Laura Zwahl

We discussed the lesson assignment that will be included in her coursework.

Laura reaffirmed that she would like to work with morphology as her main focus area with her gifted students.

• Her students are in Quadrant 1, and all but four of the students are at the highest level of achievement; those four are at grade level.
• She said she is developing a pretest that she would like to use to guide our coaching conversations and will give it to her students on Monday.
• She would like to learn more about the morphology matrices and how to incorporate them into her once-a-week time with kids.
• Once she sends the baseline, we will complete her goal.
  • Currently, this is a goal we have developed: By December 14, after weekly instruction in 10 selected Greek and Latin roots, students will identify the meanings of at least 8 of the 10 roots and accurately infer and explain the meanings of at least 4 of 5 unfamiliar words containing those roots, using word parts and sentence context as evidence.

Next time, we will run through a morphology lesson on using the matrix with her students.