M-Powerment Strategy of the Month: M-3 Standards- Aligned Lessons
- Use the NC standards and unpacking documents when designing lessons
- Use the District pacing guide and instructional support materials when planning
- Collaboratively discuss curriculum in PLCs to ensure Horizontal/Vertical alignment
- Post “I Can” statements on assignments and board
- Design technology lessons aligned with SAMR / ISTE Standards
- Align curriculum materials from outside sources (Teachers Pay Teachers, Pinterest, etc.) to local standards
- Design remediation based on standards that need additional work, based on individual students
Discussion Stems
If you're struggling to get your students to have worthwhile discussions without it sounding like either absolute chaos or crickets chirping, try some of these academic conversation sentence starters. Have students work in pairs first to practice with the stems, then in a small group before extending it to whole class discussion. As students use the sentence starters, their conversations will become richer and more focused.