PLC Notes
February 20, 2013
Derek, Cheryl, Harjyote
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How do we keep students motivated during
centers?
o Immediate
rewards
o Loss
of other activities until work is complete
o What
is it that is keeping them from doing any work?
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How can we change what his reactions to the
work?
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Focus on success
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Success plan
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If you do this you will see successes
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Finding his motivation
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Find what is setting them off
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Pick and choose, so that they have control over
what they are doing.
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How do we keep students accountable for centers?
o Have
very clear and concise expectations laid out for them
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How do we manage transitions to make them better
for those students who have difficulty with them?
o During
centers
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Stop and clean up center, heads down at the
desk, and then students move to new center
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Only moving the students who are off task after
20 minutes to the next center, leaving the ones that are focused to complete
their work.
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The Daily Five: read to self, read to others,
Listen to others, word work, and work on writing. Also incorporate work on math.
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Pick and choose for center work, instead.
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Timing the transitions, to occur during natural
breaks.
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