meeting 4: 10/24/12

10/24/12

Feedback Form #4https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LiDMMhjSRN1cFmhKgpUw13k--5mO4o08X9qYPBE_ezc/edit

From Leah: 

1. At PLC meetings #2 and #3, you discussed and answered questions about the 21 st

Century Skills of Critical Thinking and Reasoning and Information Literacy that

are embedded in your standards. Today, take a short time at the beginning of your

meeting to explore the 21st Century Skill of Collaboration.

"21st Century" Definition of Collaboration (Reading, Writing and Communicating)

Reading, writing, and communicating must encompass collaboration skills. Students should be able to collaborate with each other in multiple settings: peer groups, one-on-one, in front of an audience, in large and small group settings, and with people of other ethnicities. Students should be able to participate in a peer review, foster a safe environment for discourse, mediate
opposing perspectives, contribute ideas, speak with a purpose, understand and apply knowledge of culture, and seek others’ ideas.


Collaboration Discussion: Link to Document

2. Plan a common assessment on Public speaking ELO:

The ELO reads like this: 

Students will develop the ability to speak formally to their peers by presenting information concisely and logically, supporting presentations with evidence, and integrating technology effectively, and interacting with an audience actively.

4 traits?

Link to our public speaking folder:

meeting 3: 10/3/12

Agenda

PLC Meeting #3

October 3, 2012 in C-17

Feedback Form

(From Leah) 1. At PLC meeting #2, you discussed and answered questions about the 21 st Century

Skill of Critical Thinking and Reasoning that is embedded in your standards. Today,

take a short time at the beginning of your meeting to explore the 21 st Century Skill

of Information Literacy.

Information Literacy (Reading, Writing and Communicating)

The student who is information-literate accesses information efficiently and effectively by reading and understanding essential content of a range of informational texts and documents in all academic areas. This involves evaluating information critically and competently; accessing appropriate tools to synthesize information; recognizing relevant primary and secondary information; and distinguishing among fact, point of view, and opinion.

•   Discuss and answer the three questions that follow. Include at least one example of what you are already doing or plan to do to help students master this skill. Please record your answers on Feedback Form #2 or on the attached document and send your answers to me.

1. How does the skill of Information Literacy connect to something you already do in your classroom?

2. How might you integrate this skill more explicitly in your lessons?

3. What will you do to help students become better with this skill?

Thesis common assessment: 

• 30 minutes of data entry
• Data driven dialogue with examples and data:

1. Observations

2. Inferences, implications.

3. Action

Common Assessment #2? Set a date or window for administering the assessment? Plan to have the data collected by your next meeting on October 24th?

7. Complete the yellow sections of the PLC Feedback Form #3 and the PLC Progress Report #3. Keep these for your records and please send a copy of each to Leah Latta by Friday, October 5th.