January 7 - Grade window opens
January 11 - Lori West - Birthday
January 12 - Wings Party - (FYI - this will be a trip to the movies)
January 13 - Faculty Meeting
January 14 - Robyn Dickerson - Birthday
January 15 - Collaboration Day
January 16 - Deanne Faraone - Birthday
January 18 - No School - MLK Day
January 20 - Brandi Compass - Birthday
January 21 - Board Meeting
January 22 - Shalyn Copas - Birthday
January 25 - Cindy McIver - Birthday
January 27 - Bethany Noles - Birthday
January 28 - 5th Grade Collaboration Day
It has been a long time since I wrote on my blog, so if I missed your birthday, I apologize and happy belated birthday.
SLO's
The SLO process seems to be a big deal and one that is just a little overwhelming. So, I thought we should try to break it down into small tasks. After all, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
Start a document and type the answers to the following questions:
1.) What learning objective am I going to use for this process? Is it an ELO? Why did I choose this standard (rationale)? How is it connected to my students' needs? How and why are the instructional strategies appropriate and rigorous?
2.) What information is being used to create this SLO and establish the amount of growth that should take place? What evidence do you have of what your students know and can do? What are your sources of data? Summarize their performance.
3.) Which students will be included in this SLO (subject, grade level, number of students)? Are there specific issues I should be aware of? How many IEP? ELL?
Some of these questions will require some collaboration with your PLC team and some of the will require collaboration with your pod. Your learning objectives and rationale are a PLC conversation. Your student population is pod specific (and could be different between classrooms depending on iep's). Don't stress about it, but start to have some conversations and get some thoughts on paper.
If you have questions or are unclear what I am asking for, send me a note. I would be glad to help in any way I can.
Here are some links to resources:
SLO Exemplars
The SLO Checklist (We are working on the first three areas)
This is the DESE site with all the info about SLO's
A little video for you Science nerds out there...
They also have a great periodic table tune:)
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