Team Members:
Janine Herbertson, Kelly Mathews, Holly Wellensiek, Jan Zabukovic, Glenda Mechling, Paula Kuhns, Carole DeLuca, Cindy Stanton, Pat Jones, Bonnie Ward, Sara Thompson-Pittenger
The work from 2007-2008 has been archived here.
2009 - 2010 Work
Members Present: Jan Zabuckovic, Carole DeLuca, Cindy Stanton, Jan Schmidt, Paula, Kuhns, Glena M,echling Holly Wellensiek, Sara PIttenger
Get Jacque Law to come and talk to us about what measures can we use to assess Vocab Initiative (Nov 20th at 2:00).
SPED presentation??? - NOT
2008 - 2009 Work
The Closing the Achievement Gap group is doing a book study on The Vocabulary-Enriched Classroom by Block and Mangieri. We will meet on December 5, 2008 to discuss chapters 1-6 and best practices in vocabulary instruction.
Since there are Discussion Questions at the end of each chapter, you might want to use them to start the conversation for December 5. I provided a starter for you. :)
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Question 1: What instructional behaviors and actions does an exemplary teacher of vocabulary consistently exhibit?
LRT related: What professional development needs to happen to ensure that teachers have these behaviors and actions?
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Question 1: Construct two cloze assessments.
LRT related: Can we design some cloze assessments at each grade level to put on EASy?
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| January |
Finish reading The Vocabulary-Enriched Classroom |
Discuss questions at the end of chapters 7-10. |
Chapter 10 will be the springboard for our presentation in April. Bringing Words to Life--examples for elementary, middle, and high school examples.
Page 166--overarching questions for the entire presentation.Glenda--page 199 defend and reject sentences. Jan--193 learning impaired. Pat--page 167-168 & page 102 Vocabulary development. Carole--page 193 new goals. Page 103 selecting Tiered words. Page 73 3000 words a year in grades 3-8, but teachers can only direct instruct 400 words a year. Read Aloud in grades K-7. Page 50, 51, 144--affixes, root words, context clues, background knowledge. Page 193 Jan's quote.
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Plan on 4 vocabulary strategies/activities to share - 1 primary elementary, 1 intermediate elementary, 1 middle school, 1 high school.
Kelly is willing to create a powerpoint for our training with the highlights for vocabulary as a strategy to close the achievement gap. (input will be neccessary)
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February 27th
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Read Bringing Words to Life (entire book) |
Be ready to discuss. |
Holly will inform group about the district closing the gap committee.
Glenda will keep the ppt updated.
Paula will email the Tier I, II, III slides to Glenda.
5 multi modes--visual, auditory, kinesthetic, spatial, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal.
Jeanine--context clues, interactive fun thing--Language acquistion skills at the beginning of the ppt.
Paula and Jeanine--Maurice Sendak thing.
Brain research says music should be integrated with the presentation.
Frayer model will work for high school students.
Cindy--Dictionary Day stuff.
Kelly will facilitate acting out words. Each table group will act out words.
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Prepare presentation |
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present on April 17 |
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Comments (5)
Vince said
at 6:45 pm on Jan 26, 2008
Theresa M. Bartalo: Wow! I am signed up to be in this group. It sounds like you all had a very interesting and wonderful conversation today. What is the expectation by our next meeting? When does the research begin. Sorry that I couldn't be there...I had my "mom" hat on this afternoon.
janine herbertson said
at 8:00 am on Feb 4, 2008
Dear Closing the Achievement Gap group,
When we last met I promised to send a group email so here goes... Please read over our free-flow thought processes to see how we came upon one potential action research question. I encourage you to add any of your own thoughts concerning closing the achievemnt gap. We can specifically use any research to support what others are doing to close the gap, or any resources that speak to closing the gap. Thanks for your input team, Janine
Janet Zabukovic said
at 12:28 pm on Feb 28, 2008
Dr. Donna Y. Ford and Dr. Gilman W Whiting, both of Vanderbilt University, are nationally recognized experts in the impact of cultural diversity on education. They gave an incredible presentation at a seminar arranged by Gary Marx to highlight ways to close the gap that exists in the underrepresentaion of minority students in the gifted/talented population. They stress that "Culturally diverse students are culturally diverse 24 hours a day, 7 days a weekk." We need to be aware of these differences and how the implications on curriculum, instruction, assessemnt, and learning environment if we hope to close the achievement gap. I would strongly encourage the district to find a way to bring these folks to our district for district-wide staff development since we are all dealing with this issue. It's no longer just about socio-economic status.
Paula Kuhns said
at 5:32 pm on Dec 1, 2008
Okay, so I'm in Vince's wiki class right now, and just learned how to insert a table. Aren't you impressed! I guess I really need to be reading our book and posting my thoughts/questions about that. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who has yet to post any comments regarding our first six chapters. Maybe tonight.... :-)
Paula Kuhns said
at 3:51 pm on Dec 8, 2008
If you missed our LRT PLC last Friday, you missed a good one. I think we've all decided that we really like our group! What a bunch of good people :-) It was good to hear each others' thoughts on The Vocabulary Enriched Classroom, chapters 1-6. What a great resource. It is very user-friendly with activities for teachers to use immediately. We think all schools should have the book...ideally all teachers. We discussed how best to get these activities in the teachers' hands. (Ideas: model one activity at each Staff Mtg, share them during Professional Development times, etc).
A table of tasks/activities has been added above with monthly tasks for our group between now and our presentation on April 17th. See you all in January.
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