Learning This Week, Oct 18-22
Week Oct 18-22
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Mon |
Emergency lesson plans to Homeroom teachers |
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Tues |
Primary Homeroom teachers meeting 2:00 pm Mr. Patrick’s room |
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Weds |
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Thursday |
Assembly grade 8-9 2:00 pm |
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Friday |
Assembly grade 10-11 2:00 pm Family newsletter home Primary Homeroom teachers and Secondary Grade
Level Leaders |
Welcome back,
Friday marked one month since the start of school.
Congratulations! And thank you for all your efforts!
Below you will read about:
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Emergency lesson plans
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Assemblies on Thursday and Friday
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Classroom ‘walkthorugh’ visits
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Classroom Discipline Protocol
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Update on schedule
1. Emergency Lesson Plans
Please have emergency lesson plans handed to the Secondary
Grade Level Leaders (homeroom teachers) by the end of the day Monday.
These lesson plans will make it easier for yourself if you
are sick, your colleagues who will cover for you, and the students.
2. Assemblies
There will be two assemblies this week for students and
parents regarding university preparation and readiness.
Grade 8-9 Thursday 2:00
Grade 10-11 Friday 2:00
If you are teaching one of these classes at this time,
please escort them to the auditorium at 1:55 and sit with them in the
auditorium.
3. Classroom Walkthrough Visits
This week we will start organized classroom walkthroughs to
support teaching and learning. Members of the school leadership team will make
short 5-10 minute visits to classrooms. We will be looking for evidence of
classroom practices we have been talking about this year. We will start with
the secondary school this week.
What to expect:
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Tues, Weds, Thursday after Breakfast, before
lunch
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Teams of two will visit a room
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Short visit 5-10 minutes
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Look at the whiteboard
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Short discussion with students (What are you
doing in class)
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Quick look at the class journal or exercise book
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Email at the end of the day identify practices
and research that support the practices
What we will look for
· Evidence of Lesson Structure and practiced transition routines (See the previous post) Grade 6-11
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Evidence of student engagement 6-11
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Evidence of Do Now Grade Grades 6-11
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Use of classroom journal 6-8
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Evidence of Summary Activities 6-11
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Evidence of class routines and management of
class material (The book for this class are out and being used, books for other
classes, bag, coats etc. are in the cubby. 6-8 students should be dismissed
from the room, the teacher should be the last one out and close the door)
4. Classroom Discipline Protocol
This week in Class meeting students will sign the code of conduct.
If a student is repeatedly disruptive, the subject teacher may assign detention
Protocol for Issuing Student Detention
- The Teacher Should:
Remind individual students of the code of conduct if they are disrupting class.
The teacher can also remind the student that detention is a CHOICE made by
the student. If they chose not to follow instructions, they choose
detention.
- The Teacher Should,
if the behavior persists, assign student detention in that grade level
room at the nearest break: Breakfast, Lunch, Afterschool (If at this
point you need to remove them from the room send them to Mr. Patrick's
Office. I may hold them for 10
minutes before sending them back to class)
- The Teacher
Should: Notify the grade level leader so they can coordinate having the
students in the room at the break
- The Teacher Should: Run the detention. Detention
is run BY THE TEACHER assigning it. 20 minutes. Be in the room on time
- The Teacher
Should: Have the students complete a “Behavior Report” during detention.
Each grade level leader has one
- The Teacher
should: Have them practice the procedure that they violated (Raising hand,
etc). Research shows it takes 18 times to break a bad habit and 3 times to
learn a new one. Have them Raise their hands 21 times. Each time
explaining why.
- Give the behavior report to the Grade Level
Leader so the grade leader can contact home
- Grade leader message the parents that the
student had detention and cc it to Mr. Patrick, then give Mr. Patrick
the Behavior report
I support disciplinary action against persistent
disruptive behavior, I also encourage teacher accountability. Student
participation in class is first and foremost the responsibility of the classroom
instructor.
In addition to questions about what the student
did and how often they were doing it in your class, I will be concerned with
questions such as “What was the do now, how was it implemented? What were the
students instructed to be doing when this student was being disruptive-what was
he or she supposed to be doing at that time? Have you practiced routines for
transitions and quieting the class”?
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Repeated detentions will lead to a parent meeting
with me according to the Code of Conduct.
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Continued disruption after this will lead to
referral to the disciplinary committee made up of the Grade Level Leader, Mr.
Patrick, School Psychologist, Ms. Lima.
5. Update to Schedule
This week we added more than 7 courses into the timetable in German, Spanish, Russian, PE, Music. Unfortunately, this has impacted the timing of some other classes as we searched for room on the schedule. In the past two weeks we have made about a dozen changes at teachers requests, about adozen changes at the request of students and course selection, and about a dozen changes to be sure we are meeting the requirements of the program. The change of one timing impacts the whole system.
If there is a problem with your timetable please notify me
There will probably be a new one Friday, but that should mostly be dealing with including new staff member names and correcting some room numbers, and addressing any issues that may show up this week. There will hopefully be few changes to timing. Hopefully, this Friday will be the final version.
I thank you all for
your flexibility in supporting this.
Thank you all for your efforts in supporting our
students
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