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//**Opportunities and Reminders: **//

After-school Schedule for the Week
Monday: Until 4:15 Tuesday: Until 4:15 Wednesday: Until last student leaves Thursday: Until 4:15 Friday: Please make an appointment if you plan to stay

Notes and Reminders:

 * CTE Recruiting Fairs will take place according to the following schedule. Please help if you are asked.
 * Tuesday, January 6 - Haltom High School
 * Wednesday, January 7 - Richland High School
 * Thursday, January 8 - Birdville High School
 * TAFE State Competitors: Information about the Teach Tomorrow Summit in Lubbock will be available this week. You must return permission forms by the end of this semester (January 17) so your room assignments and transportation can be finalized.
 * TAFE State Competitors: Plan your work/practice time and sign up on the calendar. Your goal: One solid work day or practice each week until STATE!

=//** Monday **//=
 * Happy New Year! It's 2015![[image:2015.jpg align="right"]] **

Although there are still two weeks left in this semester, it's the beginning of a new year. Start to reflect on three New Year's Resolutions that will help you achieve important goals before or by the end of the school year. Focus your goals on the following areas:


 * College planning - applications, visits, testing, scholarships
 * Attendance
 * Grades

Each resolution should be written in the form of a goal. That means each resolution will include the following: The outcome, the timeframe, and the methodology.


 * Poor example: I will have better attendance.
 * Good example: I will improve my attendance this semester by getting up 10 minutes earlier to avoid tardies.
 * Another example: I will improve my EAT internship grade by completing all blogs by the deadline to avoid zeros.
 * Another example: I will try to secure $1000 of scholarships by applying for a minimum of 5 scholarships by April 1.

Record these resolutions on your blog. We will be revisiting these periodically to look at progress.

= Tub a Dub Dub! = Organize the information you have collected throughout the first semester in your tub. Follow the guide below. Highlight the items you have. Tape this guide (and the one from the first check) on the end of your tub so it is visible.

TEKS Covered: (11) The student documents technical knowledge and skills. The student is expected to:

(A) update a professional portfolio

// Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday // TEKS 10A The student participates in field based experiences and applies instructional strategies and concepts within a local educational and training facility.

** All interns attend site schools on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday **

 * [[image:sstevensbctal/school-bus.gif align="right"]] ||
 * Remember your folder, assignments and your attendance log!
 * Be sure to get your mentor's signature on your attendance log.
 * Continue working on your mini lessons or lesson plans.
 * Be respectful of each other - get to the bus on time, don't make everyone wait on you!
 * Communicate with me and your mentor teacher!

Due on or before January 16: Year I Interns: Two mini-lessons and word-processed forms. Be sure to have your mentor teacher sign or they do not count.



Year II Interns: Lesson (Word-processed lesson plan, lesson evaluation from Kallas and mentor, and self-evaluation of lesson form completed.)





TEKS Covered: (4) The student plans and develops effective instruction. The student is expected to: (A) explain the role of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in planning and evaluating instruction; (C) explain the rationale and process of instructional planning; (E) create clear short- and long-term learning objectives that are developmentally appropriate for students; and (F) demonstrate teacher planning to meet instructional goals. =//** Friday **//=

How can you reach students who have been labeled "unteachable?" How can you use diversity to bring students together who may be toughened by circumstances outside of the classroom. Learn how new teacher Erin Gruwell challenged her students to rethink their rigid beliefs, reconsider their daily decisions and take charge of their futures. Did I mention you get to learn all of this by watching the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank? = =

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= = =//** Monday **//=
 * [[image:Toast for Change.jpg align="right"]]Watch the conclusion of Freedom Writers as Erin Gruwell takes students who had been written off by the education system on a journey that changes their lives. Discover ways you can add meaning to education for those students whose lives you will touch.
 * Complete and turn in viewer's guide by the end of the period.
 * Revisit your blog and edit before we do a class "Toast for Change."

TEKS covered:

(5) The student creates an effective learning environment. The student is expected to:

(A) describe characteristics of safe and effective learning environments;

(B) demonstrate teacher and trainer characteristics that promote an effective learning environment;

(C) identify classroom-management techniques that promote an effective learning environment; and

(D) describe conflict-management and mediation techniques supportive of an effective learning environment.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">(7) The student understands the relationship between school and society. The student is expected to:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">(A) explain the relationship between school and society;

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">(B) use school and community resources for professional growth; and

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">(C) use the support of family members, community members, and business and industry to promote learning.