1. The following classroom visuals and activities should be evident to any person that enters our classrooms. As we are mission focused to improve, our consistency in practice must be evident.
a. Towards keeping us focused on high rigor and higher order thinking, please post in your room the following Bloom's Taxonomy Chart.
b. Be sure to have current student work (within the week) posted in your classroom. Work should have comments posted by teacher.
c. Your scholastic classroom book collections should be a part of your explicit teaching station, paired reading activities and recreational reading centers. Teachers are encouraged to utilize these resources in other ways as well as you become more familiar with their content.
d. Each classroom should have daily class time focused on the (5) Big Areas as identified by our district. Mastering the lowest levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, Fractions, Comprehension, Basic Operations in Math, Reading and Writing in every subject. Be sure that your student work samples, posters, HW sheets reflect our emphasis on these skills.
Student posters should provide strategies and tips in how to remember facts, how to take notes, how to record observations etc.
e. Objective Mastery Charts and Classroom Data Walls with student data posted. For each subject there should be a running chart where the instructor checks off objectives that were taught and the instances they have been re-taught. Using the discovery education data, each teacher should have a chart for each student (do not use student names, design an anonymous system of identification) listing the required skills by subject and content cluster and the level of student performance (1,2,3 or 4) on each benchmark assessment.
