Nestor+agenda

 OK, this is my agenda as I submitted it on week 2 Session Purpose: Third grade classroom TAKS correlation and planning for successful 90% passing TAKS A and TAKS M || Learning Objective to Be Addressed: The teacher will learn correlation between TAKS and instruction for Third grade classroom ELAR Reading TAKS. The teacher will be able to plan successful strategies of teaching to approach reading learners in Third Grade Reading. || Approving Principal: Cecilia Gonzales cgonzal1@houstonisd.org |||||||||| Presentation Date: 10/12/2009 || Grade Level: Third || Facilitator: Néstor Londono |||||| Location: Lyons Elementary || Start Time: 8:30 am |||| End-Time: 3:00 pm ||  || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Learner-Centered Activity || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Purpose |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Description |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Steps || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Estimated Time || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Warm up activity || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Make the audience comfortable |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The audience will see a motivational video of Randy Nelson from Edutopia []<span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Play the video <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Listen to audience comments || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">5 minutes || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">TEA Learning System || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Contextualize TAKS objectives in TEA learning System |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The presenter will explain the Texas Learning System and its implication in classroom instruction. <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Then, the audience will participate in an activity walking around the room to match index cards with different components of the TEA learning system. |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The presenter will introduce the Texas Learning System and its implication in classroom instruction. <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Then, the audience will participate in an activity walking around the room to match index cards with resources, learning goals, strategies, evaluation, policies, and goals to the different components of the TEA learning system. || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">10 minutes || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">TEKS TAKS data analysis of Third grade Reading 2008-2009 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Understanding TAKS data and reflect about Lyons need for improvement in this area |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Third grade reading TAKS Project CLEAR objectives <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Horizontal Alignment <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Vertical Alignment |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The audience will match ELAR TEKS for Third Grade and its correspondent TAKS objective. <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">10 minutes || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reading Curriculum for Third grade || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The teacher will understand the reading curriculum for Third Grade and the tools available |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Correlate Third grade reading TAKS, Project CLEAR objectives, Horizontal Alignment, and Vertical Alignment with what should be taught in the classroom. |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The presenter will introduce the Reading Curriculum for Third Grade. <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The audience, divided in groups, will develop a lesson plan to address three specific objectives. Then they will present their objectives and discuss why the approach of the lesson is correct for the audience. || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">20 minutes || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Conclusions and Strategies for success || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Settle a commitment to improve ELAR TAKS results in the Third grade Classroom |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Synthesize the TAKS correlation with TEA learning system and validate curriculum for ELAR on Third Grade. |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The teacher will write the conclusions in post it notes to be placed in the wall. || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">5 || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Evaluation || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The audience will give feedback on the session. |||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The teacher will fill up an evaluation form |||||| <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fill up form || <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">5 minutes ||