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On a regular basis and at
monthly LMC planning meetings, ask teachers for their observations regarding
the results of center activities available in the LMC. Remember they see the
results from a third party perspective. Take their input seriously. Improve
centers they feel that are weak and add centers that springboard from your
planning conversations. |
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Ask teachers to evaluate how you have
helped them and then look at how you can help them in other ways in the
future to support reading through balanced literacy. |
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Review the purpose for the centers that you
have established in the LMC, to support Balanced Literacy and the Guided
Reading approach in the classroom. Ask yourself, "Has that focus been
maintained, compromised, or neglected?" |
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Refer regularly to your state learning
standards. Have you maintained a correlation between the center activity and the
standard it reinforces. |
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On a regular basis, survey the opinions of your students,
either informal or formal. Ask them what they learned, liked, disliked, want to
learn from a center in the future, etc. |
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Keep a record of all of the literacy centers you develop and
present. Add anecdotal notes as you observe student use. Refer to these notes
as a means of assessment of the center's effectiveness in addressing the
learning standards they were based on.
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