On Thursday of this past week, I attended a grade level meeting of second grade teachers. The participants included four second grade teachers, the principal, the school counselor, the sp. ed. inclusion teacher, and me. The counselor began the meeting by discussing the results of the fall benchmark testing. The teachers were asked to look at their students' performance and decide if any students should be placed in the tiers of intervention for support. Some students were recommended for the tiers to receive gifted support, and some were recommended for the tiers due to very poor academic performance. The counselor showed us how to access the RTI (response-to-intervention) checklist and forms on the school web site. The lead teacher for second grade shared information from the recent leadership meeting, and then another teacher demonstrated a web site (http://www.tumblebooks.com/) that shows books and reads them aloud to students. I was able to share some information about our Accelerated Reader program during this part of the meeting. I also learned from the principal that we will probably get an upgrade to AR that will allow access to all of the quizzes instead of us having to purchase quizzes. That was good news!
This week I was able to complete the draft of my grant application form. The hardest part of the application seemed to be answering the questions adequately while staying within the number of words allowed for each question. Some questions had a limit of 50 words while others had a limit of 100 words. I also spent more time planning with the teacher for my information literacy unit. We discussed the essential questions and GPS standards for the unit. Next week I am to meet with her again for more planning. It is hard to find time to meet face-to-face with so many meetings after school and meetings during teachers' planning periods. We've done some planning by email, and that has helped.
Hours in the media center: 40
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