March+1,+2010

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

Pick a name at random to write the minutes: [|random_name_selector_collaboration.ppt]

1. Expository Results
 * Results and Discussion

2. How to undertake the persuasive assessments (Sophia)
 * Marking the text
 * Precis

3. ABC Rates
 * [|Quarter 2 ABC Rates for ELD 2009-2010.pdf]

4. Our Goals and Action Steps
 * Discussion on the wiki to be started soon.

= = 1. Expository Results: go to the link. Think about what we did differently and when we had the students do this (a quarter earlier than last year.) Contribute to the discussion, so that we have our thoughts recorded for next year.
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2. How to undertake the persuasive assessments (Sophia): For assessments, we need to give two this week. Give them an article to mark the text and a Precis to identify the author and article information and summarize. This will probably happen next week. From the assessments, we want to know if they can use our templates without our help and identify an author's claim.
 * Marking the text assessment in support: pull a few paragraphs and that way you can give different paragraphs to different students. We are using different paragraphs but assessing the same skill. This will go in the Reading Formative Assessment grading category
 * Precis assessment in ELD: This will go in the Writing Formative Assessment category.

3. ABC Rates
 * [|Quarter 2 ABC Rates for ELD 2009-2010.pdf]With all of the names off, our team looked at our results. Most of our numbers are higher than the school and department rate. Last year we talked about how are are grading and how our grade categories are set up. We also talked about how we are teaching. We should repeat the peer-observation process like last year. Let's look at doing this soon. Look at the rates and talk with the other people who teach your same course and ask what they do that is making them successful. Maybe we could meet and talk about what we would like to see before we observe. We need to look at this as an opportunity to get ideas from each other. We need to be honest and tell if we do not want to do this. We need to write positive things about each other. We will talk more about this later to get an idea of who wants to participate and what we would like to see. This needs to be voluntary and we need to establish the guidelines.

4. Our Goals and Action Steps
 * Discussion on the wiki to be started soon: We have goals with some results, but we are lacking action steps. We need to record these steps as a team. Anthony started this for our writing. We have our SMART goal for writing with three action steps and results. The next thing we need to do is focus on our CST goal. Our system is getting better, so our results should get better. We need to add ideas to our action steps, such as active proctoring, test taking skills, and giving points for marking the text on the test. We should use edusoft to record our results and standards.