April+27,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=


 * 1) Assign today's collaboration date to equally share the responsibility to record the minutes
 * 2) To address the concerns from our last meeting:  Course Survey Questions
 * 3) Whole group discussion: A great idea for presenting the entire paper to our students
 * 4) If time: Break into small groups to discuss the research paper

1. Maxine suggests that the ESL team come up a course survey in response to our D /F rate. The survey is divided into ELD and Reading classes. There should be no more than 10 questions. Maxine will send us the completed survey via Survey Monkey. 2. Anthony Devine introduced a prompt for our students to guide them in their research writing. Also, there is an outline of the research paper that students will follow when writing their paper. A rubric will be passed out to students. 3. On pg. 701 in the Edge (high beginning) has an example of a research paper and citation examples. 4. Make sure that students know how to introduce their quotes by using lead ins and transitions (i.e. according to).