Notable 7th Grade Educators
Thank you for your Twitter/FlipGrid responses this week. At times the work of serving students gets a bit challenging but small things like FlipGrid or Twitter challenges builds the camaraderie that will support us during the Winter and Spring months.
- Content Meetings
In Content meetings this week I would like for everyone to be prepared to discuss their data from the first common assessment in your classes. In preparation for these conversations please have your data with you, positive/negative trends, irregularities, and remediation plans for students who failed the common assessment. - Class Transitions
We were better here this week. As a reminder set your classroom timer/phones to go off with five minutes to go before your scheduled class change. Our grade this week would be a… B+
https://onlineclock.net/ - Classroom Lines
Thank you for reminding your students of our straight line expectations. Transitions on the hall are a work in process and will require each of us to continue coaching our students. - Classroom Supervision
All teachers should monitor students in their rooms at all times (at your door or in your room). Leaving students unattended to go to another colleagues’ classroom or bathroom is a practice that needs to be discontinued immediately. This is gross negligence and will be addressed directly. - Lunchroom Duty
Review Dr. Armond’s weekly communication this week regarding our cafeteria expectations. - Classroom Walk Throughs
This week I will begin official observations as well as continue focusing on the questions we are asking our students. Last week I visited 11 classrooms for 15 minutes each with the purpose of just listening to the questions we are asking our students. Out of the 141 questions I heard during my classroom visits we asked 7 – Higher Order/Level 3 or 4 – Depth of Knowledge questions. The goal is for us to plan with our content areas or individually to ask more rigorous questions. Using the question stem/Depth of Knowledge diagram in your walk through feedback with tremendously help you plan to ask better questions. - FlipGrid
This weekend I sent a couple emails providing instructions how to participate in our grade level learning through the application FlipGrid. If you are experiencing difficulty in operating the application please let me know. 100% participation would be ideal. - Tornado Drill/Lock down/Fire Drill
Prepare your classes this week with the expectation that this drill will be completed with no talking in effort for staff to communicate safety information. - 7th Grade Parent Communication
I’d like to thank each team for their submission of their weekly parent communication. They were filled with everything from professional support information to detailed study guides. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! - Thursday’s Grade Level Meeting Agenda
We will complete a Twitter Slow Chat on “Star Power” In preparation for this chat be sure to have access to your Twitter accounts. This should be fun. - Interims go home this week!!!
- It’s ok to laugh…https://youtu.be/44Eo3pleqJE
Notable 7th Grade Educators 