Wednesday, October 31, 2007

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.

Monday, October 15, 2007

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?

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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.