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Florida technology-using educators!
Come to the FACE meeting during FETC and get a light bite of some great Italian food and a drink.
We will celebrate the successes of FACE and Florida teachers using educational technology in a social setting.
Come to meet your FACE officers and other FACE members.
If you will attend, please RSVP. If you are bringing a friend, please include that.
Free for members with current dues and $10 for non-member spouses. FETC members will get two drink tickets. Nonmembers can join FETC for $25.
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Time: January 14, 2010 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Maggiano's Little Italy
Street: 9101 International Drive in Pointe Orlando
City/Town: Orlando, FL
Phone: 407-241-8650 restaurant
Organized By: Dr. Rita Oates and FACE officers 305 788 4302 cell

Our formal business meeting will be from 11-11:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 15 in the convention center. Note: there is no food at Friday's meeting.

Oh funny! You know what? I've been emailing/tweeting with Dawn Weinman, and I think she works at Shorecrest too! This Web 2.0 stuff sure makes the world smaller! ;-)

Thank you for your quick feedback! It sounds like I'm doing OK. I shared the rubric with my kids, and we took a sample narrative piece and rated it ourselves. Then we made a list of what we thought the evaluators would be focusing in on the most: structure, strong/organized paragraphs, topic and concluding sentences, sticking to the prompt--everything you mentioned.

Right now I'm reading the practice pieces they've written and giving them "Glow" and "Grow" feedback on a post-it note. I hope they will transfer my "grow" suggestions into their writer's notebooks as a means to keep track of what their personal writing challenges are. I am mostly finding that the kids forget to tie their stories up by re-stating or at least revisiting the prompt. Hopefully that will be an easy fix with some discussion before next week. Anyway, thank you so much for your thoughts, and I really like the idea of giving the WrAP early and then using the results to drive instruction! I'm going to suggest that to our curricular leadership team.

Best!
Stephanie

Hi Amy! I noticed that you mentioned the ERB WrAP in one of your comments on another discussion thread. My 4th graders are about to take the WrAp next week, and we spent this week and last writing practice pieces around sample prompts. (Our writing curriculum isn't centered on prompt-writing so it's not the type of writing that I teach all year).

Anyway, now I have 20 practice WrAP pieces (narrative), and I'm wondering how to best give my feedback in the limited time that I have. I really don't have time to confer in depth with each one like I typically do within a study, but I do want to suggest maybe the top 5 things each student could focus on next week at test time. What tips do you give your students before the WrAP? How do you structure your prep. time? Thanks for any feedback!

Amy
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Jim