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Welcome, Parent Volunteers!

Thank you for coming! This meeting will introduce available volunteer opportunities and provide important information on responsibilities, confidentiality, and behavior management. Tips for supporting reading, writing, and math will also be discussed.

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Welcome, Parent Volunteers!

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  1. Welcome, Parent Volunteers! Thank you for coming.

  2. Introductions and purpose for meeting

  3. Available Opportunities • Assist the teacher in the classroom • Help prepare instructional materials • Assist during recess • Chaperoning school events/field trips • At-home projects • PTA • Book Room /Leveling Core Books • Media Center

  4. Volunteer Responsibilities • Complete the online training module • Register in the main office upon arrival (please remember your drivers license or ID) • Notify the school if unable to volunteer • Communicate with the teacher and carry out only assigned duties • Work with students within view of the teacher • Comply with school policies and regulations • Respect confidentiality • Make arrangements for pre-school age children

  5. Confidentiality & Behavior Management Ms. McGrady • What happens in the classroom, stays in the classroom. Or at least, in the school house. • Discipline is the teacher’s domain

  6. Tips for a great volunteer experience: • Conference with the teacher before your volunteer time • Help develop a routine • Treat your child as any other in the room • Save questions regarding your child’s performance for a conference time

  7. Tips to help children with reading and writing • Hint, don’t tell • Use of text clues • Rereading/revisit text • Wait time • Stretching words • Words of encouragement

  8. Words Their Way • Students practice their words, sorting daily, and engaging in other activities meant to strengthen their use of the patterns and vocabulary development. • 5 Spelling Stages • Emergent • Letter-Name Alphabetic • Within Word Pattern • Syllables and Affixes • Derivational Relations

  9. Ways to Help Support the WTW Program • Blind Sorts/Blind Writing Sorts • Speed Sorts • Repeated Sorts • Word Hunts • Drawing/Labeling • Games

  10. Six Traits of Writing • Ideas and Development • Organization • Voice • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Conventions

  11. Tips for Writer’s Workshop Do…. • Convey positive comments • Ask questions to prompt • Highlight student strengths • Encourage adding detail • Discuss word choice • Empower young writers Don’t…. • Point out all errors • Pick up the pen and fix student work • Send a child to the dictionary • Expect perfection • Give ideas or dictate sentences

  12. High Leverage Mathematics Instructional Practices An instructional emphasis that approaches mathematics learning as problem solving 2) An instructional emphasis on cognitively demanding conceptual tasks that encourage all students to remain engaged in the task without watering down the expectation level 3) Instruction that places the highest value on student understanding 4) Instruction that emphasizes the discussion of alternative strategies

  13. High Leverage Mathematics Instructional Practices (Continued) 5) Instruction that includes extensive mathematics discussion generated through effective teacher questioning 6) Teacher and student explanations to support strategies and conjectures 7) The use of multiple representations

  14. Tips to help children with math • Use Curriculum 2.0 math vocabulary • Underline/circle key words • Encourage/use wait time • Provide multiple examples • Prompt student thinking with questions • Use of manipulatives

  15. General Information • School map/calendar • Parking • Lockdown/Shelter in Place and fire drills • Communication • School system policies and regulations on Parent and Family Involvement: www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/abc.pdf www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/abcra.pdf

  16. The Volunteer Margaret A. Francis The Volunteer is one with a heart so sincere.No task too large, no task too small,Who will help with anything at all.Who will be there in the morning light,Or help in the dark of night.The Volunteer, our extra hand,On whose future our Children Stand. Never anyone so dear as a Somerset Volunteer !

  17. Questions

  18. Technology Break Out Session If you haven’t completed the online child abuse and neglect training module, please use the chromebook to go the following web address: http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/ If you have already completed the online child abuse and neglect training module, please sit with Mrs. Flores to review Somerset’s online resources.

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