September 3rd PLC Minutes

September 3rd PLC Minutes

In attendance: 
Nancy Peden
Jamie Russell
Stephanie Coslow
Amy Tucker
Lorraine Harris
Joni Masterson
Jessica Scheerhorn

Celebrations: 
5th grade reading scores 70% proficient and distinguished according to MAP!

KPREP Data: 
Students have been categorized by scores and grade level.
Teachers went in a made comments next to student names to give current teachers more info.

Lesson Planning Formative Assessments: 
There is a trend in lesson planning throughout FHE:
          *Discussion of targets and "I can" statements.
          *Activities and assessments need to be congruent with learning target.

Differentiation: 
Discussion of differentiation strategies for low and high achieving students.
Given Handout.

Tools for Formative Assessments: 
60 strategies that require minimal teacher prep time.

Sharing formative assessments: 
Peden-Brought exit slip about similie and metaphor. Could quickly see if they got it or not. Reviewed it immediately.

Coslow-Brough exit slip about inferencing. The majority of students missed a question on inferencing because they were focused on the explicit details. Students have difficulty understanding when they made an inference.

Masterson-Grammar Minutes-Take data on that and teach a mini lesson. Working on prepositions, they caught on except for when they were at the beginning of sentences. Reteaching.

Peden-Paired students. One student was a mannequin and the other student had to pose them based on a feeling. Helped with understanding the difference between explicit and inferencing.

Harris-Using a checklist and whiteboard to take data on whole group. Read a slip of paper, students wrote answer down on board, teacher said show down, she could quickly look at boards and take data for reteaching purposes.


Book Study: Read pages 1-11. Next PLC we will discuss.

Number Talks-Team leaders will have the book in the room and we will start with a game plan in the near future.