December+7,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

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

1. Language Acquisition Presentation (Cleophus)
 * Devine will ask for the Monday after Winter Break (after school).
 * 2 meetings
 * 1st: Information from Cleophus and begin to develop a plan for how this new knowledge will influence our lessons.
 * 2nd (1 or 2 weeks later): Come together and reflect on how we have used the information to make our lessons more effective for language learners.

2.  Expository Formative Assessment (Anthony) >>
 * Now that we have agreed to the format, how are things going?
 * How did we/will we approach the practice prompt/reading to prepare students for this week's Formative Assessment?
 * What are our production expectations at each level? How much will each level produce?
 * Beginning: One short introduction (1-2 sentences) paragraph and one body paragraph with 5 sentences (Topic, Evidence, Explanation, Address the Bias, Concluding sentence)
 * High Beginning (3-paragraph essay with bias and at least two uses of evidence and explanation for each)
 * Intermediate (3-paragraph essay (minimum sentences of 4+8+4); bias in the intro, body, and conclusion; 3 uses of evidence/explanation in the body; topic and concluding sentences in the body.
 * Advanced (5-paragraph essay; bias in each body paragraph; topic & concluding sentences; minimum 3 uses of evidence in each body paragraph)
 * Formative Assessment Calendar of Events

3. ECAP (Jenn)
 * Show the resource page.
 * How are we implementing this element?
 * What have we done so far?

4. Improving Student Engagement (Anthony)
 * Let's begin the work we talked about last week.

=Minutes:= 1. Cleophus gave a quick description of what we can expect to learn from his presentation: Theories of Language Acquisition. 2. Expository essay plan: --ELD "skips" week 5, Reading "skips" week 4 (and uses them for practice); --Intermediate will also practice by writing an essay "how is alcohol like a drug" --ELD essay production levels: please type in your level's essay writing expectations, above. Include where you expect to see bias and thesis --bring 1 sample of your lowest passing essay (score of 2) to the next collaboration, in January, to help prepare calibration 3. ECAP sequencing plan for ELD: check the ECAP page for "Intermediate Sequencing" plan. 4. Jenn is supposed to start a discussion on student engagement? Or we are all supposed to start one? (I'll have to check my notes from last week); --Jenn volunteered to organize the page a little, though there is so much overlapping between strategies, not sure what can be done. --everyone needs to type a very short description of their engagement strategy

HOMEWORK RE-CAP A. type in your level's essay writing expectations, above B. bring 1 sample of your lowest passing essay (score of 2) to the next collaboration, in January C. start a discussion on your particular student engagement strategy