September+28,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:= Pick a name at random to write the minutes:


 * 1) [|Our Team's Strengths and Weaknesses]
 * After reading through our 7 responders (review Team Norms) one response shared by almost everyone was:
 * a willingness to try new things in the classroom (especially if based on research).
 * 1) Coming Soon: Improving Student Engagement
 * Increase the instances where students are actively engaged by speaking and/or moving for academic purposes.
 * 1) Narrative Formative Assessments
 * Review/change rubrics at each level
 * Create a key for the paragraph
 * Re-order the prompts/paragraphs
 * Post average scores (if not today, then tomorrow at the latest so you don't get behind)

=Collaboration Meeting Minutes:= Note: Everyone needs to contribute to the Wikispace. Common strengths and weaknesses Strength- A willingness to try new things in the classroom if it is research based. -Idea is to make sure that the students in your classroom are engaged and talking to each other (looking for ideas). We will be creating a list and so think of ideas that may work. -New Wikispace page- Improving Student Engagement is for putting strategies that have worked in the classroom to gain student engagement. Put your strategies up on the page every week. (list with instructions). Create a page for the strategy and add the link to this page. After we try the strategies, we will tack our individual progress of the use of these strategies. Weekly Narrative Formative Assessments: -After grading the assessments, click on the results page and post our average scores. Don't count the missing tests. Add them once the students take the tests. -When adding a discussion email the group that you added a new discussion. We need to use more discussions for the formative assessment to help for next year. Broke into group levels to work on rubrics for the Narrative Formative Assessment.