Barkstall Faculty Meeting Agenda

Making the Difference

Relationships, Rigor and Relevance

Date: February, 2012

Purpose: Faculty Meeting

Desired Results: To focus on student learning

Starting Time: 3:20 p.m.

Creating a culture of literacy and learning:

Rigor & Relevance - School Improvement Plan - POAP

Student Learning - AIMSweb review:

• In what groups and curriculum areas do you find student progress at your grade level?

• In what curriculum areas do you find student progress across the school?

NEXT STEPS:

• Where in your school day is progress monitoring done with your students?

• What progress monitoring is done during ET23?

• How many students are your currently progress monitoring? List the students who fall in the tier 2 and tier 3 areas in Math and Reading. How will you monitor them for the next two quarters? (discussion for collaboration this week)

• Next steps for CBM - predictor of reading success - Steven Stahl research put into practice - Janet

• Fluency and its relationship to all components of Reading

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FLUENCY is a critical factor in displaying successful reading. With the diverse methods designed to develop fluency, this is an attainable characteristic. One method that is extremely effective in building fluency among readers is repeated reading. The term repeated reading basically means that children repeatedly read the same text until they have reached the appropriate fluency level. This method is also meant to improve a child's accurate and automatic recognition fo words in a text, which is evident by the speed at which a child read the test. Intertwined with the focus that was put on word recognition is also comprehension as a result of discussing the repeated reading. (Fluency First Chhabra & McCandle, 2004)

What is Progess Monitoring? Progress monitoring is the scientifically and/or evidenced-based practice of asseSSing students' academic and behavioral performance on a regular basis. Progress monitoring serves two purposes:

1. To determine whether students are making appropriate progress in the core instructional program.

2. To build more effective programs for the students who are not making appropriate progress.

Why is Progress Monitoring Important? Progress monitoring assures that what schools are implementing is working. Ongoing progress monitoring is extremely important. The continual collection of data and measurements provides a unique portfolio/picture outlining student needs. Progress monitoring assists school personnel in making decisions about the appropriate levels of interventions provided to students.

What Would Schools Consider? Monitoring progress assists classroom teachers in identifying student performance levels, for example, students who are struggling to make adequate progress. Through monitoring the students' progress using classroom-based measures, the teacher may adjust instructional strategies, curriculum, methods of delivery, etc. to better meet individual student needs. Many schools may use AIMSweb assessment to assess student progress in reading.

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