December 2020

 

Tis the Season.

                                                    

I think kids
are rather enjoyable.....

                        Some are tall and thin

                        Others are shorter and rounder

                        Some walk

                        Others run

                        Some glide

                        Others skip

                 Students light up with their work is right

                        They grin ear to ear

                        When they see their favorite teacher

                        who says, "child it is so great to see you today"

                        Students are the most precious gift

I think kids

are rather enjoyable

                          

The mantra continues = Deep Student Learning and Profound Instruction!

Listening to Teresa Amabalia in the Principle Progress, when students make gains academically, they also gain confidence, improve their behavior, and want to attend school. Imagine the power behind all of us committing to strategies within the QFI Model that elicit academic interaction from every student every class period.

Here is what I am Noticing.

The diagram shows the results in visiting each classroom, recording the impact on students in correlation to different QFI "looked for." 

In the reflection following the demonstration lessons this past fall, resoundingly, people wanted to try strategies that provoked more student interaction in the daily lesson. In the second round of class visits, more students interacted academically with staff as more classrooms deliberately used a variety of strategies inviting the academic interaction; using such strategies as:

• Use of the chatbox code, 
• Ask students to unmute and share, 
• Use cold call for certain names, 
• Shared students documents in Hapara, 
• Presenting student work, 
• Students chinning their whiteboard into the computer screen. 
• Breakout rooms for the student to student interaction

Staff and students alike appreciated the interaction with each lesson!  In this last round of school visits, there was a collective increase in student interaction with the increased use of such strategies mentioned above! 

And we continue to work together as we strive to make social connections and academic interactions with 100% of our students in 100% of your classrooms.