Teaching Learning
Community
“No White Flag”
Teaching Learning Community,
Brenda Almonte
• Ninth Grade Statistics
• One of the Interventions
• Compassionate, Innovative Team
• Modules
Emotional IntelligenceChrystal. Galek and Andrew
Kirkpatrick
• Identifying, understanding, and
managing our feelings and using
these skills in relating to others.
• Critical to success in:
– School
– Workplace
– Life!
Emotional Intelligence
• Showing empathy, recognizing someone
else’s feelings, and managing emotions!
• When do people not
use E.I.?
• Handout 1.1.3—
Lack of EQ
Nonverbal
Communication
• Birthday Exercise
• **Psychologists say that 65-90% of
communication is NON-verbal
• “Actions speak louder than words”
• Follow up: Essay on
Emotional Intelligence
Community—
Darlene Baker & Nicolette Czajak
• Community in the classroom
• Seating
– Every 3 weeks
– Students ask,
“When do we get “New Neighbors”?
Student Interviews
Handout 1.2.1
Get Involved!!
• Use of agenda
• Description of extracurricular
activities
–Clubs
–Sports
Sense of Community
• Handout 1.2.2
• Open Discussions
–Everyone is encouraged to talk
–Koosh ball
• Heritage
–Collage
–Presented to class
Nikki Czajak
Preparing for Tests
Doug Tomandl
• Handouts 3.10.1 and 3.10.2
• How can we better prepare for tests
and reduce anxiety?
-Use different types of reviews
-Select study strategies that fit different
learning tasks.
-Use helpful test taking tips.
The Three Reviews
• Weekly review
-notes, reading
• A systematic pre-test review
-main ideas, concepts, terms
• A post-test review
-did it work?
Teacher Interviews, Building
Rapport—
Mary Beth Spicer and Pantelis
Antoniou
• Handout 1.10.1
• The Power of Building Rapport
• Teachers and Students Needs
• Real Scenario with
Pantelis
Quotes from Interviews
• “ The interviews allowed me to talk to teachers
about various topics that affect our studentteacher relationship. It allowed me to
understand my teachers and hopefully allowed
them to understand me better.”
• “ I understand how busy my teacher is all the
time and that it’s hard for him to deal with
everyone but he still manages to.”
Bullying
Essential Questions
Handouts 1.9.2, 1.9.1, 1.7.2, 1.9.3
What is bullying?`
What contributes to bullying?
What are the effects of bullying?
How can we respond to and prevent
bullying at school?
Connecting. . .
Continue to create an awareness of TLC
Provide opportunities for staff members to
participate in the program, I.e. Email staff about
topics being covered in class.
Have staff contact us, as mentors, with common
students.
• Classroom Issues—positive or negative
• Referrals
• Chronic tardiness/
absences
Assist with needs from other areas…
• Formatting research papers
• Formatting labs
A Systemic Intervention
The Big Picture
• Intervention--component of the SIT plan
– Which relates to the high school objective
– Which relates to the district goal
• TLC student representatives attended Chemical
Day with Bill McEachron
• Feedback form
• Regents Week Workshop
The Pivotal Year, Black, Susan,
American School Board Journal,
February 2004: Vol. 191, No. 02
• The transition year is difficult for many
students, however, if there are key
teachers, counselors, and staff in place to
help these students, the rates of truancy,
absenteeism, and drop out rate would
decrease and academic achievement
increase.
School Administrator, March,
2002 by Jennifer Newton Reents
• Entering ninth grade can be one of the most
emotionally difficult, most academically
challenging times in children's lives.
• Research indicates that more students fail
ninth grade than any other grade.
• . . . school districts risk watching their 9th
graders fall through the cracks without proper
transitional programs in place.