Today we have a wonderful opportunity to focus on our students and their learning environment next school year. We will be looking at the initial class lists created by the current classroom teachers and discussing some of the learners and their preferences and needs.
Please, keep in mind the following:
- New students may have an impact on the class lists. (If available, Heikki will bring already confirmed new student information to the meeting)
- Your suggestions and input are vital so that Heikki can make informed final decisions about the class lists and the teacher assignment to each class
- Before the lists are confirmed in August, Heikki will go through the lists with the counselor, Learning Support Teachers, and the EAL coordinator to make sure that our support services can be organized effectively.
What makes this process perhaps different this year is that there are many teachers currently in the receiving grade levels who are not going to be teaching those children next year. However, the expertise and recent experiences are very important as those currently teaching in the grade levels will have a good sense of the ideal combination of learners in the class.
Specialist teachers: Please join the meetings as you see important to provide input for creating an effective learning environment for the students in your particular subject.
EAL and Learning Support teachers: Please join the meetings from the point of view of who you have been supporting this school year so that we can continue to support the children effectively given our preferred model of co-teaching.
Heikki will be joining some of the meetings to learn more about the students and class list creation process.
Schedule for today's meetings:
Time: 14:40 - 15:20
Who is sharing With Where
PreKA teachers KB Jenny's classroom
Grade 1 teachers Grade 2 Lynette's classroom
Grade 3 teachers Grade 4 Karen's classroom (please consider the two scenarios: 2 or 3 classes)
Time 15:20 - 16:00
Who is sharing With Where
KB teachers Grade 1 Joy's classroom
Grade 2 teachers Grade 3 Saiko's classroom
Grade 4 teachers Grade 5 Jay's classroom
Criteria for creating a balanced class list in the order of priority
1. Learning Support needs (with an IEP or Action Plan)
2. EAL needs
3. Social and emotional needs
4. Linguistic balance
5. Gender balance
Discussion points:
1. Looking at the initial class lists for 16-17 and asking the question: How do we know that these initial class lists are balanced?
2. Discussing some specifically chosen students and their learning, social and emotional needs (not all students)
3. Discussing and making a suggestion of the teacher for each class.
Classroom teachers in 16-17
PreK/KA Kaoru White and Page Born
KB Jennifer Cardon and Ellen Lowery
Grade 1 Joy Thomas and Angela Ngan
Grade 2 Jerome Fugami and Lynette Yodgee
Grade 3 Karen Terry and Suki Mito
Grade 4 Jay Sprague and Karen Shih (and ?)
Grade 5 Jeff Booth and Steve Rampling
