I have finished setting up my classroom. I have printed the ISN "how to set it up" pages for students and now I am excited for my students to arrive.
Monday all teachers return to campus and we start collaborating for the 1st day on Monday August 26th. I am going to be using many different new strategies to continue to improve student retention. I plan to make some POGIL like junior high lessons, continue working with the Marzano vocabulary cards, keep up th writing in science, and begin a metric moment (where the students will be asked a related metric measurement as a warm-up), and my favorite...the verbiage of science exit ticket.
The verbiage of science exit ticket, requires students to write down the scientific words they used during group discussion on a post it note throughout the class period. At the end of class they post their note (with name on the back) on the scientific language meter on the board. The minimum requirement is 5 words a day during the 1st six weeks of school. I have a word wall, and each table has pre and suffixes to look at if they need help with a word or are ESL or SPED students - who may need additional support.
Tomorrow I will post pictures of my completed classroom. Happy Friday evening!
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