Homecoming is next week! The theme is "Do you believe in magic?" The parade and game vs. W.T. White will be on Friday, along with the dance at the DFW Grand Hyatt Hotel on Saturday. Please email waltersb@cfbisd.edu if you are interested in chaperoning the dance...you will not regret it! R.L. Turner students look wonderful and the talent on the dance floor will amaze you. Mr. Wisener will send the parade schedule and don't miss Lion Revue on Thursday night. Remember, your enthusiasm will be contagious, help make this a great time for our students!
As an added bonus, we will have two Spirit days next week. Please wear jeans and a Turner shirt on Thursday and Friday! GO LIONS!!!
Instructional Tip for the Week:
Learning Goals
An amazing bit of research: When students know what they are LEARNING, their performance, on average, has been shown to be 27 percentile points higher than students who do not know what they are learning.
How can we make sure students know what they are learning?
By focusing each day on our Learning Goal at the beginning, middle, and end of the period.
What should a Learning Goal look like?
A learning goal is not an agenda. (i.e.: Students will watch film clip and complete worksheet in groups v. Students will understand the similarities and differences in the governments of the Roman Republic and the United States.
- Instructional goals narrow students’ focus.
- Instructional goals should not be too specific.
- Students should be encouraged to personalize the teacher’s goals.
As a teacher, I ask myself regularly…
- To what extent do the Learning Goals address essential knowledge?
- Will the assignment assess, or enhance the learning of, the knowledge in the Learning Goal?
- Given the learning goal, is the assignment worth the time?
- Are there aspects of the assignment that would require knowledge other than that in the Learning Goal? If so, are we teaching that knowledge or assuming that knowledge?
- When I set objectives, to what extent do I believe that my students
- Could describe what they are learning, not just describe what they are doing
- Focus more on learning goals than completing assignments
- Personalize the learning goals
MINDSET MINUTE
This week in PD, Georgeanne talked about how to share Mindset in a systemic way with our students. Please use the link below and share with your students the language of Mindset. We want this to be a part of conversations we have with all students.
“People are all born with a love of learning, but the fixed mindset can undo it.”
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DIGITAL COFFEE
Boomers, feeling a little misunderstood around all of these millennials? Join the crowd.
Having trouble speaking the language of your millennial learners? No worries, just be like Joe Cocker and check this clip from Woodstock as he butchers this classic Beatles song.
Talk about feeling misunderstood! YIKES!
After the clip, here are some new words from these Bull Market Babies:
Next time you encounter a member of the Millennial Generation, try incorporating these:
Bacn: impersonal e-mails (as annoying as spam) that you have chosen to receive, such as alerts and newsletters.
Bershon: that angry/bored/too-cool-to-care look that 12- to 18-year-olds sport in every family photo.
Compunicate: to chat with a co-worker when you are in the same room using Instant Messenger instead of speaking to them in person.
Defriend: to remove somebody from your established list of contacts, considered the ultimate snub on a social network.
Lifestreaming: posting an online record of a person's daily activities, such as blogs.
Meatspace: referring to real life or the physical world and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality.
Moofer: derived from the acronym for "mobile out of office." Someone who abandons their workplace between meetings, taking laptop and Blackberry to the local Starbucks or anyplace else where they can escape the interruption of talkative co-workers.
Passion bucket: a metaphor for a job or endeavor that can fulfill one's sense of mission and ambition.
Peachfuzz billionaires: when someone launches their first startup in middle school and ends up a budding teeny mogul on the cover of a magazine.
Have a great weekend,
Lance
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