221+Agenda+-+9.18.14

Today's Targets:

 * I can describe the features of effective direct instruction.
 * I can define formative, summative, and diagnostic assessment.
 * I can strategically insert thinking questions and interactive tasks into a lecture.

9:25 - 9:35 - Welcome and Review (Stacia)
 * Notetaker: Stacia
 * Reviewer: Morgan
 * Teaching Demos for Thursday -(3)
 * Mary
 * McKenzie
 * Emmett
 * Garry - Tuesday at 9:15 - Teachers are expecting your 2-minute introductions
 * P.E.T. comments - not optional

9:35 - 10:00 - Crash Course in Direct Instruction
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Easy to know if you taught something- not easy to know if they learned it

__3 types of assessment __


 * 1) 1. Diagnostic- what do my kids need? Examples: pretests before the year, placement tests
 * 2) 2. Formative- assessing students along the way of lesson. Examples: listening in class discussions, exit slips, whiteboards, polls, asking questions as you go, group work, write down answers, journals, debates, 5 finger confidence, skits, homework!
 * 3) 3. Summative- finding out what students learned at the end of a segment. Examples: final exam, chapter test. Teacher needs to have sufficient evidence that kids have learned the material.

__Mini lecture lesson __ Good: groups work, in pairs, summarizing information in small groups to make information stick, funny visuals, personal experience Needs improvement: immediate engagement (picture on board), don’t stop in the middle of something, not everything needs to be a race, make sure words/pictures aren’t took close together. - Conclusion slide? Never fizzle out - Change background- relevant or not Solutions - What works for students? Ask them - Ask other teachers- trial run
 * o Connect with opening questions

10:00 - 11:00 - Learnifying a Lecture (with break in the middle)
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 * Post your videoant links [|here]

11:00 - 11:55 - New Teachers Survival Guide
 * Building professional relationships
 * Strategies for getting student's attention

11:55 - 12:00 - Closure
 * Housekeeping:**
 * For Thursday, direct instruction activity guide [[file:Direct Instruction Activity Guide template-2014.docx]]- upload to Blackboard before class - [|Link to a Model]
 * Teaching demos
 * AVID training reminder