Our Mission: “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision: “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”
Our Mission: “Educate students for lifelong learning and responsible living.”
Our Vision: “Provide a learning environment that promotes and develops academic and
social growth.”
Attaining Learning Outcomes = Higher Achievement
Welcome back from Spring Break. I hope everyone had a restful week (or two) and came back ready to finish the school year strong. We are in our 4th nine week period - the last for the 2016-2017 school year. Spring Testing will be here before we know it.
- Monday 3/20 Fitness testing begins for 3rd - 6th grade
- Tuesday 3/21 Grades must be posted by 3:00 p.m. Mandatory 1 hour faculty meeting. We will review testing protocol.
- Wednesday 3/22
- Thursday 3/23 Smart Start in the library. Brett out - Principal's Meeting Admin Bldg
- Friday 3/24
Welcome to the 4th Quarter of the 2017- 2018. Be sure to remind students of your classroom procedures, hall wall procedure, bathroom procedures, playground procedures, lunch room procedures. Be Safe, Be Respectful, Be Responsible.
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April is Coming..... April is Coming.... That Means State Testing.....
What?! The prevailing wisdom is that standardized testing drains the life out of a classroom, saps students of interest and engagement, brings on unnecessary and at times crippling stress, and limits the view of what students are really learning in school.
Teaching to the test is a problem, for sure. But using the format of a standardized test as a teaching tool can enhance student learning—the question is how to do this in a way that captures students’ interest.
Here are a few ways to use the standardized test format to promote student engagement.
Play With Question Stems
Have students create the answer responses to a question stem, thinking carefully about “wrong” answers and finding the right language to construct the “correct” response. This is a highly analytical exercise and challenges students to really know and understand the concept being addressed in the question.
Flip the Question
Have students construct the question based on the answer responses. This forces students to identify the patterns and themes evident in the answer responses and thus arrive at the big idea in the question.
A No-Stakes Review
At the end of a class in a particular subject area, have students answer one multiple-choice, standardized-test type of question to see if they grasped an idea covered in class. This is a good way to garner immediate feedback. Time columnist Annie Murphy Paul shares the example of Columbia Middle School in St. Louis, Missouri, where teachers have students take a quick, no-stakes quiz—one that isn’t graded—at the end of each class to see what they learned.
The Quiz Show Format
Play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with multiple-choice questions. The popular ’90s TV show invited participants to answer a series of questions, sometimes enlisting the help of peers through the Call a Friend option, in which the participant could call a friendly source of information. The show also employed the 50/50 option, where two incorrect responses were eliminated from the answer list so that the participant could choose between just two options. Teachers can break the class into teams to play this game. In a more modern version, the Call a Friend option could give students one minute to Google the answer, forcing them to use intelligent search language to find the right answer. Or students could instead ask a friend for help.
Build Your Own Test
Give the class a mixed-up practice test, with the questions scrambled and in no apparent order of difficulty. Have teams of students reorder the questions, moving from easiest to hardest, being prepared to explain and defend why a certain question was easy or difficult. This also invites the students to consider the fact that on a standardized test all questions are equal, with no single question having more value than the others. Many students get hung up on hard questions and spend too much time on them instead of moving through the test to answer as many questions correctly as they possibly can.
Dispute the Question
Have students debate the merits of the wording of a particular question to find flaws, biases, or shortcomings and then rewrite the question with more careful wording.
Building experiences for students to play with a test can help to defuse anxiety, create familiarity and comfort, offer concrete strategies for success, promote collaboration and problem solving, and open up important conversations around taking standardized tests.
To Develop Every Child Into a Reader:
- Everyday a child reads something they choose to read.
- Every child reads accurately
- Every child reads something they understand.
- Every child writes something that is personal and meaningful daily.
- Every child talks with peers about reading and writing.
- Every child hears an adult reader read fluently.
- All Students WILL achieve academically.
- Reading: Increase reading proficiency by at least one grade level.
- Math: Increase math achievement by 10% with 80% mastery of math facts on grade level.
- Writing: Increase writing proficiency by 15%
- Student Attendance: Increase student attendance to 98%.
- Increase Faculty Attendance to 98%
OKCPS Literacy Standards
OKCPS Math Standards
Melissa Brett | Principal
Coolidge Elementary School | Oklahoma City Public Schools
5212 S. Villa, Oklahoma City, OK 73119
(405) 587-2800
(405) 208-1581 (cell)
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