1. AUGUST 14, 2017

2. Ticket In: How Can You Relate?

3. Learning Objective:
By the end of today’s cluster meeting, teachers will identify essential standards for each grade level
TAP Rubric Connection: Instruction: Standards and Objectives
Descriptor: Expectations for student performance are clear, demanding, and high.

4. Review: Criteria for Essential Standards
Endurance – skill that lasts over time
Readiness – used for next level of learning
Leverage – cross over application for other areas

5. WHY? PRIORITIZING & IDENTIFYING ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
What are the common essential standards identified across each grade level?
Teacher makes a statement
Students whom the statement applies stand up (Take Off)
Those to whom it does not apply remain seated
All students esit down
Steps are repated for the next question

6. Common Essential Standard
Fluency was identified across all grade levels
Reminders:
The goal of this process is to determine what students must know, not what we prefer to teach.
These are promise standards ~ this is a fluid process

7. Article
A Practical Guide to Selecting “Just Right” Books for Independent Reading and Teaching Mastery of Multiplication (4th/5th Teacher)
Focus Questions:
-Why is fluency important?
-How can you help students build fluency?

8. Ticket Out the Door
If fluency is an essential standard, how will you teach it throughout the day?