April+16,+2012

media type="custom" key="10428220" Meeting location: room 103

Meeting begins: 8:00am media type="custom" key="10428226" PLC Members take turns recording and posting (see below) the minutes from today's meeting: media type="custom" key="10428230" Collaboration Meeting Agenda: 1.Closing out the Expository Unit 2. Preparing for Quarter 4 3. Reminder to sign up for and read Chapter 5
 * Bethe || Cadwell || Devine || Egipto || Gross || Jacoub || McGlenn || Sagapolutele || Harris || Patton ||
 * finalize the rubric for next year
 * Persuasive-Research Unit
 * Review the [|Advanced ELD ECAP Sequence Q4, 2012.pdf]
 * Discuss pacing and teaching strategies
 * Rubric: [|Persuasive Research Rubric.doc]
 * discussion moved to 4/23 due to last month's staff meeting

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:

We looked at how to change the Expository rubric for next year. Some of the changes we discussed were changing the transitions, plural/singular agreement and the possibility of going back to a previous rubric.

Research/Persuasive Unit- Chapter 6 in the Edge, except for the Beginning level. -To combat cheating and to help with grading Anthony suggested to use the program he piloted. The program is called Criterion. He said that some of us should get trained on using it sometime between now and the begiining of May. We are only piloting Criterion for this unit, however, many that have already used it are complimentory of the program. If you don't want to use the program then you don't have to use it. Criterion helps with giving editing marks and showing students how to fix their essay. -The prompt is online and we can show the prompt to our students. The rubric is from last year and should be ready to use. -We will be using Literacy TA to help with the writing process. -We discussed using limited templates. -We are starting the Research/Persuasive Unit next week. -We discussed the dates for this quarter and they should be posted soon. -All dates for the schedule will be for the entire program. The dates will be up by next Monday. -We will be doing both Unit 6 and our current unit during this quarter.