Rainbow Park Elementary
2012-2013
ONE TEAM, ONE GOAL, NO LIMITS!
"Life....It tends to respond to our outlook, to sliape itself to meet our expectations." Richard M. DeVos
1. School's MissionA^ision
• Staff and students must be aware of the school's mission and its meaning.
• ONE TEAM, ONE GOAL, NO LIMITS!
2. Planning and Preparation for Learning
• Utilizes Pacing Guides and Instructional Focus Calendars (District and School) to develop
thorough lesson plans-aligned with state standards.
• Lessons are designed with clear, measurable goals.
• Lessons are designed to motivate and actively engage all students in learning.
• Design lessons that break down complex tasks/concepts to address all learning needs and
styles-DIFFERENTIATION.
• Anticipate students' misconceptions, difficulties and confusion and incorporate multiple
strategies and activities to overcome them,
• Incorporate a mix of top-notch multicultural learning materials.
• Devise and implement appropriate assessments that monitor students' learning and
acquisition of skills/concepts. These are in addition to school-wide interims and tri-weekly
tests.
• Organize and arrange your classroom to maximize student involvement and learning.
3. Classroom Management
• LIMITS!
Be specific, direct, and consistent in communicating and enforcing high expectations vWth NO
Gain student respect and create a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
Implement a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
Successfully establish class routines up-front so students maintain them throughout the year.
Successfully develop students' self-discipline, self-efficacy, and sense of responsibility.
Maximize lesson momentum and use smooth transitions to get the most of every minute.
Be alert, poised, self-assured and nip virtually all discipline problems in the bud.
Get students to buy into highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.
Make attaining LEARNING GAINS the main driving force to motivate student involvement.
4. Instructional Deliver^'
• Exude high expectations and convince all students that they will master the material.