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Academic Excellence: Back to School Night - Monica Borba

Join Monica Borba at Fallon's Mission Statement event for insights on empowering students towards academic excellence. Learn about collaboration opportunities, Common Core Standards, and language arts highlights to support student success at home.

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Academic Excellence: Back to School Night - Monica Borba

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  1. Back to School Night Monica Borba

  2. Fallon’s Mission Statement The Fallon School community serves life-long student learners within a positive and nurturing environment, where diversity is embraced, and the individual is empowered to reach toward academic excellence, enriched by opportunitiesin sports, fine arts, and community service.

  3. Brief Introduction • Education: • UC Santa Barbara • BA in History, minors in English Literature & Education • Brandman/Chapman University • Credential & post graduate work • Experience: • Substitute Teaching in DUSD, MUSD, TUSD • Long term subbing at Discovery Charter School • Private Tutoring

  4. Contact information

  5. CONTACT INFORMATION EMAIL: borbamonica@dublinusd.net PHONE: (925) 875 – 9376 ext 6368

  6. The 7th & 8th Gradehumanities Team: Opportunities to Collaborate: • Department level • Grade level • Collaboration Wednesdays

  7. Social Studies • Renaissance • Reformation • Scientific Revolution • Exploration • Enlightenment • Rome • Islam • West Africa • China • Japan • Medieval Europe

  8. Common Core Standards! • “Beyond the Bubble Tests” • http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf • Do not fear, because….

  9. Key Focus: Making students college & career ready in reading, writing, speaking, & listening • They demonstrate independence • They build strong content knowledge • They respond to the varying demands of audience, task, & purpose • They comprehend & critique • They value EVIDENCE • They use technology strategically & capably • They come to understand other perspectives & cultures

  10. Language Arts • Reading Comprehension • Writing • Vocabulary • Grammar

  11. Language Arts: Reading • Short Stories: Fiction & Nonfiction • The Outsiders • Poetry • The Giver • Literature Circles

  12. Language Arts: Writing • Personal Narrative • Response to Literature • Argumentative • Research (ties in with social studies) • College Project • SIX TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE WRITING • Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions.

  13. How can I best help my child with their academics? • Communication: • Open & Frequent Communication between students, teachers & parents • Organization: • Minder Binders • Absences • Website • Preparation: • Materials • Study Skills Student Success

  14. Homework • Either preview or review • Studying notes for a quiz or test • A medium to long term project that has been started in class • An essay that has been worked on in class Always check the website!!!!

  15. Assessments • Tests: • study guides will ALWAYS be given in advance • Review in class the day before • I will offer an additional after school review session • Quizzes: • no study guide, but always told in advance to study • 20 points or less • Informal Assessments: • The most ignored but the most valuable!!!

  16. How you can help at home • Writing: go through the RUBRIC and CHECKLISTS together and edit together (six traits) • Checking the Minder Binder • Asking questions!

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