Welcome to Fourth Grade!
Welcome to the home page of the Fourth Grade Team at Maxwell Escuela de Inmersión en Español! We are very excited to have our website online finally. You can use the links above to navigate to the major areas of our site. We will use this space to keep parents and students informed of what is happening in our classrooms. If you have any suggestions for our website, please contact us.
SPELLING WORDS
Our weekly spelling lists are now online!
FLEXIBLE GROUPING
One effective method of differentiating instruction is the use of flexible grouping. Many of our teams will be using this strategy to meet students at their point of need in the areas of reading and math. All students will be working on grade level content and standards. Flexible grouping affords students the opportunity to receive instruction at their point of need. Some students may need reteaching and direct/explicit instruction. Others succeed in the structure and pacing of the general curriculum while certain students need acceleration. Most of you have just attended your fall conference so you are aware of your student’s achievement levels. This data will be used to determine initial groupings and drive instruction.
Soon students will be grouped based on data from multiple assessments and classroom performance/ observations from the first trimester. These groups are flexible and students may move between groups based upon their needs.
We are fortunate at Maxwell that teachers on grade level teams collaborate and meet weekly for team meetings. The structure for collaboration, discussions about student progress and team planning are already in place. We look forward to employing this strategy to better meet the needs of our students.
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