January+12,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=


 * 1) Assign today's collaboration date to equally share the responsibility to record the minutes
 * 2) Home Language Tutorials for Arabic Speakers-update
 * 3) Peer Observations: Decide on a few things that the students should be doing: Cornell Notes, Marking the Text, etc. And What the teacher should be doing: facilitate group work and effective questioning, checking for understanding, etc
 * 4) Expository Rubric
 * 5) Expository Learning Outcomes
 * 6) Expository Formative Assessments: Same process?
 * 7) Homework: All levels: Expository Learning Outcomes
 * 8) For our next meeting: Bring a print-out of your CST profile for each class.


 * 1) Home lang. tutorial update: mandatory for students that do not have much English at all. The purpose of the class is to give students additional beginning level English language instruction.
 * 2) Exit exam after school tutorial: Anyone interested in doing this? Our students will also be attending. Right now Maxine is doing one in room 103 Tuesdays and Thursdays.
 * 3) __Things to do__: **Expository**: we will not be discussing this as much as we did with the Narrative, but we know how to do this now (Formative Assessments). **Peer observation:** we need to start doing this. A few things we should be doing and students should be doing--Cornell Notes--Marking the Text (see Instructional Strategies menu)--Facilitating Group Work--Checking for Understanding (per Whitaker training last term--be sure to give students thinking time--ticket out the door). **CST: This should be our goal for the team. At our next meeting, bring the CST printout for each class (See Performance Profile)**.
 * 4) Expository: Rubric completed following the 9th grade example. Begin planning/teaching this week. Next week (Thursdays) will be the first Expository Formative Assessment.
 * 5) Expository learning outcomes--we need to finish these.
 * 6) Reading and CAHSEE teachers see the Expository rubric to see what needs to be supported. "Anytime you inform, explain, examine, discuss, or interpret in writing, you are developing an expository essay." (Writer's Inc.)
 * 7) Expository Prompt: Explain the prompt to students (the two paragraph prompt).
 * 8) Expository standards: We are focusing on "a" and "e".
 * 9) Review Expository Resources.