Fourth Grade Team Minutes 2015/ 2016
8/26/15 Extended Planning
-Discuss beginning of the year procedures
-make sure to display learning scale and performance
-beginning of the year assessments (make sure iReady is completed in a timely fashion)
-Writing – following same format as last year? What planning sheets are we using? Is FSA for writing going to be paper-based or on the computer?
----continue OREO at the moment, beginning with Opinion (follow writing as used last year)
----need to decide when we are doing baseline
9/2/15 Extended Planning
-Writing – using Lucy Calkins
(check out materials and decide how to incorporate into writing instruction)
-Ms. Simms suggests TEAC (Topic Sentence, Evidence, Analyze, and Conclusion)
-What is the sheet for Informative if at all?
-CARE cycles are 4 weeks. Make sure you are specific on what you are remediating or enriching. On 4th week, we assess the standards.
-Remember – performance scales, learning goal, and learning goals
-FOCUS on remediation and enrichment (must be specific)
-Darby: SES Band 5
9/16/15 Extended Planning
-RTI: which students should be on RTI
-the RTI process and documentation
9/30/15 Extended Planning
-discuss Team leader notes
-Multiplication Challenge procedures (Oct 30th in the AM)
-make sure ESE progress reports are completed on time
-Ms. Block will be working with students on LLI
-make sure ALL students have complete iReady diagnostic
-bathroom in PE area SHOULD NOT BE USED OR PROPPED OPEN!
-if you are parking in faculty lot, make sure you leave by 3:20 or gate will be locked
-ELOP: are you interested in offering a class? If so, discuss with Mr. Darby and create a blurb advertising your class
10/1/15 After School
-revising and editing CARE assessments
-how are students currently progressing through cycle?
10/7/15 After School
-review definitions of learning scale and learning goal (pulse check is something different)
-discuss scoring essays (What should a 4 in PFO and EE look like?)
-have baseline data ready as soon as possible
10/28/15 Extended Planning
-using BEEP for monthly prompts (some prompts are neither opinion or informative??)
-team decided not to use planning sheet for sheets with OREO
-will use OREO format for instruction but not have printed planning sheet for students (they tend to use as a crutch) (requiring students to have two reasons)
-procedures for running whole group writing instruction (model paragraph by paragraph how to write the essay)
-will have peer editing and use document camera to display student writing for instruction
11/5/15 After School
-Are students finding OREO easy to follow?
-continue to work on developing reasons and evidences.
-conventions seems to be a weakness (focus on indentation, run-on sentences)
11/12/15 After School
-need to make sure we are dedicating time towards writing instruction
-are students going to be required to take FSA Writing on the computer? If so, what are we going to do to prepare students?
-teachers are seeing students more engaged in writing
-peer editing is working well
12/2/15 Extended Planning
-Sedlack: DBQ Document Based Questioning Training being offered by district
-two teachers from the grade level will be attending training and bringing back to team
-pacing guide for CARE assessments around holiday break
-will assess at the end of the week we return
-make sure to review standards as much as possible
-encourage students to study all skills taught this cycle during holiday break
-we will be meeting on our next extended planning or team meeting to discuss CARE assessment question and edit as needed
-Once we have returned from holiday break, we will discuss grading writing and being consistent among the grade level
-it is essential to use the rubric when grading
12/10/15 After School
Discussed team leader notes
1/6/16 After School
Discussed team leader notes
Review and edit CARE tests