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This Week's Teacher Collaboration News
Columbia Elementary School's collaboration on February 6th included many grade levels conducting a lesson protocol. A teacher in the group presented a lesson they are instructing this week and received comments and ideas from the rest of the collaboration group. Our past experience and training on the lesson design qualities of the Schlechty Center were the foundation of our discussions:
~The 3rd grade lesson protocol was presented on writing multi-paragraph fictional stories. Along with the 3rd grade student teacher, Mrs. Shae, Mr. Dexter’s reading groups will be provided a specific set of writing directions to complete the assignment. These directions include specifics about character and setting. Additionally, the students will be working on adding dialog to their writings. To complete the assignment, the students will use the NEO2s to type up and produce their final copies of their stories.
~Mrs. Rickords presented a lesson on multiplying strategies as her fourth grade math students are currently working on a variety of multiplication skills including partial products and how it connects with the distributive property. Additionally the team discussed up and coming Valentine’s Day activities and filled in new staff on how Grandparent’s Day is such a great and enjoyable event!
~The 5th grade team listened to Mr. Urdahl discuss his prompt for the Math Opinion essay and reviewed the rubric he will use to evaluate the writing assignment done by the students. His lesson aligned with the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and provided for the design qualities of clear/compelling standards and organization of knowledge. Valentine’s Day activities and Grandparent’s Day events also was discussed…the elementary experience always includes wonderful memories such as these!
~Kindergarten worked with Pre-school and continued to discuss one-to-one correspondence increasing the children’s development in the area of math. Specifically, the lesson addressed affirmation of performance where the students were able to show their newly learned skills to parents and protections from adverse consequences for initial failures through understanding each student’s developmental level.
~For the 1st and 2nd Grade teams, Mrs. Wilhelm went through a protocol on personal narrative writing and the six step process they use in the primary grades. She shared two student examples using the prompt/pre-writing discussion of The Lost Turtle. The students then wrote personal narratives about something that happened to them using the six step process and highlighting the “w” words; what, where, who and when.
The Columbia Middle School teachers meet and discussed which content areas we would focus on for our Protocol on rigor. Content groups meet to see how their instruction aligned over the next 8 weeks so we could analyze student work sample from each grade level in regards to a given skill/concept/standard.
On February 6th, the staff from Columbia High School began the collaboration session as a full staff, working through some standard operating procedures, and discussing ways to build upon the great success our present freshmen class has had in decreasing their failure rate. After the full group session, the staff broke out into our six Professional Learning Communities and worked through a protocol taken from the Center for Leadership in School Reform aimed at creating a more enticing, engaging atmosphere for students. Half of the staff made presentations today on topics of engagement, then worked through the protocol for sharing that information. The other half of the staff will complete their presentation topics next week.
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