Expectations from Students CLOSE TO Promotion of Students Success

10 Expectations From Students

Carolyn Cameron, one of the most open and progressive principals, shared the following video regarding student expectations for school.  The first point was that it was important to build relationships and know students as individuals. The nine other points are things that she really believes in, but it was great hearing it from a student perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96c-TGnSf4

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RESULTS AND INDICATORS OF STUDENT SUCCESS. 

This Community suggests nine results, both short and long term, that are essential for student success. Please note that interaction between the “conditions for learning” may contribute to more than one result. 

Short Term Results :

◆ Children are ready to enter school 

◆ Students attend school consistently 

◆ Students are actively involved in learning and in their community 

◆ Families are increasingly involved in their children’s education 

◆ Schools are engaged with families and communities 

Long Term Results: 

◆ Students succeed academically 

◆ Students are healthy—physically, socially, and emotionally 

◆ Students live and learn in safe, supportive, and stable environments 

◆ Communities are desirable places to live All of these results move community schools towards contributing to the larger impact of: students graduate ready for college, careers, and citizenship. 

http://www.communityschools.org/assets/1/AssetManager/CS_Results_Framework.pdf

The First Days of School

How To Be An Effective Teacher

THE FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL

By Harry K. Wong & Rosemary T. Wong

Outline

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 1 – Why You Need to Succeed on the First Days of School

• What you do on the first days of school will determine your success or failure for the rest of the school year.  You will either win or lose your class on the first days of school.
• There is overwhelming evidence that the first two to three weeks of school are critical in determining how well students will achieve for the remainder of the year.
• Student achievement at the end of the year is directly related to the degree to which the teacher establishes good control of the classroom procedures in the very first week of the school year
• Effective teachers are able to affect or make an impact on their students.  A teacher’s role is to open the door to learning.  Effective master teachers know how to get their students to enter for learning.  To make an impact on your students, you need to use effective teaching practices.  Students learn only when the teacher has an appreciable effect on a student’s life.  You have arrived as a teacher when you reach this stage.  You have gone beyond mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Establishes good control the first week of school.

Ø  2.  Does things right, consistently.

Ø  3.  Affects and touches lives.

(CM) Unit A – Chapter 2 - What Is an Effective Teacher?

• The Three Characteristics of an Effective Teacher…An effective teacher…

Ø  1.  has positive expectations for students.

Ø  2.  is an extremely good classroom manager.

Ø  3.  knows how to design lessons for student mastery.

• It is essential that the teacher exhibit positive expectations toward all students.
• Well-Ordered Environment + Positive Academic Expectations = Effective Classroom
• Student success in the subject matter of the class will be the result of how well the teacher designs lessons and checks for mastery.
• The Effective Teacher

Ø  1.  Exhibits positive expectations for all students.

Ø  2.  Establishes good classroom management techniques.

Ø  3.  Designs lessons for student mastery.

Welcome back to School

The back to school period of time usually lasts from mid-September through late-June in Spain. In United States, Europe and Canada the school period lasts from mid-July through early/mid-September. In Australia and New Zealand, this usually occurs in January, while in Malaysia, this period lasts from late November to December. In India the back to school starts in the month of June. In Japan, which is unusual in that it starts its school year in spring.

In merchandising, back to school is the period in which students and their parents purchase school supplies and apparel for the upcoming school year. At many department stores, back to school sales are advertised as a time when school supplies, children's, and young adults' clothing goes on sale. 

 


Office supplies have also become an important part of back to school sales, with the rise in prominence of personal computers and related equipment in education: traditional supplies such as paper, pens, pencils and blinders will often be marked at steep discounts, often as loss leaders to entice shopper to buy other items in the store. Many states in America offer tax-free periods (usually about a week) at which time any school supplies and children's clothing purchased does not have sales tax added. 

After all sale period, the real sense of school comes: Students are exposed to new subjects, new knowledge and new responsibilities and duties:

One of the most difficult school subjects for the students during the academic year is Maths and English. We all know about what Maths is envolved, but children already know how difficult and complex English Grammar is.

English language grammar includes an ever-unfolding set of rules. As a subject of study, it's more deep than broad: students in the early grades learn a basic overview of parts of speech and sentence types and as theyadvance in grade level, older concepts are broken into more complex systems.

In that way, English grammar is like the branches of a tree, with new rules and concepts extending outward from previously learned principles.

School Closed!!

Yes, we are closed, but here you are some activities to do during summer time. We hope you enjoy them all!!!

http://blocs.xtec.cat/montjuicenglishclass/2011/06/

The benefits of a bilingual brain

It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier - like travelling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? 

Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmOLN5zBLY

Our School wishes you a very nice summer and remember that we will be back in September. Keep practicing your second language!!!

The Role of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101/phonics

Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. Children are taught, for example, that the letter n represents the sound /n/, and that it is the first letter in words such as nose, nice and new. We've found great apps that give kids practice with basic phonics skills, including recognizing the letters of the alphabet, learning upper case and lower case letters, alphabet matching, and word building. These apps help kids work on listening skills while also practicing spelling and building their vocabulary.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/reading-language/reading-tips/what-is-phonics/

https://www.eduplace.com/lds/article/phonics.html

The Role of Phonics in the Teaching of Reading:
A Houghton Mifflin Position Paper

A reputable body of research substantiates the positive effects of well-designed phonics instruction and provides guidance about the form that instruction should take. The following research conclusions guided the development of Houghton Mifflin's newly published program, Invitations to Literacy:

• Phonics is an essential part of a comprehensive approach to the teaching of reading.
• Phonics instruction needs to be explicit and direct; incidental and opportunistic approaches to developing phonics are less effective.
• Phonics instruction can and must be meaningful, lively, and engaging; phonics should not be equated with repetitious drill or the mindless completion of worksheets.
• In order for children to gain full use of phonics skills they need guidance in integrating them with other word identification skills and in strategically and fluently applying those skills.
• In order for children to gain full use of phonics skills they need many opportunities to apply them to functional and interesting reading and writing activities.
• While the development of phonics and other word identification skills is essential and necessary for skillful, mature reading, it is not sufficient; skillful mature reading must also build upon language, vocabulary, and concept development as well as a variety of thinking skills.

Inter-School Competition in Casariche now

It was a very exciting competition.