Developing the Intellect through Inquiry and Investigation

Structures -Fall 2014

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Meet the Administration

Principal:

Assistant Principal:Insert image

(Insert your school name) FUTURA Center ScheduleServing:

Monday-

Tuesday-

Wednesday-

Thursday-

Friday-

FUTURA Goals

#1 To become divergent creative thinkers who recognize problems and solve them.

#2 To construct personal meaning and understanding of others and of the world around them.

#3 To develop the capacity for self assessment. (ownership of the learning)

Expectations• Involvement in active learning• Development and use of planning

strategies• Utilization of problem solving

techniques• Application of core content

learning to projects and products• Flexibility and critical thinking• Collaboration with fellow

students• Perseverance and task

commitment• Maintenance of proper classroom

decorum

Structures: meet the needs of the

designer/user. provide frameworks. are self-supporting. can be modified. are a meaningful arrangement of

elements.

Possible Topics Under Structures

Systems

Systems have a design Systems have a function Systems have boundaries Systems can change Systems have parts that interact

Essential Understandings:

Possible Systems Units

Independent Interest Centers

Satisfy curiosities Develop tenacity Foster independence

Assessments1st 1st Skill 2nd 2nd 1 2 3 4 5 6

S T Goal Setting

 

S T Given the opportunity, the student does not demonstrate this skill

Attempts to set goals but unable to meet them

Sets appropriate goals and works to meet them with guidance

Independently sets appropriate goals and works to meet them

Independently sets and meets appropriate goals

Independently sets and meets appropriately challenging goals

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Our Typical Day

Students are transported by bus from their home school to and from (insert school name) Elementary.

Interest

CentersStructures Curriculum

Enrichment Lunch and Recess

Your Attendance Is Important To Us!

If your student is going to be absent, please contact your child’s home school as well as the FUTURA center. (Insert FUTURA center school name)Elementary at (insert phone number) .

Hungry?

Lunch Time is (insert time)

Communication Binder

FUTURA News

Completed

Assignments

and Graded

Rubrics

FUTURA WebsiteInsert URL for your school

Required Forms at FUTURA

Emergency Form

Student Rights and Responsibilities

Contact Information Card

Emergency

Medicines at FUTURA

Make sure the (insert school name) clinic has any

medications/forms your child might need.

Worried?

Make-Up Work Policy

All students have two days to make-up essential base school work.

*Please let us know, if this becomes a stressful issue for your child.

Withdrawals or Changes in Placement

Parent Concerns/Conferences

(Insert school name) Elementary

Insert school phone #

Best times to call:8:00-8:45 am1:45-2:45 pm

EmailInsert email address

Giving Tree:

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