Please sit near the people in your Inquiry Groups!

Adam, David, KelseySam, James, DorothyAmber, Sarah, Tara

Verda, Roshni, Allison, Raksha

DO NOW:

Visit each key message poster and respond to the two questions.

Read the comments that are already on the poster before you write your own.

Gallery Walk

Read and reflect on all of the postings

Synthesizing the Key Messages• Which of these key messages did you most

live by this year? • Which will you pay more attention to next

year? Why?• How do the actions listed on the Key Message

charts help you close the achievement gap for your students?

Program updates:

The portfolio collection time will be May 19th at Seven Stars Bakery (342 Broadway) from 12:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. If that time will not work for you, please contact me about submitting the portfolio before that time.

Program updates:

New ALTERNATE portfolio drop-off time:4:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. at Seven Stars Bakery on Broadway on Friday May 18th.

Program updates:

End of year celebration on May 24th 5:30 – 7:30 (look for an Evite)

1. Reflect on effectiveness in instruction, assessment and content knowledge and identify next steps in professional development.

2. Identify and plan to implement management routines and pacing strategies that support student engagement.

Please take out your intervention plan from

the last session (Handout 14.9).

• In your inquiry groups… SWITCH intervention plans until everyone has one that is not their own.

• Use the sticky notes to provide some feedback about the plan. Use Handout 15.1 for some ideas.

• When you are done, return the plan to the owner and answer any clarifying questions about the feedback.

Analyzing Student Progress in the Content Domain

• Use Handout 15.2 to reflect on student progress in the content domain. Refer to any assessment data that may be relevant.

• Additional question to consider: Considering what you have learned this year, how will you teach the content differently next year?

Synthesizing Strategy Implementation Planning and Reflection Sheets

• Take out/pull up the strategy implementation planning and reflection sheets you completed this year.

• Use Handout 15.3 to reflect on your overall strengths and weaknesses this year.

Synthesizing Strategy Implementation Planning and Reflection Sheets

PAIR UP with someone not in your Inquiry Group and share

your reflections.

Managing for Success

• (5 min) Turn and talk to the person next to you about successful management strategies/routines that you implemented this year.

• How did this routine set your students up for success?

• Choose one strategy/routine between the two of you to share with larger group.

Share out

• Briefly describe the strategy/routine and why you decided to implement it.

• How did this routine set your students up for success?

Personal Reflection on Management

• Complete the T-chart on Handout 15.5• Highlight your strengths and weaknesses in

establishing a classroom environment and management systems in a variety of instructional settings which were discussed throughout this course.

• Strengths and weaknesses can be measured via the effect the routines had on maximizing instructional time and student achievement.

1. Reflect on effectiveness in instruction, assessment and content knowledge and identify next steps in professional development.

2. Identify and plan to implement management routines and pacing strategies that support student engagement.

Continued Professional Growth

• Take out/pull up Handout 2.14• Enter today’s date (5/9) in the Check in #3

column. Record your progress for the goals that you set for yourself earlier in the year.

• Use Handout 15.6 to draft your professional goals for the next school year.

Professional Development Action Plan(Component #7)

Keep them engaged until the last day of school by IMPROVING YOUR PACING

(Teach Like A Champion)

JIGSAW ACTIVITY:– All groups read the introduction– 1s: Change the Pace and Brighten Lines– 2s: All Hands and Every Minute Matters– 3s: Look Forward and Work the Clock

What’s it look like?

Why is it effective?

Example of when you could use it.

Change the Pace and Brighten Lines

What’s it look like?

Why is it effective?

Example of when you could use it.

All Hands and Every Minute Matters

What’s it look like?

Why is it effective?

Example of when you could use it.

Look Forward and Work the Clock

What’s it look like?

Why is it effective?

Example of when you could use it.

Passing the TORCH…Pass around the sheets until you have given your best advice on:-Classroom management-Staying organized-Staying sane-Instruction-Anything else!

Then sign the welcome letter for new teachers.

Thank you for all the hard work you have

done this year! FINISH STRONG and

have an amazing summer!