[MOSAIC] reading specialists schedules

[Libby DuVall]

Our monthly strategy lessons are mandatory.  All teachers receive this lesson.  In terms of push-in times, we meet with teachers who have pull-out groups and offer time to them first.  After that, we send our schedule out to teachers and give them the opportunity to sign up for time.  
 
When we do our monthly strategy lessons, we either cancel all pull-out and push-in for 2 days to get the lessons done, or we'll stretch it out to 3 days and keep our pull-out groups running.
 
Libby DuVall
Reading Specialist
Glenwood Intermediate School
Ball-Chatham CUSD#5
http://gis.chathamschools.org/Classroom%20Web%20Pages/Reading%20Web/Reading%20home.htm <http://gis.chathamschools.org/Classroom%20Web%20Pages/Reading%20Web/Reading%20home.htm> 

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Sent: Mon 12/10/2007 7:44 PM
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Subject: [MOSAIC] reading specialists schedules



Wow- after looking at what some of my reading specialist colleagues  are
doing, I feel like we are slackers! There are three of us in a 2-5 building  with
about 600 students. We each have 9 reading groups during the day for 30 
minutes at a time, 4 to 5 days per week. Our district is implementing RTI  tiering,
so we have some tier 3 (no more than 3 kids) and tier 2 (no more than  6)
groups that are pulled out. We grouped them by level early in the year and  are
seeing them that way. We use the new F&P benchmark kit which gives us  the
common language and levels we need between grades. Our time does not permit  much
push in or strategy demonstrations. For those of you that do these in the 
classrooms- are the teachers told you'll be in or do they  volunteer?
back to the original question- seeing any group twice a week for 30  minutes
is not the best- I would only do it with kids who are basically out of 
intervention and just need little boost. I tried to split groups last year  because
of time and when I had kids come twice a week invariably we missed time-  a
kid was out, trips, assemblies, etc. Minimum 3 times per week for minimum 30 
minutes and that should be for the higher performing intervention group.
MIchelle- 2-5 NY reading  specialist



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