Changing focus to the student Using academic vocabulary Developing the learning objective

Parents want to support classroom instruction and communicate with teachers

Check with their child What did they learn today? What are their assignments? What are their grades?

Accessing prior knowledge Importance of learning and why Differentiated instruction

What will students know and be able to do by the end of the lesson? What will students do to prove they have met the objective?

What measures will be used to assess student progress?

Students will be able to find the missing sides of special right triangles by completing several guided practice examples.

Students will be able to find the missing sides of special right triangles.

Students will manipulate a formula to find the lengths of missing sides, given one side of each right triangle.

Students will independently solve three special right triangle problems using the formula.

Students will identify nouns and adjectives by circling and underlining them in sentences.

Students will identify nouns and adjectives in sentences.

Students will circle nouns and underline adjectives in practice sentences.

Students will independently identify nouns and adjectives in three sentences.

Teachers will develop learning objectives in department meetings on Monday, September 27, 2010.