#17: Trivia, Art History, and Music Theory

 Celebrate Success! 

 Pursue High Standards! 

Meet Derek Claussen. In his second year at Valley,
he is finding a home teaching Intro to Music Theory and giving lessons.

 Find a Way-- Exhaust Your Resources! 

Collaborate with Colleagues:

Click HERE to access the Professional Development BINGO sheet, which includes ideas to meet PEER REVIEW requirements. (Accessible only within WDMCS Google domain.)

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Classroom Strategies: 

• Creating the Conditions for Innovative Teaching and Learning: A timely article with our snow day this past week.  Consider how to apply new strategies in the context of your own class.

Spectacular Student Work

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A quick walk around our building will highlight the talents of our students.   Here are just a few examples of the many ways we celebrate student success.

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Check out how Valley students have brought the community into their ideas:

BLANK TALES                            POETRY TRAIL                                  DES MOINES S5

 Find a Way-- Exhaust Your Resources! 

Collaborate with Colleagues:

Click HERE to access the Professional Development BINGO sheet, which includes ideas to meet PEER REVIEW requirements. (Accessible only within WDMCS Google domain.)

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Classroom Strategies:

1. Behavior Expectations and How to Teach Them | Edutopia: "Instead of looking at students as willfully disobeying all the good manners they've been taught, what if we put a process in place to teach our expectations for student behavior with the best practices often reserved for academic work?"
2. Strategy For Deeper Student Conversations: Conver-Stations: "Move students during small group discussions to deepen conversations"
3. Student Participation Strategy: Talk Moves: "Encourage collaboration and participation."

Entrepreneurs, Experiments, and Renaissance Art (WEEK 15)

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Sally Harris highlights history and it's application in ART!

click here to read more

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Collaborate with Colleagues:

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Classroom Strategies:

22 Powerful Closure Activities | Edutopia

Tech Tools:

1. Screencast-O-Matic
• Free online screen recorder for instant screen capture video sharing.
2. ☂ Symbols — CopyPasteCharacter.com
• Need a character that's not on your keyboard? Go here to get what you need, copy, and paste-- simple as that!

Week 14: Forward Focus

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Carol Englemann decides to go Flipped Classroom:

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Collaborate with Colleagues:

Click HERE to access the Professional Development BINGO sheet, which includes ideas to meet PEER REVIEW requirements. (Accessible only within WDMCS Google domain.)

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Classroom Strategies:

1. Get to Know Your Teachers, Kids: "...when teachers and students know they have five things in common, relationships and educational outcomes both improve." 
2. Tips from Dr. [Robert] Marzano: review how building relationships, student choice, and other factors can foster an engaging classroom
3. NCTE's "What Do We Know About Assessment?" (click for full resources): 

1. Multiple assessments are needed for an accurate portrait of the academic achievement of all students.

2. High-stakes testing may be detrimental to student learning and motivation.

3. Assessments need to take into consideration both traditional components and elements that may be different for 21st century student work.

Week 13: Bricolage

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Lisa Irey & her DECA students are making history in 2015!
Click here to learn more.

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Collaborate with Colleagues:

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Click HERE to access the Professional Development BINGO sheet, which includes ideas to meet PEER REVIEW requirements. (Accessible only within WDMCS Google domain.)

Questioning Strategies:

1. Hypothetical Questioning:

Link to Article

2.Who is Asking the Questions? Read the article by Alfie Kohn

Week 12: Milestones and Mindsets

 Celebrate Success! 
Staplin Performing Arts Center Dedication
Below are images from the outstanding performances.  
Click here to view the entire Dedication. 

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Growth Mindset: Embracing Challenge, Overcoming Obstacles 

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Collaborate with Colleagues:

Use THIS LINK to submit  your 1/2-day with an Instructional Coach or PD/CF (goes to Bill Bird for approval):  Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT

Visualize Fresh Ideas:

1. The Flipped Learning Toolkit (video series): What is a flipped classroom? Learn the basics here.
2. STEM Everywhere (video series): "Explore STEM education in settings beyond the classroom walls, and see how opportunities to learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are all around us."
3. Game-Based Learning (video series): "Intrigued by game-based learning, but not sure where to begin?... tips and tools for bringing them into your own practice."

Week 11: Interaction & Productive Struggles

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Mixing it up

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"The most successful math programs encourage student interaction." 

(Slavin, Lake, and Groff, "Educator's Guide- What Works in Teaching Math?")

See how Mary Whitaker and Tami Loge use this to students' advantage!

 Find a Way-- Exhaust Your Resources! 

Take advantage of your 8 hours (2 half days) to work with an 
Instructional Coach, PDCF, or go visit a Demonstration Teacher:

• Use THIS LINK to submit to Bill Bird for approval: Make sure when you put it into Subfinder to use the "REASON" (not code)--DEMO TCHR VISIT 

Classroom Management ideas:

1. DO YOU HAVE A CLASS CLOWN? Consider this approach.
2. CELL PHONE ISSUES? Here's how a Colorado professor handles it.

Week #10: Movement, Moles, and Materials

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 Pursue High Standards! 

KATHY BECKMAN-  AP Chemistry celebrates Mole Day.  May the Mole be with you!

     

 Find a Way-  Exhaust Your Resources! 

from Wednesday's PD:

1. Minimizing the Grading Load: instructional practices to get feedback but reduce the paper load
2. Moving Activities: ideas to use student movement to educational advantage
3. How Do You Know They Get It?: methods for gathering immediate feedback of student understanding
4. "Exhaust Your Resources": teaching videos, activities, management strategies, content specific ideas, etc.
• ADDED: OpenEd resources including videos and materials aligned to Core, NGSS, and Elective courses

Week 9: Student-Centered Snapshots

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 Pursue High Standards! 

      WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL AGE!      

     

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1. Think Globally: Connection to other classrooms
2. Student Centered Classrooms: Ways to get started

MoveMENT, ManageMENT, & AssessMENT (Week 8)

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TRYING NEW APPROACHES:

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Does this EVER get old? ExcellENT!

     

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MOVEMENT/OUT-OF-SEAT

1. Movement and Learning from Eric Jensen's  book,  Teaching with the Brain in Mind. "The first evidence of a linkage between mind and body was scattered in various proposals over the past century (Schmahmann, 1997). Today, the evidence has become a groundswell, and most neuroscientists agree that movement and cognition are powerfully connected."
2. New Evidence That Standing is Better Than Sitting in the Classroom "...students may be far better off standing while they work, both from a health perspective and a learning point of view.'"

MANAGEMENT

Pinterest: Classroom Management Tips. From how to manage cell phones to ways that teachers sabotage their own management, this source has great quick-hitting information.

ASSESSMENT

Quick Rubric. Easy, fast rubric creator, good for tasks, projects, exit slips; about any assessment!