WEEKLY BULLETIN FOR April 18, 2016
Monday, April 18
UPCOMING EVENTS
Department Meetings
8th Grade Science meet with Ms. Bledsaw
May 2-27 Annual State testing window
Tuesday, April 19
Softball/Baseball at Lindsay
Wednesday, April 20
Thursday, April 21
Softball/Baseball at Bartlett
Track at Tulare
Professional Development Minute by Kristi McCracken
Friday, April 22
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Department meetings Monday, April 11 starting
at 3:20. Please see your department chair for
details. Eighth grade science teachers, please
meet with Mrs. Bledsaw in Library to receive
DFAs, sign releases, and go over testing.
2. NBA Video Tournament continues this week.
3. Reminder: The Duty Schedule can be found in
the Universal drive (U:\) in the Schedules folder.
4. Sports Update: girls softball and boys baseball
will play at Lindsay on Tuesday, April 19th and
at Bartlett on Thursday, April 21st. The games
start at 3:30. Good look to our players and
coaches.
5. Sports Update: Track meet this Thursday, April
21st at Tulare. Good luck to our student
athletes and coach.
Beers and Probst, authors of a new book, believe
that when teachers walk into a classroom, they learn lots
of things they didn't know. Teachers who build up their
students, rather than blame them, are much more
effective. Reflective teachers who question how they can
get better don’t usually blame students when a lesson
doesn’t go as planned. Instead, they find aspects of the
lesson that they can control and make appropriate
modifications.
Students can't become readers if they don't
actually read. Reading practice has to be done at the
level at which students can read and by middle school
reading levels really diverge. Finding just right books can
become an issue although diagnostic tests to determine
levels give them a zpd. When challenging students to read
at the slightly higher instructional level, in-class help
should be offered to assist students.
Rigorous reading of a text refers to the energy and
attention given to the text by the student. Some teachers
make the mistake of giving students harder text thinking
that will help but what really increases scores is increasing
student engagement. Students don't read closely if they
don't care about the text. Students can't get to close
reading without rereading.
Getting students to question text, helps develop
their independence. KWL 2.0 because old chart was done
wrong. The point is to connect new knowledge to old
knowledge. First column is the facts. Then have them ask
what they want to know about that one sentence. Possible
sentences can be generated from phrases from the article.