Happy New Year, everyone! In an effort to incorporate technology into our intervention staff developments, and as a way to give everyone a chance to reflect and share their thoughts, we have initiated this blog. We will post questions after each intervention meeting that are intended to give you an opportunity to reflect, plan, and share ideas you have about implementing the ideas we discuss in our staff developments.
In thinking back to our December 10 meeting, we discussed the notion of looking at standardized tests as a genre and how that might benefit us as well as our students. We'd like you to answer the following questions and as you have time, read and respond to others' posts as well:
1. What is something that struck you from our analysis of the TAKS test as a genre?
2. How has this (or will this) affect your teaching?
In preparation for our January 21 meeting, please answer the following:
1. How do the cognitive strategies (monitoring for meaning, determining importance, drawing inferences, questioning, mental images, summarizing, synthesizing) fit with preparing students for standardized tests?
Reminder: Our next meeting is at 8:00 on January 21 at SFMS. In preparation for that meeting, please read pages 41-109 of Put Thinking to the Test. For those of you who have not yet received your book, they are coming!
Margaret Hale
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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