FEBRUARY 12, 2016 In Socorro ISD, our students experience the use of technology to create meaningful, digital learning environments that engage them in high-quality lessons, activities and projects every day! The official Digital Learning Day will take place on February 17, however, area schools will be closed due to the safety and security measures in place for the Papal visit to the borderland—but that will not keep us from showcasing SISD digital learning to the nation! So we encourage everyone to participate by taking pictures of your students in action using technology at your campus so we can share them on Twitter. All Socorro ISD schools are encouraged to showcase all of the wonderful opportunities we provide our students to use technology in daily learning by posting tweets with descriptive captions and the hashtags #SISD_DLD and #DLDay If you don’t have a Twitter account, email your pictures to: [email protected]and we will take care of sharing your pictures to the Socorro ISD Twitter feed. See more at: http://www.digitallearningday.org The Division of Instructional Materials and Educational Technology (IMET) at the Texas Education Agency needs assistance from teachers and others across the state interested in reviewing new instructional materials for languages other than English (LOTE) submitted in response to Proclamation 2017. These are the specific languages and grade levels for which reviewers are needed: Chinese, all grades French, elementary and middle school German, all grades Italian, middle and high school Japanese, elementary school Latin, elementary and middle school Spanish, all grades The materials are scheduled to be reviewed during the summer of 2016, adopted by the SBOE in November 2016, and available for use beginning in the 2017– 2018 school year. Nomination forms for those interested in serving on the state review panels for Proclamation 2017 are available on the IMET website. If you have any questions, please contact (512) 463-9601 or [email protected]. Attached is a list of Summer Professional Development to be offered for teachers during the summer intersession. Please share with your teachers and encourage their attendance. More information will be provided on locations and all sessions will be available for registration on the staff development website in the next few weeks. Instructional Rounds – As a reminder, Instructional Rounds for the month of February have been cancelled. Rounds will resume in April. Digital Learning Day - #SISD_GLOBAL February 2016 Reminder: ROBOCOM 2.0 will take place at Pebble Hills High School, February 6, 2016 Updates to the challenge can be found at www.sisd.net/robotics.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2016
In Socorro ISD, our students experience the use of technology to create
meaningful, digital learning environments that engage them in high-quality
lessons, activities and projects every day! The official Digital Learning Day will take
place on February 17, however, area schools will be closed due to the safety and
security measures in place for the Papal visit to the borderland—but that will not
keep us from showcasing SISD digital learning to the nation! So we encourage
everyone to participate by taking pictures of your students in action using
technology at your campus so we can share them on Twitter. All Socorro ISD
schools are encouraged to showcase all of the wonderful opportunities we
provide our students to use technology in daily learning by posting tweets with
descriptive captions and the hashtags #SISD_DLD and #DLDay If you don’t have a
Twitter account, email your pictures to: [email protected] and we will take
care of sharing your pictures to the Socorro ISD Twitter feed.
Why guided math? The benefits of guided math are similar to the benefits of guided
reading.
· Flexible grouping based on ability/needs/interests
· Scaffolding of more difficult concepts
· Reteaching and exploration of math concepts in a smaller
risk free environment
· Increased teacher knowledge of student abilities
· -Regan Tunstall Warm up
Whole Group Teach
Guided Practice
Small Group/Rotations
Reflect/Share
Upcoming Trainings and Events February 13, 2016
MSL4ELL
February 20, 2016
District Math Bee
Eastlake HS
Science News
Math News
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Secondary
Please take a look at the calendar provided by Academic Services in
regards to our campus visits. If there is anything in particular that you would
like for me to do while at your campus, please let me know.
Focus of the Month
Station Based Learning is a great way to tier assignments and activities. Try
and implement a station based learning day once a week.
Thank you to our high school campuses for a successful science fair;
we truly appreciate the time and hard work that goes into preparing
our students to compete. And thank you again to Pebble Hills High
School for hosting our events – we look forward to seeing you again
for ROBOCOM 2.0! Almost 200 projects will be making their way to
the Sun Country Regional Science & Engineering Fair to be held
February 20, 2016, at the EPCC Administration Buildings. Good luck to
all participants!
Congratulations Campus Sweepstakes
winner MECHS!
Did you know?
Extracurricular activities can benefit students
Students can learn time management and prioritizing.
Extracurricular activities can raise a student’s self-esteem.
Students are able to build relationships and practice
teamwork and social skills.
Students can explore various interests and become more
diversified.
Students can learn to commit themselves to long term
projects.
Extracurricular clubs often contribute to schools and
communities.
Extracurricular activities expose students to experiences
that colleges look for on applications.
Social Studies News
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Elementary
Integrating Social Studies and ELAR is a great way to “kill two birds with one stone,” especially since many of the Social Studies Process Standards align with
Figure 19. Careful planning can lead to successful activities where students learn writing skills and social studies facts at the same time.
Station Idea of the Month: Celebrate Black History Month or Presidents’ Day
Have students research a historical figure from their grade level TEKS that fit either celebration. Students can then create a lap book on different aspects of
the person’s life. Students can use foldables, Thinking Maps, and text features to cover a variety of reading comprehension skil ls.
This month in history: Did you know…? On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart in flight over west Texas, killing all seven crew members on board. In 1848,
the war between the U.S.-Mexican War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. With the end of this war, the U.S. acquired California,
Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas.
Secondary
5 Easy Steps to Teaching Vocabulary Development in Social Studies
As we move into the next phase of curriculum development in Social Studies across Socorro ISD, it would help us to remember some of the basic steps that
will become the focus for part 2 of our series on “Second Language Acquisition for Secondary Social Studies Students (SLA for S4).” The second, 3-part series,
will focus around strategies toward teaching vocabulary development through a 5-step process.
Step 1: Identify the academic language you want students to learn. This step is important because we oftentimes take it for granted that students know certain terms without actually analyzing whether or not we think it would
be beneficial to teach such terms. With an infinite number of resources, there are plenty of things that we can be doing to focus our teaching in Social
Studies around specific vocabulary – the first step in doing so is to focus on the right words.
Step 2: Tier the academic language. Our tendency as Social Studies teachers is to focus on unit specific academic language focused on Social Studies – oftentimes termed Tier 3
language. However, sometimes our students do not understand the use of certain terms and how they apply to Social Studies specifically. These terms are
oftentimes used across multiple content areas and have not always been taught explicitly in the classroom – these are oftentimes termed Tier 2 words. It is
important for us to categorize words as Tier 2 or Tier 3 words in order to make a conscious effort to actively, purposefully, and explicitly ensure that ALL of our
students are effectively learning and applying Tier 2 language.
Step 3: Define the academic language that you would like students to be able to apply. There is something to be said for “looking up” words’ definitions. However, by the time that students are at the secondary level (grades 6 through 12), it is
more important that students be able to apply the words’ definitions effectively. Therefore, it is in our best interest as teachers to provide a student-friendly
definition of the words that we would like students to be able to apply any given day. As a teacher focuses on 5-7 words per day, it is important that some of
those words be Tier 2, but it is also important that the students have an accurate definition that they can refer back to in order to apply the term
appropriately. This means that the teacher may be responsible for providing them with materials, tools or verbalization of teacher-paraphrased definitions for
key words.
Step 4: Have students apply the academic language purposefully. Similar to the 3rd principle for creating effective second language learning environments in Cruz and Thornton’s (2013) Teaching Social Studies to English
Language Learners, this step focuses now on ensuring that students are actively reading, writing, listening and speaking with the use of the specific
academic language that you want them to learn. Whether it is something as simple as applying their knowledge of a word to fil l-in-the-blank work (which
should be timed and limited in terms of application), utilizing a specific group of words to a short-response prompt, or speaking specifically about how
several academic language terms are connected to one another, students should be required to apply their terms purposefully in speaking, listening,
reading and writing.
Step 5: Determine whether or not the students applied the correct words through assessment. Teachers should always go back and assess whether or not students are able to apply the different academic language terms appropriately and/or assess
the degree to which they learned the word. The application of terms might have different purposes from exposure to its use through listening to the word in
context, to its application in analysis to a subject that encompasses lots of facets. In any case, the teacher should always assess whether or not the students
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Elementary
Crunch Time We are at the point in the year where we will start reviewing many of the skills you have already taught. A great way to do this is during
your guided reading/work station time. It is a good idea to regroup your students according to which skills they might need more
practice in. Reviewing the skills then having students practice using shorter passages and questions stems will reinforce what you teach
them. The following is a list of a few websites that have shorter passages. Just remember to use the STAAR questions stems instead of the