Thursday, June 27, 2013

Kindergarten CVC Awareness

Hello Early Childhood Colleagues!

Below is a link to a video that is posted on the Teaching Channel. It is of a kindergarten classroom practicing CVC Awareness. The Students are sounding out, blending and reading CVC words then making the motions.

Vicky

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teach-phonemics

Kindergarten Letter of the Week

Wow-It's been almost a month since my last post!
Well, I've been surfing the Teaching Channel for some Early Childhood videos and I found this one and wanted to share it with you. It's a kindergarten classroom that walks you through the routine of "Letter of the Week". This Teacher uses a story, a song and an art project as she introduces each letter.
So if you are an Early Childhood teacher take a couple minutes to watch.

Vicky

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/letter-of-the-week-s-is-for-scarecrow

Friday, June 7, 2013

Formative Assessment PD

Norman Elementary had it's first Formative Assessment Professional Development Workshops.
It was attended by all PK-5th grade Regular Education & Special Education Teachers.

Topics that were covered during the PD were:
-What is Formative Assessment
-Summative vs Formative Assessment
-The Formative Assessment Process
-Student Engagement
-Self & Peer Assessments
-Exemplars
-Writing Folders
-Formative Assessment Tools

We also watched videos (just click on link to watch):

*The Formative Assessment Classroom:    http://youtu.be/rL54bfmZPzY

*Self Assessment and Peer Support:    https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/peer-teaching--2

Other FA Videos featuring Norman Elementary Teachers
*Kylene Nix-Math Formative Assessment:   http://youtu.be/u60Rj-aW9WI

*Jackie Clark:

*Sue Rice







Thank you FAME Team for working so hard to pull it all together & Thank you teachers for being engaged and sharing things that you learned from the PD or things that you already do in your classrooms.

Vicky