DOK in our Instruction
Helping Students be Comfortable with Not Knowing (CLICK HERE) is a great post by Bill Ferriter (CLICK HERE) This post presents a cool instructional activity to challenge kids to think at DOK Level 3. The biggest barrier to DOK 3 instruction is how we structure time to give kids an opportunity to think and manipulate information at DOK 3.What instructional activities do you use to make kids think at DOK Level 3.
October 8 - Early Release Day
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| If anyone wants to know why reading is important, show them this infographic. Reading is the future. |
Time - 2 pm to 4 pm
Location - See Google Doc above
Purpose - See Google Doc above
Vertical Teams
CLICK HERE for your AssignmentsTHS Student named NASA Aerospace Scholar
We have a NASA
Aerospace Scholar on campus, Nathan McBride. After a rigorous
competition, he won a spot in the summer academy at NASA. His team
elected him project manager, so he was tasked with leading them in planting a
colony on Mars. Below is the link to the video they made at the end of
the week:
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| Dr. Hartt with Mrs. Evans' students at their luncheon fundraiser. |
App of the Week - Educreations
This app for tablets make a great addition to your assessment tools. Students can import pictures, draw on top of them and record a narration of what they have learned. Check it out at https://www.educreations.com/
Mrs. Evans teaches Life & Career Readiness Skills
Students in Mrs. Evans' Class are doing luncheons, bake sales, and providing a laundry service to raise money for a trip to Morgan's Wonderland in San Antonio, a theme park for students with disabilities. This is a great way to give kids career readiness skills.
Students recently went on a Community Based Outing to Longview and bought ingredients and supplies for the luncheon held in September. The students did a great job while shopping! For instance, our goal was to make 200 sandwich lunches. The students collaborated to see how many boxes of chips they needed to purchase. Each box contained 50 bags of chips. After working together, they decided that we needed to purchase 4 boxes of chips. They did this sort of calculation throughout the trip at Sam's.
We went on to have lunch at the Cracker Barrel. Each student was given $10, (money they had made from the laundry service) to order something of his/her choice off of the menu. They each were given a printed ticket and paid for his/her own lunch and calculated the gratuity. It was a great time. (I have pictures of this also.)
At the end of October, students will load buses at 7:00 am and travel to Longview. Students will board the Texas Express, an Amtrack Train, to Dallas. Students will then have lunch at El-Fenix and then conclude our day with a visit to the Dallas World Aquarium. We are excited about visiting places that are in our curriculum and have hands-on experiences in the big city of Dallas. Our current events story in News2You is about the recently released movie, Dolphin Tale 2. Students are learning about aquariums, sea mammals, and will do a really neat science experiment later in the week. Next week, we will learn about Hispanic Heritage, which is observed September 15th - October 15th each year. Our trip to Dallas will give students a personal experience to make their learning more meaningful.
Students recently went on a Community Based Outing to Longview and bought ingredients and supplies for the luncheon held in September. The students did a great job while shopping! For instance, our goal was to make 200 sandwich lunches. The students collaborated to see how many boxes of chips they needed to purchase. Each box contained 50 bags of chips. After working together, they decided that we needed to purchase 4 boxes of chips. They did this sort of calculation throughout the trip at Sam's.
We went on to have lunch at the Cracker Barrel. Each student was given $10, (money they had made from the laundry service) to order something of his/her choice off of the menu. They each were given a printed ticket and paid for his/her own lunch and calculated the gratuity. It was a great time. (I have pictures of this also.)
At the end of October, students will load buses at 7:00 am and travel to Longview. Students will board the Texas Express, an Amtrack Train, to Dallas. Students will then have lunch at El-Fenix and then conclude our day with a visit to the Dallas World Aquarium. We are excited about visiting places that are in our curriculum and have hands-on experiences in the big city of Dallas. Our current events story in News2You is about the recently released movie, Dolphin Tale 2. Students are learning about aquariums, sea mammals, and will do a really neat science experiment later in the week. Next week, we will learn about Hispanic Heritage, which is observed September 15th - October 15th each year. Our trip to Dallas will give students a personal experience to make their learning more meaningful.
STAAR Update
Here is a link to give you a broad overview of the STAAR tests that our students can take this year. Basically, our students will take STAAR unless they are in special education, 504 or ESL. If these students are going to take a test other than STAAR, the ARD, 504 committee or LPAC committee must make that decision. The link has hyperlinks to give you an overview of each test.
Here is a link to the page that has the TEA Accommodation Manual from last year. In order for a student to be able to have accommodations on the STAAR test, they must be used regularly in daily instruction with the student and the student must meet the eligibility requirements to use the accommodations.
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