of our time will be spent loving these students until they learn.
(You can find the Link to our Vision Story HERE.)
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