Classroom
Math - Small Group Responsive Teaching
Groups are created heterogeneously or homogeneously depending on the lesson or formative assessment data. Each group receives time with the teacher, watches a video, completes independent practice, and has time to complete an IXL Skill Plan activity. The student's IXL Skill Plans provide students with practice skills based on their NWEA RIT scores. I try to change the groups and rotation activities to keep things fresh, or to include rewards, challenges, and math related games.
English Language Arts
ELA lessons include a combination of Fountas & Pinnell's Reading and Writing Mini Lessons and Scholastic Storyworks. The mini-lessons are used to introduce new strategies which is then supplemented with Storyworks articles. I also use F&P's Guided Reading program daily with leveled reading groups.
Classroom Library Digital Checkout System
I pride myself on using technology in most aspects of my teaching and how I organize my classroom. Every book in my leveled library is scanned into a Booksource Classroom database that the students access to checkout and return books for independent reading.
Book Shopping
Checking books out through Booksource Classroom
Science Collaboration
In Science, I try to implement a similar approach with my small groups as I do in Math. One group receives direct instruction from me at the kidney table while the others are watching a video or investigating. At the start of some units, groups are tasked with reading a text and compiling the important information on each topic onto a poster. Each group presents their findings to the class.
Educational Programs Used
