One approach we use is to start the second semester with resolutions involves goals that force us to hone on and review procedures with focused specifics regarding what students need to do each day... getting to class with materials, what to do in each classroom once it is entered, what to do after class and at home. We do have the kids flip the hand out over and review the procedures for success in their own words. So many kids do not know how to study and the families are asking the teachers for tutoring.. and tutoring can not solve the problem which is a lack of study skills and lack of daily review where it is needed. I am putting this on line ( www.bovarules.typepad.com ) this evening, so if you wish to see these handouts, check there in a couple of hours. If any one else has something like this, could you post it or direct me to it. Thanks. I am also going to include the study table sheet on the web site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ivey" <[email protected]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:21:10 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia Subject: [LIT] New Year's Goals or Resolutions?
Hi! As we approach the New Year, I am proposing we take a moment to share our goals and/or resolutions for 2010. My own are: 1. Keep working on that ever-elusive balance between family, teaching, exercise, and sleep. 2. Interact more frequently and more helpfully with my students on a one-to-one basis, especially with their writing. 3. Rethink from the ground up how best to promote love of reading among my students with whatever sort of assessment makes sense. 4. Try to keep up with cutting edge thinking and figure out what can/should be applied right away to my teaching and what has to be stowed away for use "later." 5. Try to be brutally honest with myself about what is working and what needs fixing up, including other people's voices in the process. 6. Assume good intentions. 7. Work for social justice in a way that respects a diversity of beliefs. 8. Work for a very successful 2010 Online Poetry Slam! 9. Try to be true to myself. Take care, Bill Ivey Stoneleigh-Burnham School _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
