Coach's Retreat Day 2!

8:30 – 9:00 Icebreaker

• Human Scavenger hunt
• Qualities of a favorite teacher 
• Compassionate, energetic, creative, encouraging, interesting, facilitator, positive, fun, challenging, engaging, prepared, share personal strories, high expectations, fair, passionate, knowledgeable, humourous, genuine, caring, nice, motivating, hands-on, intelligent, approachable, clarity, authoritative, not a traditionalist, consistent, enthusiastic, quality

 

9:00 – 10:20 Classroom scenarios

• Building rapport between and with teachers
• Helping a teacher feel empowered when she/he is close to retirement
• Helping a new teacher through her/his first year 
• Karen Rivers is setting up a mentorship program for new teachers through UALR
•  kyrivers@ualr.edu 
• Helping a teacher work through a teaching rut

 

10:20 – 10:25 Math classroom observation protocol

 

10:25 - 11:20 Using teacher data: questions, answers, next steps…

 

• Looking at data and determining “did they grow?” 
• Student CAN gain and meet growth goals, AND STILL can negatively grow 
• We need to show students their scores
• Even if they do not meet growth goal for the year, they can still have a LARGE amount of growth
• Manipulating data is a powerful tool for beginning conversations
• Tinkerplots

 

12:20 – 3:00 Breakout Session with Beth

• Analyzed item by item data
• Designing PD
• Bring in specialists to correlate standards
• Sometimes this can go awry
• Renew everyone/ be positive
• Problem solve- let teachers solve the problem
• Find the things that are common
• Teachers and Coach can pull stuff for specialist
• Think about curriculums for after school tutoring
• Think about getting teachers to choose to do things they like
• Cooking, art, chess, etc…
• Take the data and look at the items that are best/worst
• PD plan for 2010 – 2011
• June 7, 2010 – Report cards, rubrics
• August 13 - backward design for rituals routines and classroom environments
• K – 2 Booker
• 3 -5 Romine
• Feb. 14 – How to move a student to proficiency
• Regional PD 
• AEA Days – Lesson study
• Lesson Study clinics
• Problem types
• Tech
• Set up a leadership team that will be the go to people to help the communication about standards based report cards
• This team will also share at open house
• THEN after parent conferences rubrics will be posted online for parents
• Need to have family Math night
• 50’s night
• Carnival night
• Tickets
• Stickers
• Bank
• Buying/selling
• Sell things kids make 
• Regional meetings
• AEA Days
• Lesson Study
• Proboards/Live Chats – every 2 and 4