Tag: Growth Oriented

Choosing to Demonstrate Advanced Knowledge at Lindsay

Teacher Marla Earnest explains how students who achieve proficiency on a standard can choose to demonstrate deeper mastery.

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Transcript: Marla Earnest: The fours are always student choice. If they want to show that they have advanced knowledge of this particular topic that’s a voice and choice issue because what we want is we want proficiency in all of our learners. Yes, we want them being pushed to the advanced, but it’s not my choice. I offer them that level four. And honestly, we have more and more learners wanting that level four, even in our English language classes. They want to show, “Hey, I got this. I’m advanced. Let me show you.”

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August 10, 2016

Teachers Collaborating over Data at Lindsay

Teacher Marla Earnest explains how teachers have collaborative “data chats” to facilitate planning.

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Transcript: Marla Earnest: We do. We have data chats. It’s more of like a learning community. It’s more like a PLC. So we talk about, “Oh hey, this kid – have you noticed what their reading score looks like? Well what are we going to do to make sure that they’re able to read the text in science?” So those are the kind of conversations we have. And it’s much more of a PLC kind of thing, where we’re coming together as a learning community to work with specific sets of kids.

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August 10, 2016

Students’ Choice in How to Use Personalized Learning Time at Lindsay

Brandy Quintero, a Lindsay teacher, explains how students sign up for Personalized Learning Time.

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Transcript: Brandy Quintero: Is the PLT. So kids get to sign up. We have a flex time manager and they get to go in and see what their teachers are offering on Tuesday and Thursday for an hour-and-a-half at the end of the day, and they get to sign up to what class they want to go. If they don’t sign up with a class, they get to go with Ms. Moore who’s our in-school suspension/detention lady. So we’re trying to teach them, “You do have to sign up for something. You can just say, ‘Oh, there was nothing I needed.'” And then we have opportunities for kids who are on pace in all our classes and don’t need that personalized learning time to get caught up for extra support. Some teachers are doing like woodwork, like creative stuff. One of the teachers, he’s looking at maybe doing some like boxing stuff next year. So like just kind of fun things, because you’re on pace, so it’s not a whole elective course for it. But during that PLT time you can work on something else.

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August 10, 2016

Real-Time Interventions During Reading Fluency Practice at Lindsay

Teacher Marla Earnest explains how daily reading fluency works benefits English language learners.

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Transcript: Marla Earnest: The way our classroom works in a day is we have a reading fluency that we do in every class. It’s really nice that ELD learners get that extra time to work on their reading because many of them need it. So we start with 20 minutes of reading time. We have a couple programs that we use. We use Reading Plus; we use Lexia for our learners who are a little bit lower, and our newcomers use DuoLingo. Because as they’re working the data is populating I am able, in the moment, to see what a learner needs. And I have one-on-one conversations with them so I’m not disrupting the reading of the whole room.

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August 10, 2016

Overview of Empower at Lindsay

Teacher Marla Earnest explains how she uses the learning management system, Empower, to track student progress and provide support.

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Transcript: Marla Earnest: It’s a progress monitoring system, and the way that it works is it allows me to see, as learners are working, as I’m inputting data, as they’re turning in work that’s personalized to their levels I’m able to see each day what group of kids still needs instruction in a particular learning target. So I can pull up Empower, there’s a note there for kids who’ve not mastered this particular learning target. I know I can pull them out and I can work with them in a small group.

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August 10, 2016

Using Data to Monitor Progress at Lindsay

Teacher Marla Earnest explains how Empower helps her manage her own class as well as see how other instructors are managing theirs.

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Transcript: Marla Earnest: Since we started with Empower – we’ve used Educate for years, and Educate is a system where we could put in data. It was a little bit slow, very spreadsheet oriented. This is a much fuller picture of what a learner can do. And I can see not only the playlist that I’m giving them but as other learning facilitators are using the program I’m able to see what they’re doing in their other classes, which is great for ELD because now there’s much more cross-curricular. So within Empower I actually have attached both Write to Learn and IXL. So that data comes to me through Empower. It’s not like I’m having to do outside data. It’s very interactive. And so my data all goes to one place. The only one that I have to look at separately is their reading data, Reading Plus and Lexia, and DuoLingo. But I only have a few kids. I only have maybe 15 kids doing DuoLingo. So that one’s pretty quick; maybe once a week I have to upload that data. Mostly with Reading Plus and Lexia I have it projected as the kids are reading. So I’m doing that in the moment.

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August 10, 2016
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