[LIT] topics for this school year

[Pam]

Bill wrote:
What are topics you'd like to explore as we move through
the year? How do you see your needs evolving at different stages of the
year (for example - beginning of school, autumn settling in, 
Thanksgiving
and subsequent holidays, winter blahs, spring hope, end of school)? This
can help us set an agenda for what we'd like to accomplish during the 
year.

Pam writes:
I'd like to discuss how others flip-flop reading and writing workshop 
(or how they work both into their curriculum). I'd also like to discuss 
scaffolding instruction, esp. w/ ESL and ESE populations, specificially 
how do you begin pulling support away without causing the students to 
panic or disengage? How do others work test prep into their workshops. 
Reality dictates that my pay is about to be based on how well my 
students perform on THE state test. So...as much as I'd rather sweep 
the high-stakes testing under the rug, I can't afford to.

 :o) Pam/6th gr./FL
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how 
much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do 
know and what you don't.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)


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