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Downtown Denver
Fort Collins<br />
• 144,000<br />
inhabitants<br />
• 122 km²<br />
• 100 km north of<br />
Denver<br />
• 1,525 m a.s.l.<br />
• Colorado State<br />
University
German-American Friendship
POUDRE HIGH SCHOOL and FORT COLLINS<br />
HIGH SCHOOL<br />
• 1800 students from<br />
grade 9 to 12<br />
• 400 in IB<br />
• One of <strong>the</strong> 4 HS of FC<br />
• Highest poverty school<br />
in FC<br />
• 2000 students from 9 to<br />
12<br />
• Well settled middle<br />
class students
Poudre hallways
Scheduling<br />
• Teachers: 7:15 to 15:30<br />
• Classes: 7:45 to 15:05<br />
• Mondays: Eight single periods<br />
• The o<strong>the</strong>r days: Four 90 minutes blocks<br />
• Lunch break: 11:00 to 11:45<br />
• Five hours weekly per subject (= 30 hours)<br />
• Teachers teach 6 out of 8 per day (= 30 hours)
Facilities at Poudre<br />
• 3 computer labs<br />
• Media Centre<br />
• Cafeteria<br />
• Kitchen<br />
• Large department<br />
rooms (PC & desks<br />
for every teacher)<br />
• Huge classrooms<br />
(all with laptop,<br />
projectors etc..)
Well equiped rooms
• 1 principal<br />
Administration at Poudre HS<br />
• 2 assistant principals<br />
• 2 IB coordinators<br />
• AP coordinator(s)<br />
• 3 guidance counselors<br />
• 3 deans<br />
• Numerous Secretaries<br />
• Student helpers
Attendance<br />
• Attendance<br />
office<br />
• Online program<br />
• Consequences:<br />
• 3 unexcused<br />
absences:<br />
ISSR<br />
• No unexcused<br />
absence:<br />
no final test
DISCIPLINE ISSUES<br />
• Deans<br />
• Campus<br />
monitors<br />
• In school<br />
suspension<br />
room (ISSR)
Student support<br />
• Learning lab / 2 Tutors<br />
• Teachers available<br />
during and after<br />
school<br />
• Outreach workers<br />
• Special expectations<br />
case managers<br />
• Programs for students<br />
with special needs<br />
• Laptop for every<br />
student targeted
Communication with parents<br />
• Inmmediate online information about<br />
– Current attendance<br />
– Grades<br />
– Homework<br />
• Attendance office<br />
• Deans<br />
• Outreach workers
Instruction<br />
• Transparency:<br />
Agenda and Goals on<br />
Whiteboard<br />
• Weekly quizzes<br />
• Frequent use of<br />
technology<br />
• Grades based on<br />
tests: reduced<br />
student participation<br />
• Standard based<br />
grading
Classroom pictures
World<br />
languages at<br />
Poudre<br />
• 5 learner levels<br />
• 2 years of second<br />
language required for<br />
IB and college<br />
• Entry points at each<br />
grade level<br />
• 5 Spanish, 2 German,<br />
2 French teachers<br />
• Teachers very active,<br />
students often<br />
receptive
P.E. facilities at Poudre
Gyms and fields<br />
• 2 large gyms<br />
• 1 big wrestling gym<br />
• 1 huge wheights room<br />
• 1 cardio room<br />
• 4 tennis fields<br />
• 2 football fields<br />
• 2 soccer fields<br />
• 2 baseball fields<br />
• 1 track and fields stadium
PE: What is different to JFKS?<br />
• Only in 2 out of 4 school years mandatory PE<br />
instruction<br />
• High reputation of PE activities – hallways full<br />
of awards<br />
• No reduction hours but extra payment for<br />
coaches<br />
• Mandatory health seminar<br />
• 1:1 support of disabled students<br />
• PE: a mean to get onto very good colleges or<br />
universities (scholarship)
Dress down Friday – Football coach<br />
<strong>John</strong> knight
• Due to preparations of<br />
AP and IB exams often<br />
tests, homework and<br />
quiz revisions<br />
• In lower grades often<br />
lecture with media<br />
support (e.g. on white<br />
board, projector and<br />
but also labs)<br />
• Lots of acid and base<br />
calculation<br />
Science
BIO Anatomy Lab<br />
• Live dissecting of 8 cats on <strong>the</strong> digestion<br />
system – no student screaming nor moaning<br />
• In former years dissection of a horse<br />
• NO PHOTO (SORRY)
Teacher<br />
evaluation<br />
• Only 1 semester of<br />
student teaching<br />
• 3 years on probation<br />
• Teacher‘s licence<br />
renewed every 5th<br />
year (6 credits)<br />
• Credit points for<br />
working out curricula<br />
and in-service-training<br />
• 16 hours: 1 credit<br />
• 13 credits: 1000 $<br />
more per year
Teacher<br />
candidates<br />
• Close cooperation<br />
with CSU<br />
• 1 semester<br />
internship<br />
• Teacher panel<br />
• Student panel
Activities &<br />
Clubs<br />
Some examples:<br />
•Colorado Youth<br />
Outdoors<br />
•Debate/Forensics<br />
•Environmental<br />
Education Club<br />
•Friends of Rachel<br />
•Hispanic Youth<br />
Promoting Excellence<br />
•Model United<br />
Nations
Main differences<br />
• Much more personnel (from administration to<br />
cleaning staff)<br />
• Teachers are more focused on teaching (30 h.<br />
p. w., 1:1 tutoring after class) and have less<br />
administrative and social worker tasks<br />
• Spacious and well equipped facilities<br />
• Teaching and testing is more standardized<br />
• Special needs are addressed in a professional<br />
way
Conclusions<br />
• Many good ideas and awareness of new instructional<br />
methods<br />
• Friendly and welcoming American colleagues<br />
• Better understanding of <strong>the</strong> challenges our colleagues and<br />
students face, when <strong>the</strong>y are coming to <strong>the</strong> JFKS<br />
• And finally we discovered: it´s wonderful to travel and to<br />
work with colleagues with so interesting subjects and<br />
different characters; a real interdisciplinary trip
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