Wayside Middle School

Professional Learning Communities

Our Response to Student Learning

1.What do we expect our students to learn? (Goals/Expectations)

  • Building and Class Expectations
  • Teach learning expectations
  • Meet or exceed in all curricular areas required by the state such as, TEKS, benchmarks, and readiness and supporting standards at grade level or above grade level.
  • Cross curricular vocabulary building
  • Marzano vocabulary strategies
  • Project/Writing Rubrics
  • Predicting, Imaging, Inferring, Questioning, Summarizing, Connecting
  • Teacher unit and yearly academic and professional goals
  • Increased vocabulary in all academic/elective areas
  • Writing in all academic areas
  • Socialization Skills
  • Communication skills – Verbal/Written
  • Application, Analysis, and Synthesis of learning
  • Technology: Office Tools, Presentation Software, internet safety and appropriate use, Think Through math, IStation

2.How will we know they are learning? (Assessment)

  • Grades – No zeros allowed
  • Teacher’s Observations
  • Formative/Summative/Common Assessments
  • Student Reflections/Journals
  • District Assessments
  • Out the Door assessments
  • Semester Exams/Report Cards
  • Unit/Weekly Test/Quizzes
  • Pre/Post Test
  • Rubric/Checklist
  • Universal Screeners
  • Item Analysis
  • Fluency Checks
  • Studentwork/evaluations
  • Student’s Personal Data Collecting
  • Class participation
  • Progress Monitoring

3.How will we respond when they don’t learn? (Intervention)

  • Differentiated Instruction
  • Target Specific Skills
  • Data Item Analysis
  • Small Group Instruction
  • Current Blooms Taxonomy
  • Graphic Organizers/Thinking Maps
  • Hands- On Learning
  • Parent Input
  • Morning Tutorials
  • Lunch Tutoring
  • Flexible Grouping
  • Teacher Shared Strategies
  • Co-teaching
  • Additional Time
  • Think Through Math
  • RTI Specialist
  • IStation
  • CAT Time Tutoring
  • Grade Recovery/Redo assignment opportunities
  • Continual parent contact with partnership input
  • Written response/verbal discussion

Response to Intervention (RtI)

a.Small Group Instruction

b.Tiered Group Instruction (Tier II, Tier III)

c.1 -1

dRe-teach with different methods

e.Modify – backtrack, build back ground knowledge

f.Tutoring: before school or lunch tutor with teacher

g.Think Through Math/IsStation

h.Referral to CARE team (student – teacher; peer –peer)

4.How will we respond if they already know it? (Gifted and Talented)

  • Extension Assignments
  • Choice Assignments
  • Technology Research
  • Cluster Partners
  • Free reading
  • United Streaming
  • Games
  • Group leaders
  • Peer Tutoring
  • Independent Projects

5.Frequent Celebrations

  • Wayside Met Standard on 2012-2013 Texas School Accountability System
  • Wayside is closing the gaps on student learning
  • Every teacher at WMS has committed to reaching every student and their individual needs of learning
  • Wayside staff is committed to analyzing data on a daily basis to determine the best interventions for students to assist them in succeeding.