Conversation around proposed "Collaborative Lesson Planning" sessions

After reflecting on our conversation around "My cunning plan" to set up an opportunity for teachers to do collaborative lesson planning I have a concern and a request. Please give me as much feedback as you can on both.

Concern: I felt like the protocol used after the reading in which we shared our questions and made comments did not encourage full participation from the whole group. Did it feel the same to you? Suggestions for protocols to use in the future to get help us get broader participation?

After having more time to think about the "Proposal for collaborative work sessions" document
could you please provide additional feedback.

Those of you that missed the meeting can find all the documents including the one referred to above at http://cms9.pps.k12.or.us/.docs/pg/12147

Please talk to your colleagues and give me feed back ASAP so I can use it to shape the plan.

November 15th Presentationa and Materials

You can find all the materials necessary for having fun with your colleagues during this month's exciting PD session by clicking HERE. The agenda is here also.

Please remember to bring your laptops. They will be very important for our activities this month.

Resources on "Application Explorer?"

PPS IT is gradually making the digital teacher resources available to all teachers over the network. You can help me find out how far along they are. Go into the "Application Explorer" on your desktop and click the "All" icon. Do you see a "Digital Teacher Resources" icon in this window? Please leave feedback as a comment to this post. Be sure to leave your name and school so I can follow up and get these resources distributed.

Rick

Feedback on the Oct. 26th P.D. Day

I hope you had some fun and found some value during our PD day on October 26th.
Please leave some feedback about the PD day by clicking the comment link below.

You will be asked for your google account info. If you do not have one just follow the direstions on the link within the comments page

Heads up for our 11/15 meeting

Hi all you Instructional Facilitators,

Thanks to Matt Sten for hosting us in his room (C-29) on November 15th from 4:00 to 6:00 at Madison H.S. for our next meeting. I will posting more info about this meeting soon so check back

Below is a schedule of the meetings for this year.

High School Social Studies
Instructional Facilitators
Schedule & tentative topics

September 13th - Differentiation Using Technology
October 11th - Collaborative Examination of Student Work & Common “Essay” Assignment
November 15th - Strategies for using the “Tech Bundle” to improve instruction
January 10th - AP Strategies that work in all classrooms.
February 14th - Literacy Strategies for “Common Document Based Question” Assignment
March 13th - Literacy Strategies for Common “Critical Response” Assignment
April 10th - Collaborative Review of Common “Essay” Assignment.
May 8th - Data Analysis, year-end evaluation, and plan for 08-09.

Got Resources?

Do all the teachers in your school have the new resources acquired by the district as part of the materials adoption? The Technology? Text resources for Global Studies,U.S. History, Government, and "Literary Book of Economics?"


Please be specific about where you work and what you are missing.

Got Meeting Time?

Was the afternoon of the 4th Monday of September made available for you to meet and conduct the "Instructional Facilitators" PD?

If so, how did it go?
If not, what got in the way?

October I.F. Session

The presentation for our October 11th/22nd PD session can be accessed here

Click the button in the lower right hand corner of the image to view as full screen.

DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR LAPTOP, If you have received yours.
(It's coming Emmett)

All the documents for this month's PD can be found right HERE.

Instructional Facilitators

Welcome to the PPS Instructional Faciltators blog