Interested in student-driven classrooms? Join Dr. Nancy Sulla @nsulla (author of Students Taking Charge, Its Not What You Teach But How, Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement, and more) and educators from all over in #LATICchat on Thursday nights at 8pm ET. We hope to bring together a community of educators to share insights, stories, examples, pictures from their classrooms, and more. We welcome all educators to join; no need to be running a #LATIC classroom.
Elizabeth, 5th grade ELA/Social Studies, Florida. Departmentalized- 1st block most Ss have experienced LATIC; 2nd block made up mostly ESE Ss and only 2 in LATI. #LATICchat
A1) I can’t speak for the entire school, but I know in 5th it’s more inclusion. This year, I’m SUPER LUCKY to have an ESE co-teacher during my whole ESE block. #LATICchat
A2) No benchmarks during that time (unless they're related to the pull-out subject) ... Ss in pull-out Ss' groups must be mindful of how they schedule time. #LATICchat
A2) I would need to know their pull-out schedule and make sure that important benchmark activities did not coincide with their pull-outs, if at all possible.
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A3) Just let the Ss schedule their own time around their own pullout schedule -- shouldn't affect anyone else? It's when Ts try to run the whole class around the pullout schedule that they disempower students. #LATICchat
A4) The LATIC is really ideal for maximizing the effectiveness of the adults in the classroom because the structures that support SCL free the adults up to provide more frequent and in-depth facilitation of learning!
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A4) Four ways to engage as a co-teaching pair where both teachers are valuable contributors to the learning environment . . .
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A4) My co-T holds a SGML while I facilitate and then vice-versa. They get choice in instruction delivery and double the attention and the added bonus of differentiation that works for each of them. #LATICchat
A4) I LOVE dual-focus facilitation in the #LATIC for co-teachers or inclusion classrooms. Both teachers have a specific goal as they question and work with students, then share. #LATICchat
A5) I don't think there's one answer to this question, but I like having a shared fac grid spreadsheet open on a computer or tablet that the adults can both access and update with notes about who they facilitated with. #LATICchat
Monaliza Matelski 5th grade sorry I’m late. ELA/Social Studies, Florida. Departmentalized- 1st block most have experienced LATIC; 2nd block made up mostly of ESE and no one has done LATI. #LATICchat
A5) A team of MS teachers I worked with took the approach of having one teacher focus on content facilitation and the other focus on students' executive function and metacognition through facilitation. #LATICchat
A5) Since my co-teacher is not #LATIC trained, I update my grid based on our conversations and observations and share the data with her or plan SGMLs from it. #LATICchat
A5) Gather data and share results often; use a real-time grid on tablets; use two different grids with different foci (like academic content and exec func skills). #LATICchat
A3) the good news is that the ese teacher is my coteacher when I have the ese kids. They do not get pulled out. I have her work in smgrp with them so she can focus on their needs better while the students still do their work. #LATICchat
It's great to leverage the expertise of an ESE teacher as a co-teacher in the classroom for designing learning activities that benefit all students, too. #LATICchat
A6) have multiple places in the classroom where teaching can occur; allow them space at OUR desk, plan together and facilitate simultaneously #LATICchat
A6) Offering different types of seating in the classroom and teaching students how to leverage those based upon what they need to learn or do matters even more in a collaborative classroom! #LATICchat
A4) I love have a co-teacher in the room. It helps with having an extra hand in smgrp instruction as well as being able to facilitate. I can’t teach small group while she walks around to help students and then we switch. #LATICchat
A6) we each have equal space/say in the room. We share the only teacher desk in the room, we share time at the kidney table, we share the over all instruction in the classroom. Our pm group sees us both as their teachers #LATICchat
A7) developing differentiated activities for the next activity list and planning SGMLs based on need; keeping data on EF progress for IEP meetings #LATICchat
The "group and guide" approach to #LATIC co-teaching also works beautifully with both teachers using content facilitation grids; the questioning occurs in different settings and students have different opportunities to engage with the teachers about content. #LATICchat
A7) Reformatting the rubric to make it easier to read, perhaps even a row at a time; identifying/designing learning activities to address S needs #LATICchat
A8) Consider co-planning time as sacred time...find ways to communicate asynchronously, such as email, instant messaging, Voxer, sticky notes. Creating an agreement at the beginning of the year. https://t.co/IiSE0sL22W#LATICchat
A8) shared planning time, including them in grade-level emails/meetings, and inviting them to access and contribute to lesson plans and ALUs #LATICchat
CQ) maintain high expectations and celebrate successes is high on the list...after that, openness to adapt as we go and adding choices for learning #LATICchat
Students want to meet and exceed expectations. Set the bar high and scaffold the learning so they can reach it... and yes, celebrate along the way! #LATICchat
Thanks for joining! Next week: the last summer #LATICchat ... then it's September! We'll talk about Reshaping #StudentBehavior. Have an awesome week - see you there!
