Transcript Welcome Back! - Kentucky Department of Education

Welcome Back!
This is a slideshow about how
we are going to excel
together in class this year.
What’s Inside
• Learning Target:
– I can paraphrase each classroom procedure when
called upon.
• Agenda:
– Learn the classroom procedures and guidelines
– Activity: Get to know each other
– A friendly quiz
About Me
• I enjoy reading, writing, hiking, photography,
gardening, drawing, playing music,
• I am a Christian who views teaching as a
calling.
• I scooped stalls and put up hay as a kid and
paid my bills through college by landscaping
About Me
• I have had poems published and hope to
publish a story or two before it’s all over 
• I went to school in one county and lived in
another
What about you?
1) Something I’m good at is…
2) I wish I could learn about _________ in
school.
About Me
• I enjoy challenges! I’m competitive and
creative and love to learn new stuff.
• My anger cues: red face, stiff shoulders or
back, flared nostrils, set jaw, blow out breath,
raised eyebrows, “you know what?”
• My anger triggers: taking a joke too far, verbal
attacks, sarcasm, bullying.
About Me
Are these anger triggers fair to others?
Some of them, no….
But that’s true of anyone’s triggers!
3) What are your anger cues?
4) What are your anger triggers?
Every Day
On the board you will find:
–learning target
–agenda
–bell work
Your job is to get settled and begin your bell
work when class starts. Lunch time is the time
for catching up with your friends 
Supplies
Pencils are in the cup at the front of the room. I
will try to keep them sharpened ahead of time.
Help yourself when I am not giving instruction.
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What’ve You Got In Here, Mr. I-B?
• I’m glad you asked!
• I spy…..
– Dictionaries & Thesauri
– Textbooks and Supplement
– A sink
– Student computer
– TV and movie player
5) Something I need to get better at in
school/English is …..
6) By the time I graduate, I want to be able to…
• I spy…
– Potted plant
– Word wall
– Venn diagram wall thingy
– Art supplies
– Student interest library
– Pencil Sharpener!
• I spy…
– Celebration and student work boards
– Motivational posters
– Newspaper and magazine crate
– Posterboard
– Turn in trays
Your Stuff
Don’t block the aisles
Binders/folders on blue
shelf
Moving About
Do not wander around during direct instruction.
I will try to provide short stretch breaks so you
won’t rot away or freak out.
If we’re going to the media center or something,
wait for my dismissal, and stick to the right hand
wall in the hallways. We travel as one. You must
be within 15 feet of me always.
7) I want to ________ for a living.
8) Life after high school seems ______
because ______
At the End of Class
1) put your materials away and return borrowed
pencils
2) trash in the trash can
3) Bring your point sheet to my desk to be signed
4) Wait quietly away from the door. No mobs.
• The teacher dismisses class, not the bell.
• You are not dismissed until I sign your process
points and say you may go.
• I will not sign your points later in the day
unless it was my mistake.
Turning In Work
At the back of the room, there are three metal
trays.
You are responsible for getting your work into
the correct tray on time.
Do not hand me your work. I may lose it.
Catching Up
• If you come in late, refer to the red pouch by
the door.
– It has today’s work in it so that you can pick up
with the class.
Catching Up
• If you are absent, refer to your own hanging
file folder in the class file box.
• Check the long pouch by the door, too.
• Also ASK ME what you missed in case there
are verbal things you need to know
Catching Up
You are responsible for
collecting your work and
asking questions about it.
Catching Up
“The number of days allowed to complete
make-up work will be equal to the number of
school days the student was absent plus one
additional day.” (Code of Conduct, pg. 9)
Do not let a partial credit opportunity become a
“0”
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Catching Up
As per the student handbook, “Notes must be
turned in within 5 days of absence in order to
be counted.” (pg. 5)
If you miss class, excused or unexcused,
you will fall behind. I know. I’ve done it.
Try not to do it.
Aunt Bert says: “Even if you’re tired, come to
school, and your life will be easier in the long
run.”
9) What is your favorite memory with a parent
or loved one?
10) My favorite thing to read about is
(technology, animals, etc.)
11) My favorite genre is (fiction, newspaper,
etc.)
Advocating
• Discovery teaches us to advocate for
ourselves. Please do this in adult mode and at
the appropriate time.
• Just raise your hand for help or to ask a
question.
Advocating
There are lots of different kinds of learners in
this room, but none are “smarter” than others.
Force yourself to ask questions!!!!
This has nothing to do with personality or
intelligence; it is a strategy that anyone can use
and improve
Advocating
In high school and college, I made myself ask
questions when I was stuck or unsure.
It felt silly at the time, but I often noticed that
people were writing down the teacher’s
answer….
What do you think that means?
My Desk
• The room ambassador or other assigned
person may answer the phone if I’m not
behind my desk, but you should never be
behind my desk. The Sarlacc lives there.
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12) Did anyone read to you as a child? If so,
who?
Learning Climate
• As per the student handbook, “Passing
Discovery is not the end of using it; we
expect all staff and students to continue
“living Discovery” at all times.” (pg. 9)
Learning Climate
I never remember the lessons I taught.
I remember what students said and did!
Without your participation, this is just an empty
shell.
If you sit like a bump on a log, classes will
probably not be interesting, and you won’t be
able to pass the class.
If you say to yourself, “how can I strive to learn
something today and help others do the same?”
then we’ll have a great time.
Ice Breaker Time!
Pair up with your shoulder partner and learn 3
cool facts about him/her, then introduce to the
class. (60 seconds apiece, then 30 seconds per
introduction)
If time: 4 truths and a lie
Review
• Who can tell me….
Before You Leave…
• Stand at your seat with the surrounding area
cleaned.
• Get your process points signed.
• Take home the Parent Letter, and bring it back
to me tomorrow with your parents’
signatures!
Equipment and Tools
• You need to be trained on using equipment
before using it.
• Tools are not toys; use them well and you will
enjoy the privilege.
• There are right and wrong ways to use them.
The wrong ways are wrong because they are
unsafe for us and for the tools.
• The tools will be stored in the shed, with the
exception of a few pots, seeds, and grow lights
and heat mats.
• Proper use of tools is about being employable,
and is about dignity and respect.
• Our goal is to be the finest gardening and
landscaping workforce in the area; we must
learn to act like it.
• Your use of tools will be reflected in your daily
process points as well as performance based
scoring rubrics in the gradebook. I will
provide these rubrics to you.