Another Awesome Week @Manor New Tech (Week 5)

During Week 5 at Manor New Tech High School, I had the opportunity to have many follow-up meetings with teachers on our last PD Topics (resolving conflicts with students & building partnerships with parents) and I also got to observe classrooms across disciplines.  I also co-developed next week’s training on literacy tasks with Stephanie Ehler and analyzed the progressions of expectations in the T-TESS rubrics and connected these to PBL evidence.

Mrs. Garner’s Art class just completed a project on memories.  They had to create miniature sculptures that represented their memories and write reflections that explained their work.  I liked how the sculpture shown in the right, top and bottom panes really embodies the darkness and the fear in the nightmare memory it represents.

memory_sculptures

Mrs. Garner’s Art 2 class is currently working on creating life-sized 3-D wire sculptures of faces.  She scaffolded this daunting task by first allowing them to play with the wire and build simple small pieces in order to get used to the medium.  She also led a lesson on facial drawings in order to teach students the proportions of facial features.wire_sculturesIn the Geometry/Engineering class, I observed Ms. Davis teaching students how to draw oblique (cavalier & cabinet) drawings.  They will use this skill to design and build a puzzle cube made of smaller cubes.

3DDrawingsIn Mrs. Pedroza’s Statistics class, students are making and analyzing measurements in order to determine which brands of cereal and cookies are the best.

cereal,jpgIn Mr. Ray’s and Mr. Adeboyejo’s Bio/BioTech class, students are developing children’s books about cells.  As part of the project scaffolding, they observed plant, animal and bacteria cells under the microscope and documented their observations.

see_cellsTo observe animal cells, they harvested cells from their own cheeks. They learned how to gather the cells, how to place the cells on slides and how to add dye to the slides to make the cells more visible.

harvest_cellsOn Wednesday, Gear Up hosted a Career & College Fair for the entire school.  Here are pictures of our seniors interacting with the company and career representatives.

fairIn Ms. Valderrama’s AV class, students created mini documentaries about people in their lives.  I got to observe the presentations and appreciated how several students chose members from older generations who had a lot of interesting stories to tell.

interviewsIn Mrs. Schimel’s Physics class, students are applying the Physics they have learned to make predictions about the performance of their solar cars.  See bottom left.  In Ms. Tilllson’s and Ms. Thompson’s Humanities class, students identified and explored issues of the Progressive Era and of today.  See bottom right.

In Mrs. Schimel’s Physics class, students are applying the Physics they have learned to make predictions about the performance of their solar cars.  See bottom left.  In Ms. Tilllson’s and Ms. Thompson’s Humanities class, students identified and explored issues of the Progressive Era and of today.  See bottom right.

issuresIn Mr. Foster’s 9th Grade Physics class, students used their iPads to gather motion data on their roller coasters so they can investigate conservation of energy.

rollercoasterIn Mr. Chamber’s and Mrs. Fain-Jackson’s 10th grade Humanities class, students created artifacts from the Nile Valley.

nileI created a Google spreadsheet to analyze and make connections with the T-TESS rubric.  I like how the criteria set really high expectations for student-centered learning and I like how many connections can be made between the rubric and project-based learning.

T-TESS

 

 

 

 

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