How will I incorporate Common Core into my curriculum?
By incorporating the Common Core State Standards into my lessons I am preparing my students for their college careers as well as the workforce. I will do this using the backwards design model of lesson planning. The Common Core Standards also help me ensure that I am meeting objective outcomes for each lesson. Since these outcomes are objective and measurable, I am able to give evidence that learning has happened within my classroom.
How will I meet the diverse needs of my learners?
By differentiating instruction, presenting material in multiple sensory formats, I will meet the diverse needs of my learners. Using tools such as books, videos, audio recordings, or direct instruction I will meet several learning modalities. Performing group work and completing projects will enhance learning through collaboration and hands-on methods.
How will I help my students organize their assignments?
Students will each have a STAR(students take action & responsibility) homework binder of their own. This binder will include their agenda, classroom newsletter, school calendar, a communications pocket for notes to and from school, and slip-covers for homework assignments. By using a binder I will work with students to help them learn organizational skills so they can be successful in completing their home work before the next day's classes. Students will be required to get their homework assignment page in their agenda signed by their parents each night. The agenda page will be checked the next morning during the morning break routine by the teacher.
How will I handle behavioral issues in my classroom?
I will start by having clear expectations and guidelines for my classroom. This will be explained, rehearsed, and reinforced during the first weeks of school. These rules and procedures will continue to be reinforced throughout the school year. Along with these expectations and guidelines, I will explicitly explain consequences that are fair and logical for infractions in the classroom. By consistently reinforcing expectations and guidelines, and being fair and consistent with consequences, students will know what is expected of them as students and what to expect as consequences for infractions.
How will I communicate with parents and/or guardians?
I will use agendas in the classroom, part of this process will be parents checking and signing their students' agenda each night. I will also include in the STAR binder the classroom newsletter and a communications pocket for me, as the teacher, to send notes home. I will also have a personal communications log book that will track notes I send to parents either in a STAR binder, or through email, and phone conversations. I will keep this communications log book confidential by storing it in my desk. By keeping up frequent and consistent communications with all my families, I will facilitate parent-teacher communications in a timely manner.
By incorporating the Common Core State Standards into my lessons I am preparing my students for their college careers as well as the workforce. I will do this using the backwards design model of lesson planning. The Common Core Standards also help me ensure that I am meeting objective outcomes for each lesson. Since these outcomes are objective and measurable, I am able to give evidence that learning has happened within my classroom.
How will I meet the diverse needs of my learners?
By differentiating instruction, presenting material in multiple sensory formats, I will meet the diverse needs of my learners. Using tools such as books, videos, audio recordings, or direct instruction I will meet several learning modalities. Performing group work and completing projects will enhance learning through collaboration and hands-on methods.
How will I help my students organize their assignments?
Students will each have a STAR(students take action & responsibility) homework binder of their own. This binder will include their agenda, classroom newsletter, school calendar, a communications pocket for notes to and from school, and slip-covers for homework assignments. By using a binder I will work with students to help them learn organizational skills so they can be successful in completing their home work before the next day's classes. Students will be required to get their homework assignment page in their agenda signed by their parents each night. The agenda page will be checked the next morning during the morning break routine by the teacher.
How will I handle behavioral issues in my classroom?
I will start by having clear expectations and guidelines for my classroom. This will be explained, rehearsed, and reinforced during the first weeks of school. These rules and procedures will continue to be reinforced throughout the school year. Along with these expectations and guidelines, I will explicitly explain consequences that are fair and logical for infractions in the classroom. By consistently reinforcing expectations and guidelines, and being fair and consistent with consequences, students will know what is expected of them as students and what to expect as consequences for infractions.
How will I communicate with parents and/or guardians?
I will use agendas in the classroom, part of this process will be parents checking and signing their students' agenda each night. I will also include in the STAR binder the classroom newsletter and a communications pocket for me, as the teacher, to send notes home. I will also have a personal communications log book that will track notes I send to parents either in a STAR binder, or through email, and phone conversations. I will keep this communications log book confidential by storing it in my desk. By keeping up frequent and consistent communications with all my families, I will facilitate parent-teacher communications in a timely manner.