Wednesday, January 7, 2009

DATE Change -- PTA Meeting now January 27th, 7-8 pm LGI -- GLAD Strategies

Our January PTA meeting topic is GLAD, or Guided Language Acquisition Development. Teachers Oscar Oyama and Maria Valencia will be presenting and will answer questions. Oscar sends this description:

GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Development) is a teaching strategy that uses visual input charts, chants and cooperative learning to help students develop high level language skills. This is a tool, not a new curriculum, that we are using to teach the State Standards at each grade level.

As a staff, we have all implemented three classroom rules that have worked well with all students. Maria and I will be addressing those rules in the meeting so parents can use them at home so students will know that there is a link between school and home behavior expectations.


As always, babysitting for school age kids is provided.