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Campus Logs (1st Semester 2009)
Week 2 (August 31 to September 4, 2009)
| August 31, 2009 (Monday) (Thomas Jefferson) I met with Mr. Conger, the principal, Ms. bernhardt, the associate principal, Ms. Maxwell, the assistant prinicipal in charge of the ELA department, Mr. Mikesell, the ELA CILT member, Mr. Summersll, the previous CILT member, Ms. Boyle, the Reading and ESL CILT member, and all the ELA and Reading teachers. I participated in the ELA PLC meeting. I discussed with Mr. Summer and Mr. Mikesell what services I can provide when I visit the campus. I shared instructional ideas with Ms. Farinas (such as following the DL model, responding to text-specific interpretive questions, character analysis, and engaging students in accountable talk), as her students read "Antigone." I met with Mr. Fernandez, the LPAC chair, Ms. Boyle, and Ms. McMahon on how we can help ELL's who are taking the TAKS test for the first time. September 1, 2009 (Tuesday) Molina High School I participated in the PLC meeting. I prepared for the Vocabulary Building training session. I facilitated a vocabulary building session with ELA teachers. I had a co-planning session with Ms. Boscomb on the Writing Workshop, mentor sentences, the writing process and traits. I had a co-planning session with Ms Tolton on the DL patterend way of reading, writing and talking. I met with the CILT member and discussed instructional needs of the department. I co-planned lessons with Mr. Lynch utilizing the DL patterened way of reading, writing and talking and discussed English 2 cpg. I also met with the ELA 2 teachers and discussed ways we can work together in using technology tools such as Wikis in their instructional delivery. September 2, 2009 (Wednesday) W. T. White I planned with Ms. Guera on writing sessions we can have with English Language Learners who will be taking the TAKS for the first time. I continued co-planning with Ms. Bradley on collaborative co-teaching sessions we will have. I also co-planned with Ms. Bates on writing workshop for ELL's. September 2, 2009 (Wednesday) Marsh Middle School I met with the Associate principal, Ms. Thomas, and we looked at school data and school, and discussed possible services I could provide to the campus. I met with the CILT member and other ELA teachers to discuss ways I can provide instructional help. September 3, 2009 (Thursday) Hilcrest High School September 21, 2009 (Monday) (T. Jefferson I had a co-planning and co-teaching session with Ms. Gregory on effective writing strategies. I met with Mr. Mikesell and discussed pre-writing strategies, mentor sentences and writer's workshop. I met with Ms. Bernard, the associate principal, and we discussed possible topics I can train the ELA teachers on next Monday, the school's Staff Development day. I prepared materials that I will need for the Writer's Workshop and mentor sentences training sessions that I will facilitate next Monday. I had a long post conference with Ms. Gregory, and we discussed possbile ways she can continue the lesson I started today, by continuing the creation of a criteria for an effective narrative essay (based on analyses of models of effective narrative essays) , providing mini-lessons based on an analysis of author's craft, asking students to engage in writelikes and revising their essays based on the mini lesson and analysis of author's craft, trying out Bernabe's colorful writing strategy, using mentor sentences during the editing process, etc. I analyzed essays written by Ms. Gregory's students. Technology Service: I assisted Dr. Dougherty and Herb with media that they will use in a training session. September 22, 2009 ( Tuesday) I started co-teaching with Ms. Boscomb on effective strategies in essay writing. I analyzed the essays written by Ms. Boscomb's students. I continued co-planning with Mr. Lynch and Ms. Tolton. I September 28, 32009 (Monday) I prepared the lessons and materials for the co-teaching session I will have with Ms,. Gregory. Technology Services: I assisted supervisors and secretary in backing up their files onto external drives. September 29, 2009 (Tuesday) I had a co-teaching session with Ms. Boscomb and we utilized Bernabe's colorful writing strategy as we analyzed traits of effective writing, and practiced stepback. I had a post conference with Ms. Boscomb and analyzed the co-teaching session we had and planned possible follow-up activities for reinforcement and also planned for the next co-teaching session we will have on mentor sentences, and teaching students to show, not tell. I had a co-teaching session with Mr. Lynch and we worked on effective writing strategies and analyzed characteristics of effective narrative essya with his students. I analyzed common assessment, TEKS objectives, and discussed how to write powerful questions with English I teachers. September 30, 2009 ( Wednesday) White I continued working with Ms. Bates' students on effective writing strategies. We worked on writing sentences that show , and not tell. We also worked on adding sensory details in their narrative essays.I analyzed the revised essay drafts of Ms. Bates' students. (September 30, 2009) Marsh I participated in the PLC meeting of the 6th Grade Reading teachers. I co-planned with Ms. Payne on the co-teaching session we will have next week on effective writing strategies and Writer's workshop. I co-planned with Ms. Allison on possible ways we can co-teach using technology tools such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and videos as students eengage in a panel discussion. I prepared for the Writer's Workshop that I am going to facilitate with the 7ht grade Writing teachers. September, 31, 2009 (Thursday) October 7, 2009 (Wedensday) White I had a co-teaching session with Ms. Bates, and we had a minilesson on how to use verbs and sentences that show to describe emotions. We also helpd conferences with students. I had a post conference with Ms. Bates and we talked about what's working and what's not and identified students who may need extra help. Marsh I continued co-planning with Ms. Payne about effective writing strategies we will implment in her classroom/ I had a deep discussion with Ms. White and Ms. Allison on effective strategies in helping students build their vocabulary and discussed ways to address words contextually via point of contact and activities/projects to engage students in discussions of high frequency and key words as concepts. October 8, 2009 (Thursday) Marsh I facilitated a training session on effective vocabulary strategies with the 8th Grade Reading teachers. I also facilitated a training session on effective development of ideas with the 7th Grade ELA teachers. Hillcrest I had a co-teaching session with Ms. Perroux and Ms. Bolton separately, and we analyzed the traits of models of effective narrative essays and created a criteria chart for an effective narrative essay. I met with the CILT member and associate prinicpal and discussed the essay writing benchmark and the guidelines and rubrics that teachers can use as they analyze and score students' narrative essays. October 16, 2009 (Monday) I had co-teaching sessions with Ms. Gregory and Ms. McMahon on effective writing strategies. I had a demo-teaching session with Ms. Boyle on effective writing strategies. The lessons involved analyzing models of effective narrative essays, implemementing Bernabe's colorful writing strategy, and creating criteria chart for effective narrative essay. October 20, 2009 (Monday and Tuesday) Molina Ms. Boscomb and I analyzed the essays written by her students. Mr. Lynch and I co-planned the lessons that we will co-teach. I met with the CILT member and talked about the essay benchmark. I met with the ELA department to talk about the essay benchmark. I had co-teaching sessions with Ms. Boscomb and Mr. Lynch separately and we taught pre-writing strategies, writing sentences that show, not tell and organization.
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