The SURN Science Forum blog facilitates middle school and high school teachers who attended a workshop on using high yield literacy strategies in science class to share and showcase what they are doing in their classrooms, offers a forum for questions, and lets viewers read posts of how teachers are working to effectively use literacy strategies they learned at the workshop.
Monday, November 15, 2010
First Nine Weeks
We got the results from our first nine weeks tests, and the improvements from last year were quite dramatic. Last year, our average was about 42%, this year it is about 55%. The numbers are still low, but huge improvements from last year. We used some of our lessons from last year, but the lessons in reading comprehension have to be part of the change in test scores. I hope this trend continues!
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I think the students responded best to marginalia. Golden line was helpful to introduce topics, and I used flow charts/graphic organizers to help quite a bit as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing that our averages are only 55% though. Just shows that todays youth wants something for nothing. Looking for handouts. Geshhh!!
Hey turner, who is really the "slacker" haha?
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