Teachers Teaching Teachers

We had a productive curriculum day yesterday:

• Ms. Marcela Doylet ran two workshops about how to best use the results from the MAP testing. They were informative and will help us better educate your child.
• Ms. Jody Zambrano ran a wonderful workshop about how to build background knowledge for our students which was helpful for all of our students, not just the ELL students. (Background knowledge is those things a student needs to know before they can complete the task at hand.)
• Dr. O'Hara and Mr. Nonnenkamp explained the procedure for working on the SACs accreditation visit this year and we began working in our groups.
• Ms. Daniela Silva taught a technology workshop about working with the Grade Quick program.
• I taught about using reading workshop to differentiate your teaching.
• (There was much more going on yesterday, but those are the workshops that I was involved in.)