Monday, July 28, 2008

PST - 9

Please finish Teaching With The Brain In Mind... by tomorrow! Just kidding! Tomorrow's meeting will be about the brain in mind. The last set of postings... and the last meeting (August 5th) will be conclusions. Narrowing our ahas, and identifying 4-8 strategies that you are committing to using in your classroom throughout the year.

Post away, see you Thursday (seriously... I'll be there).

I'll also have CSAP results! Last year I made the chart where we looked at 3 scores:
Advanced & Proficient
Advanced
Unsatisfactory
Last year Altona had 7 #1 scores and 9 #2 scores between the Advanced & Proficient and Advanced. This year we had 13 #1 scores and 2 #2 scores between the 20 assessmsnts and the 12 middle school's in the district! On top of that, our Unsatisfactory scores were virtually halved! Pretty impressive!

Monday, July 21, 2008

PST - 8

This week the goal is to make through chapter 9. I'm particularly interested in chapter 8, and I assume a clean organized classroom is a happy classroom! A final staffing update... I hope. Brooks Ramsey has taken a position with the Poudre School District and we are now in the internal posting phase next week. That means we have lost 12 and added 6 new teachers to the Altona staff this year!

Fire away!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

PST - 7

We begin Teaching With The Brain In Mind this week. Some of you have taken a course with Marci Tate so this might not be "new" information. I'd like us to make it through Chapter 3 this week and before our meeting on Tuesday. On Tuesday I'd like to start with our thoughts and conclusions thus far, then move into brain research.

Comment away, see you Tuesday!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

PST - 6

I know, I'm late again! This weeks posting is really just a breather from our last 2 books. Any ahas? I certainly have a few, but I'll abstain until reading yours. This next week we begin our last book Teaching With The Brain In Mind, 2nd edition. I'll see some of you next Tuesday and I'll have an on time post this Sunday... I promise!

Comment at will!