WEBVTT 00:00:05.076 --> 00:00:06.136 Jolina Haines: My name is Jolina Haines. 00:00:06.136 --> 00:00:10.136 I'm a tenth grade English teacher at Western Hills University High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. 00:00:10.136 --> 00:00:13.276 Haines to class: Once you guys are finished, then I will run the Scantron through 00:00:13.276 --> 00:00:15.076 and give you feedback as to what you guys need. 00:00:15.076 --> 00:00:19.406 Haines: One of the ways I determine the students that need academic support is 00:00:19.406 --> 00:00:21.536 by looking at some of their test scores. 00:00:21.666 --> 00:00:25.356 We look at Dashboard, which is a district website that we can go to that breaks 00:00:25.356 --> 00:00:33.036 down the student's individual needs based on the standards and the indicators on the test, 00:00:33.876 --> 00:00:36.746 and it tells me what I need to work on with the individual students. 00:00:37.006 --> 00:00:41.106 Another way that I can figure out what a student needs is by just looking at the work 00:00:41.106 --> 00:00:45.066 that they turn in, and if they are struggling with something, 00:00:45.116 --> 00:00:47.606 then I can figure out what the student needs as a whole. 00:00:47.606 --> 00:00:52.146 Haines to student in class: It's basically understanding what you read, so what do you think? 00:00:52.686 --> 00:00:54.916 Look at your choices and go through them, 00:00:54.916 --> 00:00:58.446 and you guys need to figure out why they're wrong or why they're right. 00:00:58.766 --> 00:01:01.726 Haines: We provide a lot of academic support for our students. 00:01:02.176 --> 00:01:04.536 One thing that we do is after-school help sessions. 00:01:04.536 --> 00:01:08.246 After-school help sessions are held everyday after school, 00:01:08.286 --> 00:01:11.466 and students are allowed to attend to come in to check on their grade, 00:01:11.896 --> 00:01:15.276 or they can just come in to get makeup work or get that additional help 00:01:15.276 --> 00:01:18.326 that they need one-on-one that they might not be able to get in the classroom 00:01:18.326 --> 00:01:20.966 when you have 30 students in the classroom. 00:01:20.966 --> 00:01:22.266 They can come in, and they can get that, 00:01:22.266 --> 00:01:24.976 and they can expect that I am going to give my best to them at all times. 00:01:25.526 --> 00:01:28.876 Another academic support that we use is our team time. 00:01:28.876 --> 00:01:34.046 During team time, we call students in to say, "we're concerned about this," 00:01:34.046 --> 00:01:35.536 or, "we're concerned about that." 00:01:35.586 --> 00:01:38.816 But we also sometimes do call them in to tell them that they're doing a good job. 00:01:39.096 --> 00:01:41.916 Not all of our students get that encouragement at home, 00:01:41.916 --> 00:01:45.346 so they need to know that they're doing a good job and that we're acknowledging them. 00:01:45.426 --> 00:01:47.476 Student to Haines: I think it's symbolizing, like, 00:01:47.866 --> 00:01:51.196 a hardship with their family, but they overcame that problem. 00:01:51.196 --> 00:01:54.456 Haines to student: That is very insightful. 00:01:54.456 --> 00:01:56.996 Haines: We have another program that supports the students, 00:01:56.996 --> 00:02:00.136 and what it does is it takes outside tutors and brings them into the school 00:02:00.136 --> 00:02:01.856 to help individuals with their needs. 00:02:02.336 --> 00:02:05.096 Again, they get the instruction, and they might get it a different way, 00:02:05.096 --> 00:02:06.476 which might click with the students. 00:02:06.606 --> 00:02:11.026 Haines to students: So, you guys, do you understand why the title is important to the story? 00:02:11.656 --> 00:02:14.476 Haines: Another instructional support that we offer our students, 00:02:14.476 --> 00:02:17.346 is the fact that we are team-based school, and on a team-based school, 00:02:17.346 --> 00:02:19.126 you get a chance to know the students. 00:02:19.126 --> 00:02:20.706 You get to know them on a personal level, 00:02:21.036 --> 00:02:24.396 which also helps them with their standards and with their academics. 00:02:24.606 --> 00:02:29.316 They perform better because the students see that we have a personal interest in these students. 00:02:29.706 --> 00:02:33.956 Another instructional support that we use is a program on our computers, 00:02:34.016 --> 00:02:37.966 which we do our grade book on, and it also allows parents access through the internet 00:02:37.966 --> 00:02:41.486 into our grade books so that they can see what their individual student is doing 00:02:41.486 --> 00:02:43.146 in our classroom, how they are performing. 00:02:43.146 --> 00:02:45.576 They can also see some of the comments that I might be writing 00:02:45.976 --> 00:02:47.886 on a section, where you put in assignments. 00:02:47.886 --> 00:02:51.196 Sometimes I write comments at the bottom: "Doesn't understand," "Needs more work on..." 00:02:51.256 --> 00:02:52.316 whatever they need work on. 00:02:52.316 --> 00:02:55.066 And the parents can see this so that they can understand what their student needs 00:02:55.066 --> 00:02:56.536 or their child needs additional help with. 00:02:57.166 --> 00:02:59.146 They can also receive e-mails. 00:02:59.616 --> 00:03:03.996 We can send e-mail through that system, and I can send individual e-mails conferencing 00:03:03.996 --> 00:03:06.376 with the parents, like this is what he or she needs help on. 00:03:06.756 --> 00:03:10.496 What's great about this program that we use, in terms of connection with the parents, 00:03:10.496 --> 00:03:12.606 is that they have a deeper understanding of the standards 00:03:12.656 --> 00:03:14.096 that we are addressing in the classroom. 00:03:14.426 --> 00:03:17.716 They can also see what their children are missing, and therefore, 00:03:17.716 --> 00:03:19.636 they can provide additional help at home. 00:03:19.836 --> 00:03:21.996 Maybe they can seek tutoring outside of the school. 00:03:22.306 --> 00:03:27.616 Sometimes the parents like to contact us and say, "Let's come up with a plan together." 00:03:27.616 --> 00:03:30.166 We don't always get the greatest parental involvement, 00:03:30.306 --> 00:03:33.606 but this is a way that we encourage our parents to get involved with our students, 00:03:34.036 --> 00:03:38.256 is that continual contact at home, that open-door, 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, 00:03:38.256 --> 00:03:40.236 they can get in, and they can see what their kids are doing. 00:03:40.686 --> 00:03:42.596 Haines to class: So, we talked about word choice the other day. 00:03:42.596 --> 00:03:44.306 My question to you is: Why these words? 00:03:44.306 --> 00:03:47.416 Why couldn't they just put it into terms that we all can understand? 00:03:48.266 --> 00:03:52.636 Student: I think it's because they want us to brighten our horizon, basically. 00:03:52.756 --> 00:03:56.456 Haines: Another instructional support that we use is the seminar program. 00:03:56.846 --> 00:03:59.106 We just stop school every Wednesday morning. 00:03:59.246 --> 00:04:02.356 We come in, the kids get with the teacher, and we sit in a circle, 00:04:02.356 --> 00:04:03.946 and we just discuss a piece of literature. 00:04:03.946 --> 00:04:08.486 And what it does is it makes the students delve into the content a little bit deeper, 00:04:08.896 --> 00:04:12.506 where maybe in the classroom, they just get basic recall, but during seminar, 00:04:12.506 --> 00:04:13.906 they get to express their opinions. 00:04:13.906 --> 00:04:16.375 They get to express their views, but they do it 00:04:16.375 --> 00:04:19.266 by using textual support to say what they really mean. 00:04:19.266 --> 00:04:28.226 Student: I've grown in better reading because I can analyze text better than I used to. 00:04:28.226 --> 00:04:30.886 I can understand the story better. 00:04:30.886 --> 00:04:34.716 Haines: The students have really increased in their knowledge through this program. 00:04:35.136 --> 00:04:36.866 They understand things at a deeper level. 00:04:36.866 --> 00:04:38.906 They're actually questioning things during class, 00:04:38.906 --> 00:04:41.796 and sometimes you can even see the class slip into a seminar mode. 00:04:42.196 --> 00:04:44.486 This is where the deeper levels of understanding began, 00:04:44.566 --> 00:04:49.606 and this is where the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy are achieved, 00:04:49.796 --> 00:04:53.616 it's through this analysis, this synthesis, through all of that. 00:04:53.616 --> 00:04:56.876 And the students aren't just looking at a story as a story anymore. 00:04:56.876 --> 00:04:59.576 They realize that there is more going on in the deeper levels. 00:04:59.836 --> 00:05:02.976 This doesn't only help English; it also helps social studies, 00:05:02.976 --> 00:05:05.096 it helps science, and it helps the math content. 00:05:05.696 --> 00:05:09.696 And we even read stories and those other content areas, even in a math class, 00:05:09.966 --> 00:05:15.246 so they get the time to understand what the standards are and how to apply them 00:05:15.246 --> 00:05:16.926 in a classroom at a deeper level.