Thank you to Aja Geddes, teacher from Capitol Hill, for sharing some great strategies she uses with her students to keep them excited about reading!  Aja has generously offered to share these ideas with us!  

With this “Book Request Sheet” students can write down books they want for the classroom or school library.  

Book request sheet

With the “Someday list” students can keep track of books they want to read.  Perhaps they heard about a good book from a friend, and don’t want to forget about it!

reading-My Someday List

With this “top picks” form, if a student really liked a book, they can fill out one of these sheets, and they get displayed in the classroom.  This is a great way to generate interest in a variety of books.  This is done in book stores in real life, so how great it is to bring this into the classroom to create excitement around reading!

Top Picks – books

If you have something you’d like to share, that sparks a love of reading or writing in your classroom, please send it to Tanis.Anderson@sd41.bc.ca

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.

 See attached for more information. 

Register on the Staff Development Calendar.

Daily5 Daily3

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.  

Thank you to Denise Ferreira, English Department Head at Byrne Creek, for sharing these rubrics she uses with her secondary students.  She explicitly teaches her students how to use these rubrics, and provides much modelling. 

This single point rubric has many purposes, such as: 

• giving feedback to students
• a summative assessment
• a self-assessment

denise SINGLE POINT RUBRIC 2

The second rubric is a self-assessment rubric.  This could be used for students to process and engage in while they are working, and then handing it in when they submit their work.  It helps students to see what they think they can do as they are heading to a more formal assessment. 

Denise – self assessment for c competencies and skills

Enjoy!

We are having a book club with this book!  Click on Reading Zone Book Club below for more information, and register on the staff development calendar.

Reading Zone Book Club