Welcome to Back-to-School Night Mr. Todd Room 605
Introduction Education ● Broad Ripple High School (2005) ● Bachelor’s Degree from Wabash College (2009) ● Master’s Degree from Marian University (2013) Teaching Experience ● 5 years at Mary Castle Elementary (all in 6th grade) ● 3 years at Winding Ridge (Building Sub, Resource IA, Intern) *Interests include coaching and playing ice hockey, hiking, cooking, gardening, and creative art projects, traveling
Instructional Beliefs ● Every child is capable of learning ● Everyone has a job to do ● Academic success looks different for each student ● Students must be the driving force behind their education ● Best practices utilize a combination of independent, partner, and group work ● Role of the ‘teacher’ is to facilitate student learning by providing engaging and challenging learning opportunities ● Similar to a sports team, a productive and successful classroom is the result of an entire group moving in the same direction, towards the same goal, knowing that no one person is more important than the group
Hopes and Dreams for my Students ● This year, I hope my students will … . ○ gain confidence ○ make new friends ○ enjoy learning for the sake of learning ○ persevere when faced with challenges, both social and academic ○ make Mary Castle (and the world) a better place ● My dreams for my students are that they will … . ○ experience success in school and go onto college or enter into a field of work that they enjoy ○ be productive, contributing members of society ○ grow up to be happy and healthy in mind, body, and spirit
Arrival Procedures Whole Group Time Small Group Time Independent Time Expectation #1 -Begin work promptly after -Follow SLANT -Keep conversations on topic -Keep conversations to a arriving and greeting friends -Active Listening -Stay engaged with your group minimum T ake Charge -Stay on task throughout -Ask questions -Be aware of the task and time -Ask questions to clarify task morning work -Be engaged frame -Be aware of the task and time -Do your share of the work frame of Your Learning -Use notes and resources Expectation #2 -Keep conversations and voice -Start and stop transitions with -Keep voices at a working level -Refrain from making level to a minimum the rest of the class that is not disruptive to others unnecessary noises R espect Others -Keep matters outside of school -Have supplies and material -Use manner while talking with -Let other students remain “outside of school” ready to maximize instructional your small group focused and on task -Get supplies ready for the day time -Do your share of the work -Keep work and answers to and Learning to make use of instructional -Don’t talk while someone else -Respect your partner or group yourself time is talking members’ opinions -Do not shout out correct Environment answers Expectation #3 -Check your homework before -Take notes and make -Perform tasks specific to your -Ask clarifying questions turning it into basket corrections for later use role in the group -Use personal notes and O wn -Read the morning message -Use resources and notes -Help keep partner or group resources -Prioritize your morning tasks -Ask clarifying questions members on track -Turn in assignments on time -Get homework questions -Complete work within the Responsibility answered given time frame Expectation #4 -No playing or roughhousing in -Keep hands, feet, and objects -Stay in your seat or work -Stay in your personal space the morning to yourself space during group work time T hink Safely -Take chair down carefully -Stay seated, whether in a chair -Handle chromebook safely or on the floor Take down chair safely
Dismissal Procedures MATH ELA SS/Science Expectation #1 -Make sure you have all -Ask questions -Ask clarifying questions -Use notes and resources assignments and resources -Use your resources and notes -Use resources and notes -Read passages carefully and T ake Charge necessary for homework -Check your work with a -Read the passage carefully with a purpose -Efficient dismissal procedures calculator and with a purpose -Use chromebook to extend leaves more time for instruction -Take chances and do not be your learning of Your Learning afraid of making mistakes -Keeping hands and feet to - Listen to math partner’s ideas -Help explain reading, writing, -Listen to partner or group Expectation #2 yourself -Use “group” and “partner” and literacy skills to those in member’s ideas R espect Others and -Model procedures for lower work strategies need -Share the responsibility of grades -Do not give away answers -Maintain a quiet environment group and partner work equally -Keep all electronics safe and while others are reading -Maintain a quiet environment if Learning Environment put away -Do your own work people are reading a lesson -Modeling by example Expectation #3 -Ensure you have all -Show all work -Use peer pressure in a -Ask questions to clarify assignments and homework -Use resources and notes positive way content O wn Responsibility before leaving -Make corrections on your own -Read questions first before -Stay caught up with -Put up chairs and chromebook paper reading a passage assignments and finish at and leave a neat and tidy -Annotate the text when home if necessary space possible -Check and correct work when reviewed in class Expectation #4 -Clean room up in orderly -Keeping personal space if -Keeping personal space if -Keep personal space when fashion down on the floor for down on the floor for working on the floor or around T hink Safely -Put chairs up slowly mini-lesson mini-lesson the room -Face forward and stay in a -Use whiteboard and markers -Use whiteboard and markers -Follow procedures for single file line when walking to appropriately appropriately experiments carefully buses (science) -No horseplay
Before you leave tonight, please write a note sharing your hopes and dreams for your son or daughter this school year.
Instructional Shifts in Lawrence Township ● SOAR with Joy (Students Obtaining Achievement through Rigor) ○ Standards-based classrooms ○ Increased expectations for both students and staff ○ More rigorous learning targets ○ More opportunities to show what you know and show what you are thinking ○ More frequent monitoring for learning and checks for understanding ○ Students take a more active role in monitoring their own learning and growth ○ Prepare students for 21st century jobs We are not teaching them what to think; we are teaching them how to think.
65 PERCENT OF TODAY’S STUDENTS WILL BE EMPLOYED IN JOBS THAT DON’T EXIST YET Yes – you read that right. 65 percent of today’s schoolchildren will eventually be employed in jobs that have yet to be created, according to this U.S. Department of Labor report. That also means that many currently employed workers for the first time since the industrial revolution must be thinking about what they will do to make a living 10 to 20 years from now. Rapid technological change is changing the skill requirements for most jobs. Just as manufacturing saw a shift from 80 percent unskilled jobs just 30 years ago to 12 percent today, the next decade will see a shakeout of unskilled jobs in early every industry.
Daily Schedule MORNING AFTERNOON ● 7:45 - Gentle Entry ● 11:55 - Lunch ○ Journals, vocabulary, Lexia, ● 12:25 - Recess Dreambox ● 12:40 - Read Aloud ● 8:10 - Daily Math Review / WIN Time ● 1:05 - Channel 1 ● 8:45 - Related Arts ● 1:20 - Writing ● 9:30 - Math ● 1:45 - Social Studies ● 11:00 - Reading portion of Language ● 2:30 - Dismissal Arts block
Chromebooks ● Chromebooks are used throughout the day for a variety of purposes ● All students must complete “21 Days” on Canvas and have acceptable use / policy signed by parent and returned to school before taking Chromebook home ● Chromebooks stay with students for 4-year cycle so it is very important they are properly maintained ● Downloading apps and programs not approved by the district increase the risk of malfunctions in your Chromebook ● Students can have the Chromebook privileges revoked if the student established a pattern of misuse ● Chromebooks will occasionally be required for homework, but students will know in advance if they need to take their Chromebook home with them.
Skyward is the district grading system. Canvas and Skyward Families can access Skyward and monitor student grades by subject. Canvas is an online program used in a ● Grades are updated regularly. variety of ways in the classroom, ● Midterms reflect raw scores in including but not limited to … Skyward ● Discussion boards ● Final grades will take into account ● Video and resource links effort and may be adjusted if ● District assessments necessary ● Assignment and Project ● Grade adjustments are by nature submissions subjective, but every effort is made ● Weekly online tests and quizzes to be fair and constructive
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