Category: Professional Development

If you are interested in starting Daily 5 for literacy, or Daily 3 for math in your classroom, join us to receive a copy of this book and explore how to set up this program.

The Daily 5 enhances classroom practices based on years of experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. 

The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy and math time to increase student independence and allow for individualized attention in small groups and one-on-one support.

For more information, contact Math and Science Program Consultant Donna Morgan at Donna.Morgan@sd41.bc.ca or Tanis Anderson at Tanis.Anderson@sd41.bc.ca.

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I love this video Shelley Moore created!   Click on the link below!

Transforming Inclusive Education – Shelley Moore

As promised, here are the slides from Iain Fisher’s learning team, session one.

Iain Fisher october 2017 slides

Here is a video on clsroom assessment from the BCPVPA.

BCPVPA Classroom Assessment Video

Here are Sharon Jeroski’s slides she used, and will be using, for this year’s Communicating Student Learning series!

Sharon’s powerpoint csl 2017 2018

Thank you to everyone who participated in our self regulated learning cohort last week.  Here are the slides:

October 10, 2017 Slides (Day)

Workshop for Secondary Teachers!

Dan Adrian, Burnaby School District’s SOGI Support Teacher, is offering a workshop on the novel “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe”.  He will share his experiences in how he taught this novel, and attendees will receive access to all the resources he has created.  Dan can follow up with you in your classrooms, and co-teach lessons with you.   

Date: Tuesday October 24, 2017

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Location: Moscrop Secondary School Library ​

RSVP:  Dan.Adrian@sd41.bc.ca

Feel free to invite colleagues from out of district, as well as student teachers.  

I love this book!  Check out the short video clips.  This would be great to show at a staff meeting or professional day to start a conversation about what we value in our reading instruction.  

Disrupting Thinking Video Clip

Video clip #2

As promised, here is the reading conference template that was shared at Faye Brownlie’s assessment workshop last night.

Before we did this particular type of conference, we had spent much time on the following:

• teaching students how to pick a book that was a “just right” book for them.
• teaching students many strategies for when they get stuck on an unknown word.
• teaching how to make connections.  “This story reminds me of….”

So when we sat down with this template, it wasn’t the first time our learners heard this language.  It made the conversations natural, and just like every other day.  The “assessment” wasn’t an “event”.

Enjoy!

reading conference template word document

reading conference template pdf

In preparing for a workshop, I was reminded of this wonderful document, by one of my favourites, Richard Allington – 6 things our learners need every single day!  Click below for more details:

http://www.prn.bc.ca/lyrics/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Every-Child-Every-Day.pdf