tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26373120806685477902024-03-06T00:34:15.650-08:00Secondary SistersStories from our Middle School ClassroomsSecondary Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443374634109491845noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2637312080668547790.post-5840114697592352622013-11-26T14:13:00.003-08:002013-11-26T14:13:22.828-08:00Good News Calls and Parent Teacher Conferences <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday was Parent-Teacher Conferences at my school. Though I had met most of the parents before, I was still nervous, but overall they went great. I love getting to meet my students’ parents, as so often I can see exactly where my students get their personalities from. It is also fun to get to tell parents how great their child is. Although conferences are littered with the conversations of your child “is talkative”, “needs to stay in his seat”, or “needs to do her homework”, it is always easy to come up with good things to say about each student (which parents love to hear!).</span></span></div>
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Sometimes I look over what my seventh grade students are expected to do and
become slightly overwhelmed. They are so
new to the concept of a rigorous, daily social studies course, and the reading
and writing tasks can be daunting. I am doing my best to break it
down for them visually so that the process is more easily understood. This week, we are focusing on the following
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completing this chart to help them with the task of citing textual
evidence. While the initial set-up was
challenging for many of them, most have found success once I provided one-on-one support. I think this will be a graphic organizer we
go back to throughout the year, and I am hoping they will develop into text
evidence pros by June!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Secondary Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443374634109491845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2637312080668547790.post-65388002003575943542013-10-29T14:19:00.001-07:002013-10-29T14:20:30.385-07:00Informational Text: Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom<b id="docs-internal-guid-649e3d3a-0612-a3d7-9d4c-8a5627f69eb0" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are officially working in our Social Studies Department PLC this year on the goal of raising standardized test scores in the informational text strand for a selected target population group. Holy smokes! Our goal is to help 75% of our identified students become proficient in this by the end of the school year. Why?!? (I often need to remind myself of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">why</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, as this is quite the process…)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am lucky to work with a group of teachers that firmly believe that they too are teachers of reading in their secondary content area classes. We do not just teach students dates, places, and battles! Our team integrates literacy within social studies to help students use text evidence to support their arguments, summarize main ideas and central messages, evaluate how word choices and structure contribute to the author’s purpose, and offer deep analysis regarding context and audience. At least this is what we are trying to do, anyway :)</span></span></div>
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Secondary Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443374634109491845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2637312080668547790.post-92122297383819431512013-10-14T09:33:00.002-07:002013-10-14T14:18:44.180-07:00Literacy in Math Class<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a presentation on
literacy in the classroom hosted by a professional development speaker. Initially
I was apprehensive about the presentation; what ideas could I apply to my math
class from a speech about literacy? As in any good professional development
seminar, I walked away with many things to ponder and new ideas I wanted to try
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different types of reading students need to be competent in. She also
demonstrated how students can organize their thoughts and writing with graphic
organizers and how it is important to incorporate reading and writing
strategies across all disciplines. I started to think about what reading and
writing I currently bring into my math classes. This year, we have been writing
more in my classes by practicing extended response problems. I observed that most
of my students fit into four major categories when working on word problems:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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graphic organizer (shown below) to help my students solve and explain these extended
response problems. Most of my students are at level two or three and will be
able to meet my objective of solving and explaining extended response questions
through classroom instruction. My level four students will receive challenge
problems to help them stay engaged and challenged as I walk through the
organizer with the rest of the class. After the class looks at it, I will make
sure to pay special attention to my level one students as we go through more
examples and utilize pull out groups if necessary. I realize these strategies may
need some adjustments, but I am excited to work putting these ideas into
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Secondary Sistershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02443374634109491845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2637312080668547790.post-76563142557389926752013-09-30T14:31:00.001-07:002013-09-30T17:23:38.014-07:00Post-Test Processing<span id="docs-internal-guid-64fd0c5f-70c4-3c3c-1e74-5f39bc52de73"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What do you do when some students show mastery of content on a test and others demonstrate little to no understanding of what you have been teaching for the last month? As a social studies teacher, I have found that this scenario is common in my classroom. I cannot just move on to the next unit when some of my kids have not demonstrated that they have met our learning goals. This is where my Post Test Processing activity comes in.</span></span></span><br />
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font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While reading and discussing Mrs. K’s last post with her, the book </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The First Days of School</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Harry and Rosemary Wong came to mind. If you have not read this book, I highly suggest it! I had the opportunity to see the Wongs speak as well, and I can honestly say the knowledge I gained from them has been more useful in my teaching than information from any other source! The book goes through setting up rules, procedures, classroom management, positive expectations and everything else a teacher needs to start off the year on a positive note.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I looked back through </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The First Days of School </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">before I started this year just to make sure I did not forget anything. Mrs. K’s post talked about setting up procedures and routines in the first days of school, and I find this just as important as she does. Because I work at a private K-8 school, I have many of the same students I had last year (only three students are new to the school at my grade levels). This factor makes it difficult to set up any new-to-the-students routines and procedures or change any of my existing ones. It may take a couple weeks, but after practicing and reviewing the new procedures I know my students will get the hang of them -- middle school students are very adaptable! Here is a list of the routines I will continue and the routines I want to change or refine:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">For those of you like Ms. H that have kiddos back in the classroom already, bless you! I am sure you are exhausted (*understatement*), but I hope you had a fantastic week :) My students return the day after Labor Day, so I am still in scrambling/planning mode over here. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I think about returning to the 7th grade classroom (I am coming off a two-year stint as THE 6-12 social studies teacher in a remote Alaskan village -- more on that to come!), I am reminded that seventh grade students sure have special needs! Especially when they are new to our 7-12 building and transitioning to the secondary classroom. Establishing routines really helps students to feel comfortable in your classroom, and it can curb behavior issues. Consistency is key, people!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Explain the use of folders- show students where to keep ‘Bell Work’ worksheet until their collection at the end of the week</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meet the Secondary Sisters!
We are two middle school teachers (and sisters!) who are excited to
share our classroom adventures with you as we begin a new school year. We live in different states and teach
different subjects, but we both LOVE what we do! A little bit about the sisters:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7th Grade Social Studies Teacher</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Teaches at a 7-12 public school in a rural Midwestern area</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beginning 5th year of teaching</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BA in Social Science with minors in Secondary Education and
History, working on MEd in Reading and Literacy Education</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Certified in 5-12 Social Studies</span></li>
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Teacher</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Teaches at a K-8 private school in an urban Midwestern area</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beginning 2nd year of teaching</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BS in Math Education and BA in Secondary Education with
endorsements in math and business</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Certified in 5-12 Math and Business</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Follow us as we swap stories, resources, and our lives in
the secondary classroom!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Mrs. K & Ms. H</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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