Today we were able to continue working on our PCKI focus groups. Jaime and I began our writing goal work a few weeks ago and it has progressed over the past few weeks. Just to update you a bit on the papers you may have noticed coming home, we started with Jaime writing goals for each student in their writing areas. We quickly realized how time consuming this would be to do on a weekly basis, which is what we really wanted to have happen ideally. So we decided that we would teach the students how to write their own goals, which we call 'SMART goals'. We have been working over the past two weeks to be really explicit in our teaching and really allow the students the time they need to really be reflective about their learning. They have worked on creating goals for themselves in math (the papers that came home last week) and this week they are looking even better! Now that we feel they have a good foundation in goal writing, we will work on having them write specific goals for themselves in writing. We look forward to seeing how this transforms over the next few weeks. How amazing is it to see second grades setting goals for themselves and reflecting about themselves as learners?!
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Friday PLC's
You will find information about what the teachers at Bill Roberts are learning about and exploring during our Early Release each Friday from 1pm-3:30pm. Archives
May 2013
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