November+8,+2010

Pick a name at random to write the minutes:

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=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

1. "Five Minute Strategy Session"
 * Vicki: Tableau

2. Brief Discussion on the Reading Devine passed out
 * Briefly talk about part 1 today.
 * Read part 2 this week and respond to the wiki discussion by next week.

3. Expository Formative Assessments
 * What do we want our students to be able to do? What is a good paragraph?
 * Teacher model (among ourselves)
 * Plan to share examples at each level
 * Volunteers:
 * Level, Teacher, Date
 * 11/15 (too early?)
 * 11/29
 * 12/6
 * 1/10
 * 1/24

4. Planning for Peer Observations (may need to be moved to next week)

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:

1. Vicki talked to us about Quizlab. This is Mygradebook.com's quiz making feature. 2. Discuss Part 1 of Anthony's handout 3. Expository Formative Assessments
 * Types of questions/reports handout
 * Awesome for multiple choice & true/false (does not grade short answer)
 * Can do a time limit for questions to deter cheating
 * ELD Collaboration Survey
 * Give first two weeks of essays full credit
 * Possible all levels make 3 paragraph essays (instead of 5 in Advanced, 4 in Intermediate, etc.)
 * 1C/2C is focusing on 4 paragraph essay (Pearson)
 * Focus on 1 solid paragraph for Expository and multi-paragraph for Persuasive