Thinking about online presence and student learning objectives….

This week Tuesday, teachers are going to be working together to share their experiences of working with various online grading options, blogs, or Edmodo.  You may have already received an email or notice from your students’ teachers requesting that you respond and sign up so you can view grades at your convenience.  Please be sure to reply as soon as possible so we can better work together to ensure that your student stays on track for graduation.  Teachers will also begin working on their student learning objectives (SLO) over the next few weeks.  SLOs are the core of teaching and learning.  Teachers need to ask themselves four essential questions when considering their SLOs for this year:

• What are the most important knowledge/skills I want my students to know and be able to do by the end of the interval of instruction
• How will I know if my students have met the learning goal?
• What are my learning expectations for each student?
• What strategies will I use to ensure that all students meet the target?

Our entire Professional Development Day on September 2^nd will be dedicated to learning about writing effective SLOs – from setting the learning goal, creating an assessment plan, determining effective targets, and choosing optimum instructional strategies.  All schools in the West Complex will be involved in SLO training on the 2^nd which means that students will have a four day weekend coming up.

Here’s an excerpt of this week’s staff bulletin:

Meetings/Activities this week:          

                                                                                   

Tuesday August 26, 2014

•        EXTENDED FACULTY meeting – 1:45 to 3:45 pm in LRC and various breakout sessions for last hour.  Please bring your laptops with you

Wednesday August 27, 2014

•          6 pm – ELL parent night at LRC

Friday August 29, 2014

•         First KIF regular season FB game against Kapaa at Hanapepe Stadium.  JV at 5 pm; Varsity at 7:30 pm

Announcements/Reminders:

1.        If you have 10^th and 11^th grade advisories, please check the WHS teacher resources and let your students know what their WHS gmail account is.  If they need help, please refer them to Mrs. Ishida for assistance at the LRC. SPED teachers – we have tentatively scheduled your 10^th and 11^th graders for three sessions in S103; that schedule will be distributed this week.
2.          We will replay the support breakout sessions (the ones we had to cancel last week b/c of internet issues….) at this week’s extended meeting.  Please bring your laptops with you to the meeting.
3.          Please be sure to check that students are in school wear in the morning.  If they’re not in uniform, please send them to the office for follow up.  Thanks.

Have a great week everyone!

Mrs. Anguay