February+27,+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:
 * Bethe || Cadwell || Devine || Egipto || Gross || Jacoub || McGlenn || Sagapolutele || Harris || Patton ||

1. Volunteers sign up for Walqui chapter 4 2. Term 2 student observation and data collection 3. Expository Check-in
 * Explanation for the necessity of teacher observations of academic processes.
 * Perfecting our placement process: the virtues and vices of how we did this last year.
 * How our observations fit in with placement decisions. We need to record our observations so we can use them in placement decisions.
 * How many times should we observe academic processes?
 * Handouts: [|ObservingStudentsInELD2012.pdf]
 * How is the writing process going?
 * Are there any strategies you are using to teach parts of the various paragraphs?
 * Differentiation of scaffolds at the various levels?
 * Scoring? Rubric?

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:
 * read and post chapter 4 summaries by collaboration 3/19
 * Anthony Devine: presentation of data collection process
 * 4 quadrants of scoring (see handout above) to equal a total of 400 points
 * discussion of cut-off scores at end of year
 * at least one round of observation per quarter
 * Michelle noted the importance of accurate data collection for moving up to sheltered classes