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Thursday, September 17th Professional Learning Opportunity – for EC5 Administrators

Thursday, September 17th Professional Learning Opportunity

From Alicia Miguel

An opportunity has been made available for Principals to attend a session led by LSI around??Monitor??for Learning. This will be an effort to focus on how to monitor within professional learning sessions. Since this relates directly to the goals outlined in the growth plans, principals will attend??this??session on??Thursday, September 17.??Because of this session, principals will not attend the ??Thursday??session with the writing consultant, which is a full day of projecting units with Isoke Nia.??TLs ??will attend Ms. Nia???s session, where they will project the next Unit of Study for 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.
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Information on the LSI session:
Monitor for Learning
In a standards-based classroom, teachers must continuously check where students are in their learning. Learn how to use classroom formative assessment to help students hit their learning targets. This hands-on session gives teachers techniques, tools, and resources to monitor for learning during a lesson, using assessment tasks, and adapt instruction based on student evidence.
Outcomes
??????? Plan to monitor during a lesson toward a learning target
??????? Plan how to identify evidence of effective instruction
??????? Apply appropriate monitoring techniques to check for evidence of learning
Adapt instruction based on monitoring evidence