September Newslettermrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Class

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September Newslettermrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classes

Thank You just doesn’t seem enough to say! This has been such a wonderful year and I have been truly blessed to work with your children. You can’t see this amazing picture collage very clearly but thanks to Mrs. Tohme and Mrs. Dacey, each child in the third grade sent me a suggestion for retirement! I will treasure this forever! Some of the suggestions that I remember:

Lines reflect mean effort scores at Time 1 (sixth grade) and Time 2 (eighth grade), with 'greater than' groups representing friendships where scores for one individual fell in the upper third of.
E-Learning Day 4 (4/6/2020) Novel Critique Day-In class discussion of class novel Holes E-Learning Day 5 -8 (4/7/20) Step 3: Read “The Wounded Wolf” a. Listen to the audio while reading. Please complete the Read and Stop. Practice 'The Wounded Wolf' Vocabulary E-Learning Day 4/14/20-4/20/20 The All-American Slurp a.
Mukilteo School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, disability, or the use of trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

September Newslettermrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classroom

Move to the retirement home near my house (The Meadows)
Sky dive
Be a lumberjack
Make soup
Watch Sponge Bob
Get a Make Over (my daughter laughed at this one)
Learn Something new
Hawaii
Go to Disney World
Spend Time with your family and new dog

All good advice. I may not sky dive or be a lumberjack (although I have a lot of sticks in my yard I need to pick up today) LOL…

Teaching isn’t for everyone but it has been my life for nearly 4 decades and I so appreciate all of you and your children. It has been an amazing last year! I’m on FB if anyone wants to Friend me so I can keep up with your kids!

Thank You!

Mrs. Parker

September Newslettermrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Class Submarine

Assessments

Formative Assessment and Data Driven Decision with Plickers

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The results of the quiz were pretty concrete. I tested my students on various concepts that have been taught throughout their education, simply to test their knowledge of previous concepts. Every student in my class got every question right that I tested them on.
The results of the quiz were obviously very good, as everyone scored an 100%. Although everyone did score so well, I knew that this would happen since it was a review quiz, and the students should have known all of the content that they were tested on. Despite the fact that it was review, I could still test students on questions that were a bit harder. I could even incorporate new content into the quiz that we have only briefly touched base on, and integrate it with questions from the other material to make the quiz a bit harder, but still manageable. Because of the success on this quiz, I may make the next quiz a bit harder, but still a reasonable caliber for a review quiz. I don't think that I need to review the content of this quiz, not any part of it, in fact, because each of the students did so well. The results of the review quiz prove that my students are ready for the next topic, and I will be able to move on to new material in future classes. Despite the fact that everyone scored so well, I don't think that I am teaching something that is too easy. This was a review, and my students are already high ability students who are capable of more than what is normal of their grade level. Moving forward, I will try to test my students on new concepts just little bit in the midst of old review topics in order to really test their knowledge in whatever area we are studying.
The tool that I used to test the students is a website/software called Plickers. With this online tool, you can create different types of questions, and select which one is the correct answer. From there, you use a smartphone, tablet, or a device with a camera to broadcast your questions to your students on either the board in the front of class, or on their individual computer screens if you have the technology. After the students see the question, they answer it by holding up a piece of paper that has a number on each side of a shape, along with either an A, B, C, or D. Whichever side they hold upright, will be their answer. The teacher with the camera-enabled devoid then scans the room full of students with their papers high in the air. The camera will pick up on all of the sheets of paper with the shapes, and record each students answer based on the way the shape looks. After the answers are collected, the results can be displayed anonymously by the teacher, or on the teacher screen they can see if students answered certain questions correctly or not.
I think that this testing tool is so useful because it is so engaging and easy to use. This tool is definitely engaging for students because they get to hold up their answers and see the scanner pick up on their paper by simply looking at the board with the screen projected. Because of the uniqueness of this tool, I think students will be amused and have fun with it, because I know as a teacher, it is such a fun and interesting tool to use. I also think it is so easy to use because it makes grading and analyzing results so easy for the teacher. They are able to look at one single question and see which people got it wrong, and are able to analyze why they got it incorrect. I think that because teachers are able to do this, the education process is enhanced greatly. If you were to gather that type of data with a normal test, it would take you hours to arrange it into an easy to read format, which Plickers does for you right away. Overall, I think this tool is engaging for students, and it enhances the education process for teachers, making it a great tool to use in an everyday classroom, and I definitely plan on taking advantage of that.