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Good discussion on how to organize learning centers some pros and some cons  How can best meet the needs of all learners

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Many good conversations and points, including more communication btw home room teachers/special ed teachers and UA teachers re: needs and potential home issues. Good talk about sharing some commons tools. Additional topics included classroom setup (physical setup) and how to structure the routine of the classroom the first few weeks of the year.

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So crucial that we  understand "behavior is communication" .  Better communication with unified arts teachers will be beneficial for our students. So interesting to  listen to different colleagues, their roles in our school, and how we are all working through behavior challenges within the different environments.

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I am inspired by the work done in the fifth grade classes. Also, Martha gave some resources from The Comprehensive Guide to Narrative Writing that will help kids negotiate the prompts they will be given. Deciding on what graphic organizers to teach them to recreate and how to remember what to do with them is the big task.

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So important for us to be proactive rather than reactive to behavior.  Not easy to do.
With complex behaviors, some strategies work, but only short term. We find ourselves back to the drawing board.

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"You can change your behavior to help change your student's behavior"

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Thank you colleagues for sharing your experiences and ideas.

Thank you Josh for facilitating.

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Communication with others is always helpful when discussing student behavior. It is helpful to learn we aren't alone in the struggle.

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Took a look at paperwork and discussed possible changes.

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Streamline paperwork
Shift checklist to back of doc
Refine questions to be more teacher friendly/less time needed to fill out

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Some suggestions that will be helpful to implement for behavior issues in my class.
just interesting to talk with people that have some of the same issue.

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Beginning the process of streamlining this process. What do teachers want from the process and what information does the SAT team need to better assist.

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Provided opportunity for teachers to discuss how we will be utilizing the new state graphic organizers as well as structuring writing lessons to incorporate them.

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We gathered various resources for narrative responses to literature. It was nice to collaborate with both fourth and fifth grade to share resources.

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Interesting.  Fosters independence.  Gives more structure than centers.  We have schedule restraints.

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We extended our list of resources for people to create lessons.  We shared idea for areas of focus.

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Important to gain feedback from teachers about what they are hoping to gain from SAT. This will help guide any paperwork changes.

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allows teacher the opportunity to differentiate integrate, foster independence and adapt lessons. Focus lesson sets the tone while centers provide practice and choices. I charts serve as a daily reminder to students of appropriate behavior.

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I like that it increases stamina and independence within the classroom. It also gives structure to many activities that may already be done in the classroom.

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I like the idea of fostering independence through the daily 3 routines.  I would like to see it at work in the math classroom, especially with students of diverse learning needs.  The visuals for what independent work looks like, I Chart, are a great idea.

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Fosters independence while allowing for small group instruction.  Similar to centers but more structured.  Builds endurance while offering student choice for engagement.

- Christi and Sue

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Interesting method to instruct and group for lessons. I would need to watch this in action to know more.

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Daily 5 and Daily 3 provide more structure to math and reading lessons while also incorporating the content included in Reading Street and Envision programs. I liked how it allows for more opportunities for students to work independently while teachers can focus instruction on small groups.

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Trying to streamline the process while giving pertinent information.  Priorities:  what strategies have been tried and data collected?

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Some really great ideas about the Narrative Writing and Response to Literature  writing. Helpful to hear what others are doing and how they are using graphic organizers to support the writing. Loved the double bubble character comparison idea! Thanks for the ideas and thoughts.
-Colleen

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Scaffolding various ways to use graphic organizers to help when planning writing would benefit students. Pulling from various texts when comparing/contrasting text. Re-writing the Look Back and writes on the weekly tests to include a more in depth questions.
-Sarah N.

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Encourages independent work and frees up teacher time to help others.

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There are unique challenges to implementing centers when you teach across multiple grades.  One good suggestion was using checklists to make sure students are completing tasks.  The tasks need to be designed to be easily understood - using visuals can help with that.

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Although we came across many challenges such as varying learning levels, organizational issues, care of materials, it seems that we would like to use them more often.
Some great tools we discussed include using timers and/or checklists so that students and teachers can track progress.

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Co-teaching is wonderful in theory, but difficult to implement given schedule restraints and large caseloads.  The group discussed the need for additional adults within every classroom in order to implement the 6 suggested models.  The team-teaching model was the model we were all most interested in, but the most impossible one now because there are not enough special educators to support every general educator.

- Julianne, Beth, Jenn, Erin, Tina, Christina, Alicia

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Preparation for learning centers takes a lot of time but the benefits  to teacher and students could be worth it.  Less teacher directed - more students moving at their own pace.  Also frees up the teacher to move around the classroom to help those that need a little extra attention.

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Thank you 5th grade for the novel ideas for looking at the LB&W of RS to help the students be prepared for the MCAS/PAARC type questions connecting the literature to narrative writing format.