CILT Parking Lot by Jared Tavares

General Questions From CILT Presentations

jtavares — 2024-09-12 14:46:22 UTC

5th Grade ACP Timing Concern

2024-11-13 22:20:57 UTC

ACP is listed as a 120 minute test with 27 questions. This is about 4.4 minutes a question, which is significantly faster than the 6 minutes per question based on a 4 hour STAAR test with about 40 questions, where all students receive extra time to finish as needed. Please adjust this ACP timing to reflect elementary students and to better align with the STAAR testing environment for which students are practicing.

6th Grade Science ACP

2024-11-13 22:22:11 UTC

K-6 Region 3 campuses received their HMH science kits yesterday, 11/12. This means for three months sixth grade science teachers have lacked the curricular resources needed to provide effective instruction. Has this instruction interruption been communicated to the TEI Department by the Science Department? It would be unfair for the MOY science ACP to be counted on teacher TEI scorecards when they have lacked the resources for instruction.

Mystery Science

lyakovuk — 2024-11-13 22:28:33 UTC

Do we have access to Mystery Science? If not, can we get it? It is one of the resources my students really enjoy when we need extra practice or additional review for something.

Interactive Notebooks and Anchor Charts

2024-11-13 23:18:19 UTC

The HMH curriculum does not provide the resources to create an interactive notebook for students to reference after the lesson. Everything is digital. The students need something tangible they can use to review the material.

5th Grade Science

2024-11-13 23:22:31 UTC

Why is the STAAR simulation so early in the school year, before we have had the chance to teach all the TEKS? Will it be modified to cover only those TEKS that should have been taught by mid February?

9th Grade Biology

2024-11-13 23:39:09 UTC

There are a disproportionate number of TEKS for biology in semester one versus semester two. This leaves little to no room to recover from curriculum interruptions (TSI testing, PSAT, field trips, assemblies, etc). Semester one is 21 TEKS. Semester two is 6 TEKS. This holds semester one accountable for over three-quarters of TEKS for the entire year.