1.Set a reasonable time to leave school each day & stick to it! 2.Get serious about germ prevention! 3.On Sunday, plan all of your after-school activities for the week & write them into your plan book/calendar. 4.Stock an emergency drawer in your desk: deodorant, dental floss, hair spray, comb, flip flops, thank you notes, gum, snacks and a sweater/jacket. 5.Prep an emergency sub plan now so you are ready for the unexpected illness…it will happen. 6.Don’t compare your ‘beginning’ to someone else’s ‘middle’. 7.Do at least one thing with your class each week that reminds you of why you became a teacher in the first place!

Connect Best Practices to BISD’s Learning Platform Identify and analyze some of Marzano’s 9 best-practice strategies

STUDENT- CENTERED INTERACTIVE COGNITIVE Standards

Robert Marzano and John Hattie have both done extensive work in determining what effect certain teaching strategies and structures have on learning.

Average Percentile Point Gains on Student Achievement Tests

Research: Organizing students into cooperative groups yields a positive effect on overall learning if approach is systematic and consistent.

Ways to Group: Let’s use one: Heterogeneous Homogeneous Mixed ability

Research: The ability to break a concept into its similar and dissimilar characteristics allows students to understand and solve complex problems by analyzing them in a more simple way.

-Comparing similarities and differences -Classifying grouping things that are alike -Metaphors comparing two unlike things -Analogies identifying relationships between pairs of

Research: Engaging students in the creation of nonlinguistic representations actually stimulates and increases activity in the brain

Recommendations: Generating mental images Drawing pictures or pictographs Constructing graphic organizers Acting out content Making physical models Making revisions to physical models, mental images, pictures, graphic organizers

Let’s Do It: This Needs a Caption Great opportunity to see if students are applying what they know to the pictures they are given. A caption is – a title or brief explanation to an illustration, cartoon, or poster.

Without this important caption, the reader can’t tell what business services, health care, hotel/leisure, natural resources, and retail have in common.

Topic: Traits of a Successful Teacher 1.Discuss and list the top 8 things you need to know for the first day of school 2.Now list your group member names across the top 3.Now code your list using the following: + = I’m very confident - = I have no clue ? = I think I know, but need to ask Need to Know Name

1.Choose a big idea or important theme that you strongly associate with teaching. 2.Choose a color that you think best represents the essence of that idea. 3.Create a symbol that you think best represents the essence of that idea. 4.Sketch an image that you think best captures the essence of that idea.

Average Percentile Point Gains on Student Achievement Tests