Welcome
back – Week #4!
This
week we are working on interpreting and establishing goals for students. I am one to always set goals FOR students,
but I can’t say that I have been great about setting goals WITH students. So as I was reading this week’s chapter, I
was excited to think about how I could make this work with firsties!
First,
Jennifer suggests that you look through the data you analyzed – looking through
strengths and weaknesses – to find places for growth that are the same across the
assessments. Finding a place for growth
that could effect reading and writing.
She also talks about and 80/20 strategy.
What goal would provide 80% of the difference with one goal?
She uses
this sentence stem to help you articulate the goal
I think ________ could learn
(reading goal) and (writing goal) because in reading I noticed _____ and in
writing I noticed_______.
Here
comes the part that will be tricky for me – goal setting with the student. I am all about working with a student to come
up with a goal, but I think it is going to be VERY challenging to have the goal
be articulated by my firsties.
One
thing I do REALLY like about her conference is that she leaves the student with
a post-it with a note about what he or she will be working on (either in words
or in pictures) to help remind the student what he or she is working on. I also plan on setting some dates with kiddos
when I meet with them to keep us both accountable!
We have
another great giveaway this week – More WINNER”s CHOICE items – I LOVE to shop,
so hopefully you do too and will enter!
Then,
don’t forget to read all of the other bloggers thoughts about this week’s
chapter.
Finally,
come back next week when we start to make an action plan. I don’t know about you, but I have been
waiting for this chapter!!
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