February+23,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=


 * 1) Assign today's collaboration date to equally share the responsibility to record the minutes
 * 2) D and F reports
 * 3) Expository Formative Assessments and Benchmark
 * 4) Peer Observations: March 11th and 12th. Feedback on 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
 * 5) Bloom's Critical Thinking tutorial


 * 1) Review D and F rates. If you need a call home send an e-mail to Maxine. Include the home phone numbers, the message, and the language needed. Students can re-take tests, but the highest score they can get is a C.
 * 2) Benchmark Assessments are Tuesday and Wednesday. Review the prompt. Any changes? Jenn is making a ton of copies for our team. Thanks Jenn!
 * 3) Peer Observations: Make it as comfortable as possible. No writing in the classroom. Keep mental notes while observing. Use flip chart to see which levels of Bloom's Taxonomy are being used. Reflect on the wiki on what you observed in other classrooms. Do not use names in the discussions. Just write about what you saw in the observations. Fix Bethe's room number and the sub schedule. The Peer Observations "menu" is on the Peer Observations page.
 * 4) Bloom's Critical Thinking tutorial. The page has many resources. Beyond questioning in class, think about the assignments you assign. What level do your assignments represent? The Bloom's Taxonomy page lists several articles and strategies.