Check out our Spring newsletter for TAP at Wilburn! Great food for thought....
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Check out our Spring newsletter for TAP at Wilburn! Great food for thought....
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Our next Cycle is upon us! This week we will be starting a new strategy with teachers that incorporated math and literacy. Our students will be using a strategy to help them improve their reading comprehension through math word problems. Here is an article on reading and math problems that will enhance our teaching of the skill. More will be posted soon about the actual strategies that grade levels are using.
Welcome back kids, parents, and teachers! We are excited to start the new year with a bang. We will be introducing a new strategy to our students called QAR (Question-Answer-Relationship). Please take a look at the articles below to help you gain a deeper understanding of the strategy. Looking forward to a strong start! Teachers...if you have taught this before-share your thoughts and ideas...what worked in your classroom?
In this post you will find the parent newsletter for the month and the current strategy we are using Pre-K through 5th grade at Wilburn! You can also find these items under the TAP in Action Tab and the Newsletters Tab.
Please take a moment to read through our first newsletter...please feel free to post any questions or comments here after reading.
Please check out the communication timeline we have planned to help keep everybody informed about TAP throughout the school year. Let us know if you have any questions or concerned! We are adding this to the Important Documents page as well.
The first indicator on the TAP Instructional Domain is Standards and Objectives. Why are they important? More importantly...as teachers how do we make them purposeful and effective for our students? Here is an article to contemplate and reflect on...http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may11/vol68/num08/Objectives-That-Students-Understand.aspx
What are your thoughts? "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe."
— Abraham Lincoln How do we meet the needs of all of our students? When I think of meeting the needs of all of our students, I think about the ideas of support and challenge. The only way to both support and challenge all of our students, is through effective designing and planning of our instruction, student work, and assessment. Last week we discussed instructional plans in cluster and this week we will be discussing student work. As we continue to discuss these areas and think about the Common Core Curriculum, we cannot leave out rigor. Here is a link to an article that discusses rigor: http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/110077/chapters/[email protected] What are your thoughts? Check out what is going on around Wilburn! First you can see Ms. Ehrhart's Early Finisher Procedures using the Looks Like/Sounds Like Strategy. Next, check out how Mr. Maloney embedded the Consensus Map into his PE classroom. The third picture is the Consensus Map Strategy used in our cluster to review the Learning Environment Domain of the TAP Rubric. Never a dull moment around here! Keep sending us your pictures and check out the website for many different updates...let us know if there is something you would like to see on the website that we do not have up currently!
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