Week 2.5

Growing Excellence (+10 for ALL) 

Guided Learning versus Whole Group Reteaching
Whenever you teach a concept, some or most kids will learn it. When kids learn, we know that they are ready to move on to collaborative learning to deepen their learning of the concept.

Amanda Hancock working with individual students in art
is a perfect example of guided learning because she is giving
them specific feedback to help them move forward.

But what about the kids that didn't get it?  What do we do with them?  Well here are 2 decisions to make. 

1.  Reteach the whole class again, or 

2.  Put those that learned it to work on a collaborative or independent task while you pull those that didn't learn it to work  in guided learning. 

Guided learning is a small-group setting where the teacher guides learning for struggling students by breaking down the concept into smaller chunks that kids can learn. By scaffolding learning for struggling kids in a small group with the teacher, the teacher is able to see more specifically what each student needs to help him learn. 

 College AND Career 
Preparing Kids for College and Career requires a Growth Mindset.  This video illustrates the thinking that successful students have versus unsuccessful students.  What we do to create a culture of continuous improvement leads more students to develop their growth mindset.

 Google Me This 

Everything You Need to Know about Google Classroom Part 3

Prevent People From Downloading, Copying or Printing Your Drive Files

Upcoming Dates 

Regi Gray's 4th grade math students regularly
collaborate about problem solving.

• Sun, 11/1 - Daylight Savings Time (Fall Back 1 hour)
• Mon, 11/9 - Begin 2nd 6 Weeks Formative Assessments
• Preparing for Assessments
• Test Key Instructions and Manual Entry
• Fri, 11/13 - End of 2nd 6 Weeks & Deadline to enter 2nd FA Data into DMAC 
• Mon, 11/16 - Response to Assessment 
• Wed, 11/18 - Early Release Day (Professional Development for Teachers)

 What I'm Learning

10 Google Classroom Routines that Work

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Check out our Bullying Prevention Video by our Tom Sheppard's College & Career Prep Class