Discussion:
Recap of the summative assessment for HWEO
Looking ahead at the next unit-STP
Summative assessment will be strengthened by adding a graphic organizer for students to explain their understanding of the concepts from the central idea and lines of inquiry
Formative assessments review in next meeting
Provocation: students will walk around the outside of the school and identify living and non living things-they may collect them in jars or photograph with ipads
Action:
Create graphic organizer for summative assessment (Sarah & Emily)
Locate all assessments and rubrics from last year (Trish)
Next meeting:
Location: Veronica's room
Mar 1st, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 22nd, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 15th, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 8th, 2015 Sarah-no specialist cover and requested time for teachers to work on reflections for previous unit
Discussion:
Formative assessment tasks:
Line 1: ways of telling stories: graphic organizer on MB
Line 2: Elements of a story: story plan on MB
Line 3: Responses that stories evoke: ideas could be for students to listen to a story and draw/write their responses (how it makes them feel, images that they have in their minds etc.)at different stages of the story
Summative assessment rubric will need to be adjusted slightly to align with new assessment policy
Learning experience ideas: to create stations such as a role-play are with dress up clothes, a creative area with puppets, plasticene to model characters, construction are to build houses from large cardboard boxes, story centre with fairy tale books, listening centre-cd player-students listen to stories/songs-identify elements of story, record their responses, write the purpose of the story etc.
Parents could also be invited in to read a story aloud to the class, different language stories could also be shared and translated in parts.
Action:
Add tasks for formative assessments on WWA (Eibhlin & Emily)
Revise summative assessment rubric (Sarah)
Create graphic organiser for formative 3 & pre-assessment (G2 team)
HTWW reflections- (all)
Next meeting:
Location: Gill's room
Jan 25th, 2015
Meeting cancelled: We’re needing to cancel today’s meeting due to Asma being out. For some of us this is our only planning lesson and as she is also out tomorrow.
Jan 18th, 2015 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Emily's room
Complete tasks for formative and summative assessments on HTWW
Procedural writing rubric to be shared.
HWEO concert 12th Mar
Integrating specialists for HWEO: Islamic, Arabic, Music
Whole team read through reflections-great ICT activities using Kidspiration & Kidpix-students create their own books
Formative tasks & summative assessment rubric to be sourced from archives
Action:
Formative tasks & summative assessment rubric sourced (Ita/Trish)
Complete tasks for HTWW planner (Emily/Eibhlin)
Research inquiry based activities for planning on Tuesday (all)
Next meeting: Location: Gill's room
Jan 11th, 2015 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Ita Absent: Trish Location: Sarah's room
Dec 18th-Jan 11th Winter Holiday
Dec 7th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Sarah's room
Discussion:
Provocation details need to be added to unit planner
Reflections for WWAPT
CI: People create solutions to changing landforms-need to source summative assessment rubric from last and align standards
This week pre-assessment and provocation-flow chart and panagea
Action:
Reflections WWAPT (all)
Source SA rubric (Ita)
Next meeting: Location: Emily's room
Nov 23rd, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Veronica's room
Discussion:
-HTWW: Formative assessments: line 1: graphic organizer to explain what are the factors that change landforms, line 2: flipbook to show the features of a solution, line 3: map with a grid-children to identify the landforms within the coordinates
Provocation: jigsaw of the world map to be placed together and inspire a discussion about change
ICT: project to create a poster to relate information about landforms
-Inspire the students to create service based action-teacher can guide/model until the students understand the concept
Action:
-Update unit planner with formative assessments (Emily & Eibhlin)
-Reflections on WWAPT (all)
Next meeting:
Location: Sarah's room
Nov 16th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Jessica's room
Discussion:
Nov 9th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Veronica's room
Discussion:
-Weebly unit page, template to inform parents of unit information,the assessment and how they can support their child's learning (PM)
-Information page on action also created and can be added to the Weebly (SG)
-Summative assessment rubric-need to find out if score will be converted to percentage, then scale or if rubric must form the scale to begin with
Meeting adjourned early as G2 are up to date on all other unit related matters. They spent the remaining time planing.
Action:
Add SA rubric to Managebac (Sarah)
Begin research on HWEO unit
Next meeting: Location: Jessica's room
Nov 2nd, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish Absent: Ita Location: Emily's room Discussion:
-Field trips will be on the 19th & 20th November-25 dirhams, forms to be returned by Nov 12th
-Managebac support have added a test task so the task bar should be working now
-UOI tab on Weebly to provide unit information to parents: central idea, lines of inquiry, a description of activities, summative assessment, rubric and ways that parents can support at home
-Action: it would be an idea to email parents/post onto weebly explaining the concept of Action in the PYP so then they could inform you if their child takes unit related action when not in school
-Displays: unit board should display all unit related information; LP attributes, attitudes, skills, concepts etc. Suggestion to dis[play evidence of student work from each inquiry stage aropund the board/around the classroom-include photographs and samples of student work
-Grading: remains the same for quarter 1 with an explanation to parents of how the percentage translates to a point on the 1-4 scale
-Quarter 2: all formatives except spelling and EDM A will be scored from 1-4 in the gradebook
Next meeting:
Location: Sarah's Room
Oct 26th, 2014
Meeting time used to complete reflections on WWA unit.
Oct 19th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita Location: Gill's room Discussion:
Formative assessments for WWAPT unit-lines of inquiry;
1.How people lived in the past-skill: formulating questions, field trip to the Heritage Village, making of flip book based on the following elements; transport, food, school, homes, toys and games-peer assessed
2.Beliefs and traditions that are valued today-Ms Nabeilah to assess in UAE class
3.Historical events that have impacted on society-Group timeline project-skills: adapting group roles, cooperating,peer assessed
-Integrated math based on the concept of time: ordering four digit numbers-dates of historical events, analogue clocks-increments of 5 and 1 minutes
Field trip: ideally organized for week 2-finding out stage when the children can create a list of questions and find out information
Skills aligned to the summative assessment task: analyzing, organizing data,
Action:
Complete reflections on WWA (all)
Find out about math standards for time increments (Trish)
Organize field trip (Ita)
Next meeting: Location: Emily's room
Oct 12th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish Absent: Ita
Location: Roseanne's room Discussion:
New weekly planning template with reflections to begin next week
Tuesday math is to be either math through inquiry, inquiry through math or EDM games practice
WWAPT unit-conceptual understanding of history-teddy bear analogy
Focus on research skills: formulating questions and communication skills: listening and speaking-oral stories about the past
Third formative assessment to be based on life in the past-line of inquiry
Possible guest speaker-fisherman from the heritage village
Key concepts: try to use to explore artifacts from the past-what is it like? How does it work? etc.
Field trip to the Heritage Village
Action:
Contact guest speaker (Trish)
Reflections on WWA unit (all)
Next meeting; Location Gill's room
Standards alignment document
Discussion:
Summative assessment readiness-rubric to be tweaked slightly to omit section 4 about the role play
Taking action stage-encourage whole group action-teacher facilitates the discussion but the children come up with the idea
Formative assessments: role play of conflict resolution and responsibilities of students and other community members
math performance task: tally chart on community places, activity: post it bar graph on community activities
Action:
Update planner with formative assessments, math performance task (Veronica/Jessica)
Begin unit reflections (all)
Begin research for WWAPT unit (all)
Discussion:
Math integration: money, bar graphs of occupations, 2d skyline of city communities-grade team to decide what they are including and edit planner
Language integrations to be included in inquiry cycle
ICT integrations to be discussed, obsolete lessons to be deleted from planner-teacher volunteer who will be responsible for ICT in the grade-Veronica
Reading of portfolio essential agreement and discussion
Begin collection of boxes for 3d community project
Action:
-Update unit planner with summative assessment description, updated learning activities including math, language and ICT integrations, teacher questions (Veronica/Jessica)
-Field trip-discuss this with Aaron (Ita)
Discussion:
-Unit recording chart (MB) completed
-Definition and purpose of a provocation explained
-Necessity and benefit of student reflections
-Parent occupations' survey on the G2 weebly-results will go to Sarah who will then distribute them
School community project to begin in the third week
ICT-Gill planning for this subject so far, Mandala will discuss ideas at carousel
Field trip: to police and fire station only-Post Office couldn't accommodate all ten classes
Extra activities added to tuning in and finding out stages
Action:
Research ideas for formative assessments (all)
Next meeting: Ita's room
Sept 7th, 2014 Present: Sarah, Ita, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill,Trish Location: Eibhlinn's room Discussion:
-Unit records chart; distribution of units to be recorded on MB
-Essential agreements for meetings;
Time efficiency-meetings to begin and end on time,
Stay on topic
One voice, no side conversations, show respect by listening to others without interrupting or speaking over them
Contribute and be involved
-Reading over last year's unit reflections-the following notes were made; guest speakers to be invited in, ICT safety standards could be covered-they fit well with this unit, student jobs could be given to the class so that they feel a part of their class community.
-On reflection a provocation could be to pretend that the canteen staff have to go home-so no lunch/overflowing bin etc. -realize how dependent we are on everyone in our school community for it to function
Action: -Complete unit recording on MB rota (all)
Next meeting: -Review formative assessments
May 25th, 2014
No school today: Isra' Wal Miraj Holiday
May 18th, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris Discussion:
-Reflections to be completed
May 11th, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris Discussion: -Student initiated actions-completed machines, draw pictures of machines
-Provocation: system obstacle course
-Field trip: Action Zone-4th June
-Guest speaker: Grade 3 kids who still have machines that they made last year
Action:
Design provocation system obstacle course (Steven & Chris)
Update unit planner (Chris, Ita, Annie)
STP reflections (all teachers who haven't completed them yet)
May 4th, 2014
Meeting cancelled due to Ms Patricia's absence
Apr 27th, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Chris Absent: Steven (Nathaniel Absent) Discussion: -Responsibility for the final planner-divided three ways;Annie, Chris, Ita
-STP reflections to complete the current unit
-Next unit HWOO: provocation needed
-Student Led Conference activities
Apr 20th, 2014
Unit planner up to date, meeting time used to align English language arts standards and to work on the upcoming concert.
Apr 13th, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris Discussion:
Specialist integration-ICT and Arabic activities to be added to the inquiry cycle
Date for HWOO on the 18th May
Integrated English plan completed, standards alignment document needed to then be added to MB
Portfolios to be prepared in time for Student Led Conference
Action:
Math integrated activities to be added into inquiry cycle (Steven)
STP unit planner-section 5 resources to be completed (Steven)
Next meeting; TBD
Spring break 26th Mar-13th Apr 2014
Mar 23rd, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Nona, Kate, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op) Discussion:
Results of pre-assessment-teachers choose between using Kidspiration and graphic organizer
Sharing of formative assessment graphic organizers-living and non living things
Standard alignment on Managebac-revision of HWEO standards
Unit related books distributed
Action:
Align english standards with summative rubric
Next meeting;
TBD
Mar 16th, 2014 Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Nona, Kate, Steven, Annie Absent: Chris (Hip op) Discussion:
Pre-assessment: possiblility of using Kidspiration to show understanding of the central idea or use this as an activity in the sorting out stage
Formative: characteristics of organisms-living and non-living separate circles first then venn diagram, types of habitat graphic organizer, foodchain flow chart.
Instructional writing built in to summative-how to make a diorama of a habitat
Action:
Create formative sheets (Steven/all)
Create summative assessment tool including writing element (all)
Next meeting:
TBD
Mar 9th, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Shivania, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op) Discussion: -Research for activities for STP carried over to this week
-One suggestion to make each classroom a different habitat; UAE:mountain, park, mangrove, desert, ocean or polar, underground, garden
-Formative assessments for HWEO: elements of a story, matching activity, ways of telling a story venn diagram
-Used left over time to discuss concert plans
Action:
-Add formative assessments onto HWEO planner (Sana)
-Research ideas fro STP unit (all)
-Create formative assessments for STP unit (all)
-Reflections for HWEO unit (all)
Next meeting:
-Finishing off HWEO and planning ahead for STP
Mar 2nd, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Shivania, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op) Discussion: -Next unit STP-review of reflections from last year, quite positive feedback
-Three weeks left in present unit, STP will begin Apr 13th
-Inquiry cycle carried forward, all teachers will research new activities to refresh the cycle
Feb 16th, 2014
All planning up to date, teachers completing reflections on HTWW
Feb 9th, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven Discussion:
Pre-assessment: graphic organizer divided into three columns to show stories they know, ways they are told and purposes of them.
Formative assessment to look at three lines of inquiry-elements of a story, how they connect to our own lives and the response that stories evoke-possible presentation to divide under the key concept headings of Form: what is it like (as in what are the elements?) Connection: how do stories connect to our own lives? Perspective: What are the different points of view of the audience-what emotions do they evoke?
Action:
Create graphic organizers for the pre and formative assessments (Grade 2 team)
Reflections for HTWW (all)
Next meeting:
Sharing formative graphic organizers and results of pre-assessment
Feb 2nd, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven Discussion:
-Read reflections from last year's HWEO unit-no recommendations for change
-Formative assessments need to be created and aligned with standards
-Organized Learner Profile assembly
-Possible student-initiated action
Action:
Update HWEO planner on Managebac (Sana)
Reflections for HTWW (all)
Next meeting:
Update all on HWEO unit planner
Jan 26th, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven Discussion:
-English writing assessment-report writing, standards incorporated into rubric
-Summative assessment tool-include relevant standards
-Build English and math activities in to the inquiry cycle
-Report writing: how weather has affected a landform
Action:
-Erosion experiment to be organized (by Chris)
-Sumamtive assessment rubric & graphic organizer (Steven)
Next meeting:
Looking ahead at HWEO
Jan 19th, 2014 Discussion: Meeting used to complete the following tasks;
-Reflections WWA Section 8 and WWAPT (all teachers)
-Summative assessment rubric and skills checklist to be added onto MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of the last two unit summative assessments (Steven)
-Resources section on WWA planner to be completed (Steven)
Jan 12th, 2014 School Holiday-Prophet Mohammed's Birthday
Jan 5th, 2014 Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven Discussion:
-Teacher questions created and provocation discussed and added to planner
-Possible student-initiated action
-Various resources discussed; Brain Pop, time lapse photography on youtube
Action:
-Reflections WWA Section 8 and WWAPT (all teachers)
-Summative assessment rubric and skills checklist to be added onto MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of the last two unit summative assessments (Steven)
-Resources section on WWA planner to be completed (Steven)
Next meeting:
-Summative assessment rubric for HTWW
Dec 8th, 2013 Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate, Steven Discussion: -Summative assessment rubric for WWAPT to include the relevant standards
-Skills rubric for WWAPT to relate to that unit's specific skills
-Possible student-initiated action section to be completed
-All dates on the roster to relate to the timings of the units
Action:
-Update WWAPT unit on MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of summative assessment from the last two units (all)
Nov 24th, 2013
Meeting cancelled due to Trish being absent and Arabic teachers practicing for National Day Nov 17th, 2013 Meeting cancelled due to absent teachers Nov 10th, 2013 Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate, Steven Discussion:
-Sharing of portfolios, avoid worksheet type pages-give the children a selection of their own written story pieces to choose from. Would it be possible for the portfolios to be carried up to Grade 3? Is it necessary to have the photograph page at the front?
-HTWW: revise the central idea and lines of inquiry to CI: Weather can change and influence landforms and society, LOI: Types of weather, Types of landforms, Weather's impact on landforms, Physical features on a map.
-Can we use social studies standards alongside writing standards in the assessment piece?
Action:
-Portfolio pieces-follow up on UAE and Arabic work (Trish)
-Add findings from pre-assessment onto the planner in section 3 and resources such as guest speaker Mr Mohammed, Mr Chris's photographs, field trip etc. (Adri)
-Investigate portfolio & standards questions (Trish)
-Teachers begin to research summative assessment ideas and learning activities for next unit.
Next meeting:
Continue with next unit planning Nov 3rd, 2013 Holiday: Hijra New Year Oct 27th, 2013 Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate Absent: Steven (Aaron absent-no cover) Discussion:
-Portfolio collection from specialists
-Reflections check
-Resources for WWAPT added to MB
Next meeting:
Formative assessments for WWAPT Oct 20th, 2013 Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate Discussion:
-Finishing off Who We Are planner
-Beginning Where we are in Place and Time unit and planner
-Descriptions for community displays
-How to add unit reflections on Managebac
Action:
-Complete WWA planner: student initiated action, all teacher names, resources (Kate)
-Begin to add all relevant information on WWAPT planner-assessments, inquiry cycle etc. (Adri)
-WWA reflections (all)
Oct 6th, 2013 Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris Absent: Kate (sick leave) Discussion:
-Reflection journals to be used Grade wide when possible-free writing
-Feedback from reading & Writing course from Ms Adri; encourage free writing with emphasis on ideas rather than spelling, punctuation etc, children send notes instead of talking to each other, children to correct the weekly spelling words in their writing
Action:
-Teachers reflection on WWA unit planner to be added this week, add initials after comments
-Displays-finish off and make sure there is a description to explain what the task/learning objective is
Next meeting:
-WWAPT unit collaborative planning
Sept 29th, 2013 Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish Absent: Kate, Chris (due to absent Arabic & UAE teachers) Discussion:
-Are specialist teachers attending weekly planning meetings as requested by them last year?
-If possible weekly planning meeting to be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday to free Sana for Arabic meetings
-Continuation of inquiry cycle: going further stage-children working on individual projects
Action:
Email specialist teachers informing them of time and location for grade planning meetings (Trish)
Next meeting:
Assessment and Powerschool Sept 22nd, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Adri, Annie, Christa, Chris, Ita, Sana, Trish Discussion: -Assessments for this unit, rubric for scoring created by Adri & Kate
-Only summative assessment to be recorded in PowerSchool
-Student Led Conference-3d community display on show
-Portfolio structure
Action:
Research student led conferences with video etc (Trish)
Next meeting:
Possible layout of student led conference Sept 15th 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Adri, Annie, Christa, Chris, Ita, Sana, Trish Discussion:
-Allocation of responsibility for updating each unit; WWA: Kate, WAPT: Adri, HWEO: Sana, HWW: Christa, HWOO: Steven, STP: Chris
-Update current UOI planner to include possible student initiated action & teaching activities for the attributes, attitudes and skills
-Discuss and record where the focus for learning will now be as a result of the pre-assessment task. Include on planner in section 3. Action:
Kate to update planner
Next meeting:
Focus on assessments, student generated rubric? To include formative assessments on PowerSchool?
Sept 8th 2013
Meeting cancelled as no cover for some classes due to insufficient Arabic teachers
NEW ACADEMIC YEAR
May 12, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Ideas for inquiry cycle of HTWW
- Developed summative task for HTWW
- Reviewed planner for STP: looking pretty complete - even some SST contributions included
Action:
- Continue to develop Inquiry cycle for HTWW
Next Meeting:
- Team to meet independently and work on final visit preparation
April 29, 2013 *Meeting held without Glenn due to exec meeting clash
April 22, 2013
*Meeting with IB Consultant: Peggy Bumanis
April 16, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Central idea for upcoming HTWW unit: this is a new unit and so the team wanted the CI and LOI to be relatively set before Peggy's meeting next week
Action:
- Continue to develop and share ideas regarding focus of HTWW unit
April 14, 2013 *Meeting led by team (Glenn at exec meeting)
March 10, 2013 *Meeting led by team (Glenn at exec meeting)
March 3, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Focus areas for HTWW
Action:
- Continue to develop tuning in, finding out and assessment tasks for HTWW
Next Meeting:
- Review and continue
February 10, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Completion of reflection section for HTWW
- Additional (literacy?) activities for HWEO
- Placement of unit resources and assessment tools into appropriate folders
- Progress with regards to development of assessment tools for HWEO
February 3, 2013 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Assessment tools: have been assigned to teachers for development
- Continued to develop inquiry cycle
Action:
- Develop assessment tools (G2 - various)
- Place tools in folder (as above)
- Copy literacy planning (for story structure) across to planner (Kate)
- Reflection sections (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Reflection section of HTWW?
January 27, 2012 Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- HWEO update: developed assessment tasks for section 3
- Summative: developed
- Trans skills: reviewed with the overview document
- LP assembly skit: discussed idea of students taking over and developing ideas for the attributes - stick to caring for tomorrow though..
Action:
- Delegate and develop assessment tools (G2 team)
- Speak with Aaron re. assessment task (Kate)
- Reflection section for HTWW (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress..
January 20, 2013 Present: Steven Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- CI for HWEO: Changed to Stories are told in different ways and for different purposes
- Developed assessment tasks for proposed (literacy outcomes)
- Discussed importance of having assessment task/tools ready to go
- Discussed possibilities that the new CI could open up: different ways of telling stories and different purposes
Action:
- Develop assessment tools for proposed tasks (G2 team)
- Re-look at ELA outcomes with a view to finding more (possibly S+L) outcfome that align witht he unit (G2 team)
- Populate inquiry cycle (G2 team)
- Update CI on POI (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Look at and discuss developed assessment tasks
- Continue to populate inquiry cycle
January 13, 2013 Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Christine, Steven, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Unit progress with HTWW: going along well. Discussed which assessments had been completed, and the need for the assessment tools to be placed intot he assessment tools folder
- Timeline for HWEO: extended HTWW for one week. Discussed keeping the assessment tasks to a minimum due to time being taken for concert
Action:
- Continue to look at CI so as to make it more 'concrete (All)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
January 6, 2012 *Team meeting held independently (Glenn on leave)
December 09, 2012 Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Steven, Trish, Sanaa, Glenn (Apologies: Christine) Discussion:
- Development of assessment tools for proposed outcomes. Delegated task developemnt (as indicated on pllanner)
- Discussed proposals (colored bits)
- SST contributions: still difficult to know what's happening outside of the classroom
- Looked at ICT webpage: this may help..
- UAE follow up: Nabeilah is happy to help witht he assessment of those outcomes but needs some guidance
Action:
- Development of assessment tools for each proposed outcome/assessment task (various as indicated on planner)
- Speak with Nathan/Nabeilah/PE teachers (Kate)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
November 25, 2012 Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Christine, Steven, Trish, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Next unit: HTWW (not what was on the POI sequence doc)
- Lines of inquiry changed to be more closely aligned with outcomes
- Reviewed progress with planner for HTWW: reorganized formatting of assessment tasks in section 3 (so as to retain consistency with other grades)
- Chose transdisciplinary skills: explained rationale for including them in this stage of the planner and how (some of them) should be referenced in the comments section of Q2 reports
Action:
- Update POI (PDF and public display) with revised HTWW LOI (Glenn)
- Develop assessment tools (G2 team)
- Flesh out task for LP activities (Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Development of assessment tools?
November 20, 2012 Present: Kate, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Steven, Sanaa, Maria, Glenn Discussion: *Meeting with IB Consultant regarding progress since last visit, challenges, and most urgent needs
November 11, 2012 Present: Kate, Annie, Adri, Christine, Josephine, Trish, Steven, Glenn Discussion:
- Continued to develop ideas for WWAPT
November 4, 2012 Present: Kate, Annie, Adri, Christine, Josephine, Trish, Steven, Glenn Discussion:
- Little follow up from SSTs post integration carousel #1
- Specialist documenting on planners of major focus?
- Where be d planner at?
- Outcomes for WWAPT had not been developed in section 3 of the planner
- Worked on the development of aligned assessment tasks for unit #2
- ELA component: poetry writing (limericks!;)
- Summative task: Combine timeline. Discussed how this could be organized so that it truly assesses student understanding iof the CI
Action:
- Touch up the planner (Glenn)
- Communicate concern #1 with Aaron (Glenn)
- Further develop summative task (G2 team)
- Check planner #3 and ensure that outcomes are documented with aligned assessment tasks (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with the above
October 7, 2012 Present: Glenn, Trish Discussion:
- Continued to align assessment tasks with proposed outcomes in section 3 of planner
- Planning that had to be modified to accomodate developmental level of students
- How to document the above in the planner: in reflection section
- Starting with all proposed outcomes (S/SS and ELA) and developing assessment taks for all right from the beginning
Action:
- Start pre-planning for unit #2: start with proposed outcomes (G2 team)
- Complete reflections for unit #1 (G2 team)
- Prepare planner (Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Review planner progress (units 1 and 2)
- Decide what to do next for unit #2 (assessment tasks etc.)
September 30, 2012 Present: Worked independently due to G2 field trips Discussion:
- Transfer proposed assessment tasks into section 3 of the planner and align with relevant evidence outcomes
- Meet to look at tidying up homework page
Action:
- Aligned assessments and tasks in section 3 (Glenn and Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
September 23, 2012 *No meeting due to AdvancEd (all day) session
September 16, 2012 Present: Kate, Annie, Trish, Steven, Christine, Adri, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn Discussion:
- Inquiry cycle progress: team going well. Discussed positive aspects of documenting the cycle (reflective tool)
- Hand written displays are okay: modelling what we are asking students to produce
- Look at manageable ways to link tasks to assessments/evidence outcomes on the planner
- Back to School plans: Unit information on the G2 web page
- PYP Info. session to be held at around the same time as the Q1 report
- K drive: try not to be saving updated documents there as we are in the process of migrating data to new directory
- Next unit ideas: Kate
Action:
- Transfer proposed assessment tasks into section 3 of the planner and align with relevant evidence outcomes (Trish and Glenn)
- Meet to look at tidying up homework page (Steven and Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Develop assessment taks that align with evidence outcomes
September 9, 2012 Present: Annie, Trish, Steven, Christine, Adri, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn (Apologies: Kate) Discussion:
- Please bring MTPYPH to all meetings..
- Inquiry cycle PD: G2 to share their progress at an upcoming PD session
- Need more copies of Classroom Connections..
- Single subject integration: ICT needs work
- Display boards: where are they?
- Slow start: may students not yet displaying skills needed for what has been planned. Much setting up and reinforcement of routines. Many students not able to write much at all. Central Idea taking time to unpack.
- Progress with inquiry cycle: should they display each stage? Glenn: might be nice to have somethingt o document the journey/be able to make reference to. Space a consideration..
- Planning documentation: planner becoming bigger and more complex (now with included stages of inquiry cycle), some finding it not user friendly. Glenn: it's a requirement, let's continiue to plan, do and review and see what improvements we can make.
- Formative and summative assessment tasks: the evidence ouotcomes covered should be embedded in tha planner - and (ideally) linked to tasks
Action:
- Look at manageable ways to link tasks to assessments/evidence outcomes on the planner (Glenn/Trish)
- Continue to unpack (all)
Next Meeting:
- Revisit ways to embed EO within planner
- Next unit ideas..
June 18, 2012 Present: Kate, Mandala, Glenn Discussion:
- Continued to refine POI: especially with regards to G2/G3 overlap (in WWA)
Action:
- Share development with teams and get back to me (Kate and Mandala)
June 14, 2012 Present: Kate, Trish, Adri, Annie, Christine, Sanaa, Steven, Annie, Glenn Discussion:
- Progress on POI standards alignment since last meeting
- Refinement of lines of inquiry
- Possibility of changing HWEO to accomodate KG1: decision was made that Glenn go back to KG1 with alternatives as this unit fits better with G2 ELA standards
- Refinement of LOI and tweaking of CI
- HWEO left for the moment until we are clear with how to proceed: if ok, work on refining existing LOI
Action:
- Discuss alternatives with KG1 (Glenn)
- Continue to plot out assessment and provocation ideas (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Monday?
June 3, 2012 Present: Kate, Trish, Adri, Annie, Christine, Sanaa, Steven, Glenn Discussion:
- Report comments
- Progress with POI
- What's next: assessments
Action:
- Propose summative and formative assessment tasks for each unit (G2 team)
- Refine Lines of Inquiry so that they are focused on building towards the above (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress of above
- Discuss when a Grade Level Matrix shouold be developed (now of in September?)
May 27, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 20, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 13, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 6, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Standards/unit alignment
- Social science standards - we can 'prioritize' ones that are/not being taught by UAE
- STP: broaden central idea to focus on habitats and organisms
- HTWW: difficult to create focus - cities doesn't work?
Action:
- Continue to develop unit ideas and central ideas for G2 POI 2012
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 6, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Annie, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Trish's work with the Inquiry Cycle
- The development of the planner (for What's the Weather!)
- Unit and reflection progress
- Planning documents - everyone 'staying on the same page'
- G2 Unit overhaul - looked at organizing themes that need to have units changed, discussed timeline and ways that we can achieve this
Action:
- UAE teachers to go through sSocial Science standards and highlight which evidence outcomes they cover in UAE (UAE teachers)
- Make folders on the K for sample POIs and Grade level POIs (Glenn)
- Contact Sanaa regarding Social Science standards/alignment (Glenn)
- Email Nathan re. unit integration (Trish?)
- Finish reflection section of Field to table (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with G2 POI
- Look at planner development
April 15, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Trish, Steven, Glenn Discussion: - G2 unit review in relation to science and social studies standards
- Team cut and pasted evidence outcomes from the above standards docs to see where they are (and where they are not) aligned
- Concern communicated about impending new standards: when they are coming out and how this will affect the process we are currently going through: science and social studies need to be embedded in our POI for our upcoming verification visit - this is an IB requirement. The process will take time and while we have no idea when the 'new' standards will arrive, we have to get organized with what we have
- Some key science content areas not covered?
- Team planning session (last wekk) went really well
- G2 classroom visits: difficult this wee due to assessments and concerts
Action:
- Transfer info from today onto electronic format (Glenn)
- Invite Glenn to class if/when PYP session taking place (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review unit progress
- Review embedded standards document
March 19, 2012 Present: Trish, Kate, Annie, Christine, Steven, Glenn (Apologies: Sanaa and Adri - no PE) Discussion: - Weather unit - CI and LOI in relation to the science and social studies standards - Impact - can it be a concept? - Structure of central ideas: two concepts and an active verb - Where to put standards (try section 2: what do we want to learn)
- Dissection of standards and discussion of what fits well
- Summative task
Action:
- Put ideas (mods) onto planner (Glenn)
- Think of summative task and learning engagements that relate to the lines of inquiry (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Finalize summative and section 4 activities
Action:
- Review CI and LOI for Weather unit (G2 team)
- Review planner and modify section 4 (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review CI and LOI in relation to science and social studies standards (Trish's room)
March 4, 2012 * G2 teachers met and planned independently
February 26, 2012 Present: Kate, Trish, Glenn Discussion:
- Planners need to be completed - G2 team is doing well with this
- Areas that still need to be completed
- Imagination unit - lesson learned
- Healthy body - many science standards but none of the relate to standards
- What to do with planners that didn't really cover standards (as they should have)
- Standards - where to put them on the planner
- Focus - team must maintain a consistent approach to implementing the unit
Action:
- Look at Central Idea and Lines of inquiry modifications for Field to Table unit (G2 Team)
- Complete reflection sections for RRR and imagination (G2 team)
- Send rubrics/assessment tools to Glenn (Kate)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Ideas for assessment tasks for FTT unit
- Review Central idea and Lines of Inquiry
February 19, 2012 Present: Trish, Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Kaye, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Pre-assessment v. Tuning In activities: best to frame the activity so that you have something (beyond a conversation) that indicates what students know
- Central idea
- 2nd and 3rd line of inquiry: some overlap? How should we view these?
- Focus should really come from the organizing theme descriptors, in this case: An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities
- 2 categories of foods for the 3rd line of inquiry: Natural and Processed. Explore the different stages of each of these
Action:
- Transdisciplinary skills (Glenn - Trish to check)
- Summative rubric (Trish and Adri)
Next Meeting:
- Review planner and rubric
- Look at possibility of developing a timeline?
February 12, 2012 *Meeting cancelled due to Glenn and Christine being at workshops in Dubai
February 5, 2012 (x2 meetings) Present: Trish, Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Kaye, Sana, Glenn Discussion:
- Time: very difficult to get planner obligations completed when there are so many other things to do. Planner ends up being down on the list of priorities when there are so many other things taking up time. Taking care of classes takes no. 1 priority, but many other things getting in the way of team being able to keep up with PYP requirements
- Challenges with regards to planning collaboratively
- Imagination concert: fantastic idea and Action component of unit but not sure how to proceed
- Meeting/PD time not effective use of teacher time: Tuesday time could be organized much better - ensuring that teams have time to plan collaboratively should be a priority, not an add on
- Ways that team can organize themselves to plan collaboratively without being assigned the time (as discussed at last Tuesday's meeting)
- Possible ways that team can delegate (from within) a teacher to take on responsibility of maintinaing planner, and ensuring that everyone remains on the same page (at least fromt he outset)
- Next unit: hasn't been done before so should give team a good opportunity to pre-plan, follow through with proposed action action and plan collaboratively
- Try not to bite off more than we can chew: possibly a symptom of teachers (essentially) planning in isloation
- Many/most activities related only to the first line of inquiry and in that were very thematic, as opposed to really focusing in on the lines of inquiry or the central idea
Action:
- Discuss Tuesday meeting/PD time frustrations with John (Glenn)
- Discuss how Imagination concert: Continue with original plan? Classes do it seperately? Look at the possibility of holding action (fund raising component) over until one of the next units (G2 team)
- Start to fill in section 4 activities as generated in today's second meeting (Glenn)
- Write down any other activities that may be happening/have happened that relate tot he central idea or the lines of inquiry (especially the second one) and send them to Glenn so that he can add them to the planner (G2 team)
- Review central idea and lines of inquiry for Field to Table unit (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with planner
- Discuss ways to finish up unit and preparation needed to successfully pre-plan for next
January 29, 2012 *Glenn absent
January 22, 2012 *Meeting cancelled due to teacher absences and preparation for reports
January 15, 2012 Present: Kate, Christine, Annie, Kaye, Trish, Glenn (Adri and Sana - no cover) Discussion:
- Ideas for Pure Imagination unit
- Review of focus for PI unit
- Review and modificvation of central idea: Imagination is a powerful tool for thinking, creating and expressing ourselves
- Discussion about focus of CI: visual arts and creative problem solving
- Summative assessment task: world of wearable art andana, Adri) - Magic paintbrush materials preparation (?) - Look at speaking and listening standards creative solutions task?
- Collaborative planning strategies
Action:
- Find some good BP tech (creative thinking) challenges, be ready to share next meeting (Christine)
- Talk with Brenda regarding WOWA component (S(G2 team)
Next Meeting: - Review of reflection sections - where are we at? - Sharing of activity ideas for Pure Imagination unit
January 8, 2011
Present: Annie, Adri, Kate, Trish, Kaye, Sana, Glenn (Christine off sick) Discussion:
- Current unit progress: finishing off assessments for RRR unit
- How standards were difficult to fit into this unit: social science (civics) was the one most applicable to the central idea
- Revision of the summative assessment task (to align it with both the central idea and the social science evidence outcome)
- Replace the word 'changes' to 'impacts' (in the central idea)
- Pure Imagination central idea and lines of inquiry review: do we like them/interpret them in the same way?
- Thematic v. Inquiry-based approaches to teaching units
Action:
- Send SA rubric and task outline to Glenn (Adri)
- Update planner (Glenn)
- Plan meeting outlines for Pure Imagination unit (G2 team)
- Develop activity ideas for Pure Imagination unit and be ready to share at next week's meeting (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Sharing of activity ideas for Pure imagination unit
November 27, 2011
Sunday 20th November Week 1
Sunday 27th November Week 2
Sunday 4th December Week 3
Sunday 11th December Week 4
Meeting roles and responsibilities
Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
Curriculum area roles SCIENCE: Christine MATH: Kate ENGLISH: Annie, Kaye, Sana PYP: Trish, Adri SOCIAL STUDIES: Scribe: : Adri
Plan summative assessment task/s.
Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies)
Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Trip? Ronald Mc Donald. Feedback from Christine, follow up with Nadia Scribe Christine
Scribe Sana
Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Plan summative assessment task/s.
Curriculum area teams to discuss assessment links to PYP. (English)
Specialist integration with this unit and imagination unit.
Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Plan summative assessment task/s.
Curriculum area teams to discuss assessment links to PYP. (English)
Specialist integration with this unit and imagination unit.
Looking forward to next unit. Imagination. Check central idea; make sure new UOI leaders are on track and ready to take the reins! Scribe Kaye
November 20, 2011
- Next unit (responsibilities) overview:
Sunday 20th November Week 1
Sunday 27th November Week 2
Sunday 4th December Week 3
Sunday 11th December Week 4
Meeting roles and responsibilities
Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
Curriculum area roles SCIENCE: Christine MATH: Kate ENGLISH: Annie (phonics), PYP: Trish SOCIAL STUDIES: Scribe: : Adri
Plan summative assessment task/s.
Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies)
Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Trip? Ronald Mc Donald. Feedback from Christine, follow up with Nadia Scribe Christine
Scribe Sana
Looking forward to next unit. Imagination. Check central idea; make sure new UOI leaders are on track and ready to take the reins! Scribe Kaye
Discussion points:
1.Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
2. Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
3. What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
4. Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
November 13 Discussion:
- Progress with Changing Times and plans on how to wrap it up
- Started to complete the reflection section of Changing Times
- Responsibilities of specialist teachers and ways that they can collaborate more effectively with Grade level teams: who is responsible to maintain communication; where is (specialist) planning stored; who can view it..
- Parent education: how we need to improve in this area
Action:
- Complete reflection sections for Changing Times unit (G2 team)
- Organize reflection comments (from today) into appropriate sections on planner (Glenn)
Next meeting:
- Finish reflection section for Changing Times and continue with planning for RRR
November 6 As documentation for our upcoming IB visit is due this Wednesday it was decided that we would focus on completing the reflection section of Unit 1 during this week's meeting
- Breifly covered where we are at with regards to current unit
- Reflection section for 'The amazing human body': group walk through of the different reflection sections of the planner, all teachers contributed their thoughts and ideas which were noted in the relevant sections
- Discussion of how to complete the planner from here: using different colours cover the parts that we didn't get done today
October 30 Discussion:
- Ways to ensure that our meetings are efficient and productive: meeting items and follow up sent by Glenn, fllow up notes to be published on the G2 wiki page, team to take care of any preparation needed before arriving at the meeting, Team to look at taking more control over the actual development of the Unit Planner (try for next unit).
- Resources: challenges faced in this unit by the lack of them - various notes added to reflection section of Cultures unit
- Cultures unit to be extended for one more week - RRR to be shortened accordingly
- Reflection section of Unit 1: how this can be managed given competing priorities
- Looked at planner for Reduce, Re-use Recycle: changed one line of inquiry to accomodate 'responsibility' focus better
Action:
- Write to Masdar city rep requesting info about possible visit (Glenn)
- Review RRR planner and organize activities according to key concepts (Glenn)
- Fill out reflection section of Human Body planner (G2 team)
Next Week:
- Discuss unit progress
- Form game plan for next UOI (RRR)
Mar 8th, 2015
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Veronica, Trish, Ita, Emily, Gill Absent: Eibhlin
Location: Sarah's room
Discussion:
Recap of the summative assessment for HWEO
Looking ahead at the next unit-STP
Summative assessment will be strengthened by adding a graphic organizer for students to explain their understanding of the concepts from the central idea and lines of inquiry
Formative assessments review in next meeting
Provocation: students will walk around the outside of the school and identify living and non living things-they may collect them in jars or photograph with ipads
Action:
Create graphic organizer for summative assessment (Sarah & Emily)
Locate all assessments and rubrics from last year (Trish)
Next meeting:
Location: Veronica's room
Mar 1st, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 22nd, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 15th, 2015
(Specialists absent)
Feb 8th, 2015
Sarah-no specialist cover and requested time for teachers to work on reflections for previous unit
Feb 1st, 2015
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Veronica, Trish, Ita Absent: Emily, Eibhlin, Gill (Asma & Rashid absent)
Location: Gill's room
Discussion:
Formative assessment tasks:
Line 1: ways of telling stories: graphic organizer on MB
Line 2: Elements of a story: story plan on MB
Line 3: Responses that stories evoke: ideas could be for students to listen to a story and draw/write their responses (how it makes them feel, images that they have in their minds etc.)at different stages of the story
Summative assessment rubric will need to be adjusted slightly to align with new assessment policy
Learning experience ideas: to create stations such as a role-play are with dress up clothes, a creative area with puppets, plasticene to model characters, construction are to build houses from large cardboard boxes, story centre with fairy tale books, listening centre-cd player-students listen to stories/songs-identify elements of story, record their responses, write the purpose of the story etc.
Parents could also be invited in to read a story aloud to the class, different language stories could also be shared and translated in parts.
Action:
Add tasks for formative assessments on WWA (Eibhlin & Emily)
Revise summative assessment rubric (Sarah)
Create graphic organiser for formative 3 & pre-assessment (G2 team)
HTWW reflections- (all)
Next meeting:
Location: Gill's room
Jan 25th, 2015
Meeting cancelled: We’re needing to cancel today’s meeting due to Asma being out. For some of us this is our only planning lesson and as she is also out tomorrow.
Jan 18th, 2015
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Emily's room
Complete tasks for formative and summative assessments on HTWW
Procedural writing rubric to be shared.
HWEO concert 12th Mar
Integrating specialists for HWEO: Islamic, Arabic, Music
Whole team read through reflections-great ICT activities using Kidspiration & Kidpix-students create their own books
Formative tasks & summative assessment rubric to be sourced from archives
Action:
Formative tasks & summative assessment rubric sourced (Ita/Trish)
Complete tasks for HTWW planner (Emily/Eibhlin)
Research inquiry based activities for planning on Tuesday (all)
Next meeting: Location: Gill's room
Jan 11th, 2015
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Ita Absent: Trish
Location: Sarah's room
Dec 18th-Jan 11th Winter Holiday
Dec 7th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Sarah's room
Discussion:
Provocation details need to be added to unit planner
Reflections for WWAPT
CI: People create solutions to changing landforms-need to source summative assessment rubric from last and align standards
This week pre-assessment and provocation-flow chart and panagea
Action:
Reflections WWAPT (all)
Source SA rubric (Ita)
Next meeting:
Location: Emily's room
Nov 23rd, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Veronica's room
Discussion:
-HTWW: Formative assessments: line 1: graphic organizer to explain what are the factors that change landforms, line 2: flipbook to show the features of a solution, line 3: map with a grid-children to identify the landforms within the coordinates
Provocation: jigsaw of the world map to be placed together and inspire a discussion about change
ICT: project to create a poster to relate information about landforms
-Inspire the students to create service based action-teacher can guide/model until the students understand the concept
Action:
-Update unit planner with formative assessments (Emily & Eibhlin)
-Reflections on WWAPT (all)
Next meeting:
Location: Sarah's room
Nov 16th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Jessica's room
Discussion:
Nov 9th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Veronica's room
Discussion:
-Weebly unit page, template to inform parents of unit information,the assessment and how they can support their child's learning (PM)
-Information page on action also created and can be added to the Weebly (SG)
-Summative assessment rubric-need to find out if score will be converted to percentage, then scale or if rubric must form the scale to begin with
Meeting adjourned early as G2 are up to date on all other unit related matters. They spent the remaining time planing.
Action:
Add SA rubric to Managebac (Sarah)
Begin research on HWEO unit
Next meeting: Location: Jessica's room
Nov 2nd, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish Absent: Ita
Location: Emily's room
Discussion:
-Field trips will be on the 19th & 20th November-25 dirhams, forms to be returned by Nov 12th
-Managebac support have added a test task so the task bar should be working now
-UOI tab on Weebly to provide unit information to parents: central idea, lines of inquiry, a description of activities, summative assessment, rubric and ways that parents can support at home
-Action: it would be an idea to email parents/post onto weebly explaining the concept of Action in the PYP so then they could inform you if their child takes unit related action when not in school
-Displays: unit board should display all unit related information; LP attributes, attitudes, skills, concepts etc. Suggestion to dis[play evidence of student work from each inquiry stage aropund the board/around the classroom-include photographs and samples of student work
-Grading: remains the same for quarter 1 with an explanation to parents of how the percentage translates to a point on the 1-4 scale
-Quarter 2: all formatives except spelling and EDM A will be scored from 1-4 in the gradebook
Next meeting:
Location: Sarah's Room
Oct 26th, 2014
Meeting time used to complete reflections on WWA unit.
Oct 19th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Gill's room
Discussion:
Formative assessments for WWAPT unit-lines of inquiry;
1.How people lived in the past-skill: formulating questions, field trip to the Heritage Village, making of flip book based on the following elements; transport, food, school, homes, toys and games-peer assessed
2.Beliefs and traditions that are valued today-Ms Nabeilah to assess in UAE class
3.Historical events that have impacted on society-Group timeline project-skills: adapting group roles, cooperating,peer assessed
-Integrated math based on the concept of time: ordering four digit numbers-dates of historical events, analogue clocks-increments of 5 and 1 minutes
Field trip: ideally organized for week 2-finding out stage when the children can create a list of questions and find out information
Skills aligned to the summative assessment task: analyzing, organizing data,
Action:
Complete reflections on WWA (all)
Find out about math standards for time increments (Trish)
Organize field trip (Ita)
Next meeting:
Location: Emily's room
Oct 12th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish Absent: Ita
Location: Roseanne's room
Discussion:
New weekly planning template with reflections to begin next week
Tuesday math is to be either math through inquiry, inquiry through math or EDM games practice
WWAPT unit-conceptual understanding of history-teddy bear analogy
Focus on research skills: formulating questions and communication skills: listening and speaking-oral stories about the past
Third formative assessment to be based on life in the past-line of inquiry
Possible guest speaker-fisherman from the heritage village
Key concepts: try to use to explore artifacts from the past-what is it like? How does it work? etc.
Field trip to the Heritage Village
Action:
Contact guest speaker (Trish)
Reflections on WWA unit (all)
Next meeting; Location Gill's room
Standards alignment document
Oct 5th: Eid Holiday
Sept 28th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Veronica's room
Discussion:
Summative assessment readiness-rubric to be tweaked slightly to omit section 4 about the role play
Taking action stage-encourage whole group action-teacher facilitates the discussion but the children come up with the idea
Formative assessments: role play of conflict resolution and responsibilities of students and other community members
math performance task: tally chart on community places, activity: post it bar graph on community activities
Action:
Update planner with formative assessments, math performance task (Veronica/Jessica)
Begin unit reflections (all)
Begin research for WWAPT unit (all)
Next meeting: Location: Roseanne's room
Looking ahead-WWAPT
Sept 21st, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill, Trish, Ita
Location: Ita's room
Discussion:
Math integration: money, bar graphs of occupations, 2d skyline of city communities-grade team to decide what they are including and edit planner
Language integrations to be included in inquiry cycle
ICT integrations to be discussed, obsolete lessons to be deleted from planner-teacher volunteer who will be responsible for ICT in the grade-Veronica
Reading of portfolio essential agreement and discussion
Begin collection of boxes for 3d community project
Action:
-Update unit planner with summative assessment description, updated learning activities including math, language and ICT integrations, teacher questions (Veronica/Jessica)
-Field trip-discuss this with Aaron (Ita)
-Locate last year's summative rubric (Ita)
-Review "Going Further" activities (all)
Next meeting: Location: Veronica's room
Winding up unit-everything ready for summative
Looking ahead-reflections of WWAPT
Sept 14th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill,Trish Absent: Ita
Location: Jessica's room
Discussion:
-Unit recording chart (MB) completed
-Definition and purpose of a provocation explained
-Necessity and benefit of student reflections
-Parent occupations' survey on the G2 weebly-results will go to Sarah who will then distribute them
School community project to begin in the third week
ICT-Gill planning for this subject so far, Mandala will discuss ideas at carousel
Field trip: to police and fire station only-Post Office couldn't accommodate all ten classes
Extra activities added to tuning in and finding out stages
Action:
Research ideas for formative assessments (all)
Next meeting: Ita's room
Sept 7th, 2014
Present: Sarah, Ita, Roseanne, Jessica, Emily, Veronica, Eibhlinn, Gill,Trish
Location: Eibhlinn's room
Discussion:
-Unit records chart; distribution of units to be recorded on MB
-Essential agreements for meetings;
Time efficiency-meetings to begin and end on time,
Stay on topic
One voice, no side conversations, show respect by listening to others without interrupting or speaking over them
Contribute and be involved
-Reading over last year's unit reflections-the following notes were made; guest speakers to be invited in, ICT safety standards could be covered-they fit well with this unit, student jobs could be given to the class so that they feel a part of their class community.
-On reflection a provocation could be to pretend that the canteen staff have to go home-so no lunch/overflowing bin etc. -realize how dependent we are on everyone in our school community for it to function
Action:
-Complete unit recording on MB rota (all)
Next meeting:
-Review formative assessments
May 25th, 2014
No school today: Isra' Wal Miraj Holiday
May 18th, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris
Discussion:
-Reflections to be completed
May 11th, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris
Discussion:
-Student initiated actions-completed machines, draw pictures of machines
-Provocation: system obstacle course
-Field trip: Action Zone-4th June
-Guest speaker: Grade 3 kids who still have machines that they made last year
Action:
Design provocation system obstacle course (Steven & Chris)
Update unit planner (Chris, Ita, Annie)
STP reflections (all teachers who haven't completed them yet)
May 4th, 2014
Meeting cancelled due to Ms Patricia's absence
Apr 27th, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Chris Absent: Steven (Nathaniel Absent)
Discussion:
-Responsibility for the final planner-divided three ways;Annie, Chris, Ita
-STP reflections to complete the current unit
-Next unit HWOO: provocation needed
-Student Led Conference activities
Action:
-Complete STP reflections
-Update HWOO unit planner (Chris, Annie, Ita)
Next meeting:
Looking ahead at the new unit
Apr 20th, 2014
Unit planner up to date, meeting time used to align English language arts standards and to work on the upcoming concert.
Apr 13th, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Annie, Kate, Steven, Chris
Discussion:
Specialist integration-ICT and Arabic activities to be added to the inquiry cycle
Date for HWOO on the 18th May
Integrated English plan completed, standards alignment document needed to then be added to MB
Portfolios to be prepared in time for Student Led Conference
Action:
Math integrated activities to be added into inquiry cycle (Steven)
STP unit planner-section 5 resources to be completed (Steven)
Next meeting;
TBD
Spring break 26th Mar-13th Apr 2014
Mar 23rd, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Nona, Kate, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op)
Discussion:
Results of pre-assessment-teachers choose between using Kidspiration and graphic organizer
Sharing of formative assessment graphic organizers-living and non living things
Standard alignment on Managebac-revision of HWEO standards
Unit related books distributed
Action:
Align english standards with summative rubric
Next meeting;
TBD
Mar 16th, 2014
Present: Adri, Ita, Sana, Trish, Nona, Kate, Steven, Annie Absent: Chris (Hip op)
Discussion:
Pre-assessment: possiblility of using Kidspiration to show understanding of the central idea or use this as an activity in the sorting out stage
Formative: characteristics of organisms-living and non-living separate circles first then venn diagram, types of habitat graphic organizer, foodchain flow chart.
Instructional writing built in to summative-how to make a diorama of a habitat
Action:
Create formative sheets (Steven/all)
Create summative assessment tool including writing element (all)
Next meeting:
TBD
Mar 9th, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Shivania, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op)
Discussion:
-Research for activities for STP carried over to this week
-One suggestion to make each classroom a different habitat; UAE:mountain, park, mangrove, desert, ocean or polar, underground, garden
-Formative assessments for HWEO: elements of a story, matching activity, ways of telling a story venn diagram
-Used left over time to discuss concert plans
Action:
-Add formative assessments onto HWEO planner (Sana)
-Research ideas fro STP unit (all)
-Create formative assessments for STP unit (all)
-Reflections for HWEO unit (all)
Next meeting:
-Finishing off HWEO and planning ahead for STP
Mar 2nd, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Shivania, Steven Absent: Chris (Hip op)
Discussion:
-Next unit STP-review of reflections from last year, quite positive feedback
-Three weeks left in present unit, STP will begin Apr 13th
-Inquiry cycle carried forward, all teachers will research new activities to refresh the cycle
Feb 16th, 2014
All planning up to date, teachers completing reflections on HTWW
Feb 9th, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven
Discussion:
Pre-assessment: graphic organizer divided into three columns to show stories they know, ways they are told and purposes of them.
Formative assessment to look at three lines of inquiry-elements of a story, how they connect to our own lives and the response that stories evoke-possible presentation to divide under the key concept headings of
Form: what is it like (as in what are the elements?)
Connection: how do stories connect to our own lives?
Perspective: What are the different points of view of the audience-what emotions do they evoke?
Action:
Create graphic organizers for the pre and formative assessments (Grade 2 team)
Reflections for HTWW (all)
Next meeting:
Sharing formative graphic organizers and results of pre-assessment
Feb 2nd, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven
Discussion:
-Read reflections from last year's HWEO unit-no recommendations for change
-Formative assessments need to be created and aligned with standards
-Organized Learner Profile assembly
-Possible student-initiated action
Action:
Update HWEO planner on Managebac (Sana)
Reflections for HTWW (all)
Next meeting:
Update all on HWEO unit planner
Jan 26th, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven
Discussion:
-English writing assessment-report writing, standards incorporated into rubric
-Summative assessment tool-include relevant standards
-Build English and math activities in to the inquiry cycle
-Report writing: how weather has affected a landform
Action:
-Erosion experiment to be organized (by Chris)
-Sumamtive assessment rubric & graphic organizer (Steven)
Next meeting:
Looking ahead at HWEO
Jan 19th, 2014
Discussion:
Meeting used to complete the following tasks;
-Reflections WWA Section 8 and WWAPT (all teachers)
-Summative assessment rubric and skills checklist to be added onto MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of the last two unit summative assessments (Steven)
-Resources section on WWA planner to be completed (Steven)
Jan 12th, 2014
School Holiday-Prophet Mohammed's Birthday
Jan 5th, 2014
Present: Adri, Annie, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Shivania, Steven
Discussion:
-Teacher questions created and provocation discussed and added to planner
-Possible student-initiated action
-Various resources discussed; Brain Pop, time lapse photography on youtube
Action:
-Reflections WWA Section 8 and WWAPT (all teachers)
-Summative assessment rubric and skills checklist to be added onto MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of the last two unit summative assessments (Steven)
-Resources section on WWA planner to be completed (Steven)
Next meeting:
-Summative assessment rubric for HTWW
Dec 8th, 2013
Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate, Steven
Discussion:
-Summative assessment rubric for WWAPT to include the relevant standards
-Skills rubric for WWAPT to relate to that unit's specific skills
-Possible student-initiated action section to be completed
-All dates on the roster to relate to the timings of the units
Action:
-Update WWAPT unit on MB (Adri)
-Exemplars of summative assessment from the last two units (all)
Nov 24th, 2013
Meeting cancelled due to Trish being absent and Arabic teachers practicing for National Day
Nov 17th, 2013
Meeting cancelled due to absent teachers
Nov 10th, 2013
Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate, Steven
Discussion:
-Sharing of portfolios, avoid worksheet type pages-give the children a selection of their own written story pieces to choose from. Would it be possible for the portfolios to be carried up to Grade 3? Is it necessary to have the photograph page at the front?
-HTWW: revise the central idea and lines of inquiry to CI: Weather can change and influence landforms and society, LOI: Types of weather, Types of landforms, Weather's impact on landforms, Physical features on a map.
-Can we use social studies standards alongside writing standards in the assessment piece?
Action:
-Portfolio pieces-follow up on UAE and Arabic work (Trish)
-Add findings from pre-assessment onto the planner in section 3 and resources such as guest speaker Mr Mohammed, Mr Chris's photographs, field trip etc. (Adri)
-Investigate portfolio & standards questions (Trish)
-Teachers begin to research summative assessment ideas and learning activities for next unit.
Next meeting:
Continue with next unit planning
Nov 3rd, 2013
Holiday: Hijra New Year
Oct 27th, 2013
Present: Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate Absent: Steven (Aaron absent-no cover)
Discussion:
-Portfolio collection from specialists
-Reflections check
-Resources for WWAPT added to MB
Next meeting:
Formative assessments for WWAPT
Oct 20th, 2013
Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris, Kate
Discussion:
-Finishing off Who We Are planner
-Beginning Where we are in Place and Time unit and planner
-Descriptions for community displays
-How to add unit reflections on Managebac
Action:
-Complete WWA planner: student initiated action, all teacher names, resources (Kate)
-Begin to add all relevant information on WWAPT planner-assessments, inquiry cycle etc. (Adri)
-WWA reflections (all)
Oct 6th, 2013
Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish, Chris Absent: Kate (sick leave)
Discussion:
-Reflection journals to be used Grade wide when possible-free writing
-Feedback from reading & Writing course from Ms Adri; encourage free writing with emphasis on ideas rather than spelling, punctuation etc, children send notes instead of talking to each other, children to correct the weekly spelling words in their writing
Action:
-Teachers reflection on WWA unit planner to be added this week, add initials after comments
-Displays-finish off and make sure there is a description to explain what the task/learning objective is
Next meeting:
-WWAPT unit collaborative planning
Sept 29th, 2013
Present: Steven, Adri, Annie, Christa, Ita, Sana, Trish Absent: Kate, Chris (due to absent Arabic & UAE teachers)
Discussion:
-Are specialist teachers attending weekly planning meetings as requested by them last year?
-If possible weekly planning meeting to be moved from Tuesday to Wednesday to free Sana for Arabic meetings
-Continuation of inquiry cycle: going further stage-children working on individual projects
Action:
Email specialist teachers informing them of time and location for grade planning meetings (Trish)
Next meeting:
Assessment and Powerschool
Sept 22nd, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Adri, Annie, Christa, Chris, Ita, Sana, Trish
Discussion:
-Assessments for this unit, rubric for scoring created by Adri & Kate
-Only summative assessment to be recorded in PowerSchool
-Student Led Conference-3d community display on show
-Portfolio structure
Action:
Research student led conferences with video etc (Trish)
Next meeting:
Possible layout of student led conference
Sept 15th 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Adri, Annie, Christa, Chris, Ita, Sana, Trish
Discussion:
-Allocation of responsibility for updating each unit; WWA: Kate, WAPT: Adri, HWEO: Sana, HWW: Christa, HWOO: Steven, STP: Chris
-Update current UOI planner to include possible student initiated action & teaching activities for the attributes, attitudes and skills
-Discuss and record where the focus for learning will now be as a result of the pre-assessment task. Include on planner in section 3.
Action:
Kate to update planner
Next meeting:
Focus on assessments, student generated rubric? To include formative assessments on PowerSchool?
Sept 8th 2013
Meeting cancelled as no cover for some classes due to insufficient Arabic teachers
NEW ACADEMIC YEAR
May 12, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Ideas for inquiry cycle of HTWW
- Developed summative task for HTWW
- Reviewed planner for STP: looking pretty complete - even some SST contributions included
Action:
- Continue to develop Inquiry cycle for HTWW
Next Meeting:
- Team to meet independently and work on final visit preparation
April 29, 2013
*Meeting held without Glenn due to exec meeting clash
April 22, 2013
*Meeting with IB Consultant: Peggy Bumanis
April 16, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Central idea for upcoming HTWW unit: this is a new unit and so the team wanted the CI and LOI to be relatively set before Peggy's meeting next week
Action:
- Continue to develop and share ideas regarding focus of HTWW unit
April 14, 2013
*Meeting led by team (Glenn at exec meeting)
March 10, 2013
*Meeting led by team (Glenn at exec meeting)
March 3, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Focus areas for HTWW
Action:
- Continue to develop tuning in, finding out and assessment tasks for HTWW
Next Meeting:
- Review and continue
February 10, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Completion of reflection section for HTWW
- Additional (literacy?) activities for HWEO
- Placement of unit resources and assessment tools into appropriate folders
- Progress with regards to development of assessment tools for HWEO
February 3, 2013
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Assessment tools: have been assigned to teachers for development
- Continued to develop inquiry cycle
Action:
- Develop assessment tools (G2 - various)
- Place tools in folder (as above)
- Copy literacy planning (for story structure) across to planner (Kate)
- Reflection sections (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Reflection section of HTWW?
January 27, 2012
Present: Steven, Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- HWEO update: developed assessment tasks for section 3
- Summative: developed
- Trans skills: reviewed with the overview document
- LP assembly skit: discussed idea of students taking over and developing ideas for the attributes - stick to caring for tomorrow though..
Action:
- Delegate and develop assessment tools (G2 team)
- Speak with Aaron re. assessment task (Kate)
- Reflection section for HTWW (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress..
January 20, 2013
Present: Steven Kate, Annie, Adri, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- CI for HWEO: Changed to Stories are told in different ways and for different purposes
- Developed assessment tasks for proposed (literacy outcomes)
- Discussed importance of having assessment task/tools ready to go
- Discussed possibilities that the new CI could open up: different ways of telling stories and different purposes
Action:
- Develop assessment tools for proposed tasks (G2 team)
- Re-look at ELA outcomes with a view to finding more (possibly S+L) outcfome that align witht he unit (G2 team)
- Populate inquiry cycle (G2 team)
- Update CI on POI (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Look at and discuss developed assessment tasks
- Continue to populate inquiry cycle
January 13, 2013
Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Christine, Steven, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Unit progress with HTWW: going along well. Discussed which assessments had been completed, and the need for the assessment tools to be placed intot he assessment tools folder
- Timeline for HWEO: extended HTWW for one week. Discussed keeping the assessment tasks to a minimum due to time being taken for concert
Action:
- Continue to look at CI so as to make it more 'concrete (All)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
January 6, 2012
*Team meeting held independently (Glenn on leave)
December 09, 2012
Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Steven, Trish, Sanaa, Glenn (Apologies: Christine)
Discussion:
- Development of assessment tools for proposed outcomes. Delegated task developemnt (as indicated on pllanner)
- Discussed proposals (colored bits)
- SST contributions: still difficult to know what's happening outside of the classroom
- Looked at ICT webpage: this may help..
- UAE follow up: Nabeilah is happy to help witht he assessment of those outcomes but needs some guidance
Action:
- Development of assessment tools for each proposed outcome/assessment task (various as indicated on planner)
- Speak with Nathan/Nabeilah/PE teachers (Kate)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
November 25, 2012
Present: Kate, Annie, Josephine, Christine, Steven, Trish, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Next unit: HTWW (not what was on the POI sequence doc)
- Lines of inquiry changed to be more closely aligned with outcomes
- Reviewed progress with planner for HTWW: reorganized formatting of assessment tasks in section 3 (so as to retain consistency with other grades)
- Chose transdisciplinary skills: explained rationale for including them in this stage of the planner and how (some of them) should be referenced in the comments section of Q2 reports
Action:
- Update POI (PDF and public display) with revised HTWW LOI (Glenn)
- Develop assessment tools (G2 team)
- Flesh out task for LP activities (Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Development of assessment tools?
November 20, 2012
Present: Kate, Trish, Christine, Josephine, Steven, Sanaa, Maria, Glenn
Discussion:
*Meeting with IB Consultant regarding progress since last visit, challenges, and most urgent needs
November 11, 2012
Present: Kate, Annie, Adri, Christine, Josephine, Trish, Steven, Glenn
Discussion:
- Continued to develop ideas for WWAPT
November 4, 2012
Present: Kate, Annie, Adri, Christine, Josephine, Trish, Steven, Glenn
Discussion:
- Little follow up from SSTs post integration carousel #1
- Specialist documenting on planners of major focus?
- Where be d planner at?
- Outcomes for WWAPT had not been developed in section 3 of the planner
- Worked on the development of aligned assessment tasks for unit #2
- ELA component: poetry writing (limericks!;)
- Summative task: Combine timeline. Discussed how this could be organized so that it truly assesses student understanding iof the CI
Action:
- Touch up the planner (Glenn)
- Communicate concern #1 with Aaron (Glenn)
- Further develop summative task (G2 team)
- Check planner #3 and ensure that outcomes are documented with aligned assessment tasks (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with the above
October 7, 2012
Present: Glenn, Trish
Discussion:
- Continued to align assessment tasks with proposed outcomes in section 3 of planner
- Planning that had to be modified to accomodate developmental level of students
- How to document the above in the planner: in reflection section
- Starting with all proposed outcomes (S/SS and ELA) and developing assessment taks for all right from the beginning
Action:
- Start pre-planning for unit #2: start with proposed outcomes (G2 team)
- Complete reflections for unit #1 (G2 team)
- Prepare planner (Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Review planner progress (units 1 and 2)
- Decide what to do next for unit #2 (assessment tasks etc.)
September 30, 2012
Present: Worked independently due to G2 field trips
Discussion:
- Transfer proposed assessment tasks into section 3 of the planner and align with relevant evidence outcomes
- Meet to look at tidying up homework page
Action:
- Aligned assessments and tasks in section 3 (Glenn and Trish)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
September 23, 2012
*No meeting due to AdvancEd (all day) session
September 16, 2012
Present: Kate, Annie, Trish, Steven, Christine, Adri, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn
Discussion:
- Inquiry cycle progress: team going well. Discussed positive aspects of documenting the cycle (reflective tool)
- Hand written displays are okay: modelling what we are asking students to produce
- Look at manageable ways to link tasks to assessments/evidence outcomes on the planner
- Back to School plans: Unit information on the G2 web page
- PYP Info. session to be held at around the same time as the Q1 report
- K drive: try not to be saving updated documents there as we are in the process of migrating data to new directory
- Next unit ideas: Kate
Action:
- Transfer proposed assessment tasks into section 3 of the planner and align with relevant evidence outcomes (Trish and Glenn)
- Meet to look at tidying up homework page (Steven and Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Develop assessment taks that align with evidence outcomes
September 9, 2012
Present: Annie, Trish, Steven, Christine, Adri, Josephine, Sanaa, Glenn (Apologies: Kate)
Discussion:
- Please bring MTPYPH to all meetings..
- Inquiry cycle PD: G2 to share their progress at an upcoming PD session
- Need more copies of Classroom Connections..
- Single subject integration: ICT needs work
- Display boards: where are they?
- Slow start: may students not yet displaying skills needed for what has been planned. Much setting up and reinforcement of routines. Many students not able to write much at all. Central Idea taking time to unpack.
- Progress with inquiry cycle: should they display each stage? Glenn: might be nice to have somethingt o document the journey/be able to make reference to. Space a consideration..
- Planning documentation: planner becoming bigger and more complex (now with included stages of inquiry cycle), some finding it not user friendly. Glenn: it's a requirement, let's continiue to plan, do and review and see what improvements we can make.
- Formative and summative assessment tasks: the evidence ouotcomes covered should be embedded in tha planner - and (ideally) linked to tasks
Action:
- Look at manageable ways to link tasks to assessments/evidence outcomes on the planner (Glenn/Trish)
- Continue to unpack (all)
Next Meeting:
- Revisit ways to embed EO within planner
- Next unit ideas..
June 18, 2012
Present: Kate, Mandala, Glenn
Discussion:
- Continued to refine POI: especially with regards to G2/G3 overlap (in WWA)
Action:
- Share development with teams and get back to me (Kate and Mandala)
June 14, 2012
Present: Kate, Trish, Adri, Annie, Christine, Sanaa, Steven, Annie, Glenn
Discussion:
- Progress on POI standards alignment since last meeting
- Refinement of lines of inquiry
- Possibility of changing HWEO to accomodate KG1: decision was made that Glenn go back to KG1 with alternatives as this unit fits better with G2 ELA standards
- Refinement of LOI and tweaking of CI
- HWEO left for the moment until we are clear with how to proceed: if ok, work on refining existing LOI
Action:
- Discuss alternatives with KG1 (Glenn)
- Continue to plot out assessment and provocation ideas (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Monday?
June 3, 2012
Present: Kate, Trish, Adri, Annie, Christine, Sanaa, Steven, Glenn
Discussion:
- Report comments
- Progress with POI
- What's next: assessments
Action:
- Propose summative and formative assessment tasks for each unit (G2 team)
- Refine Lines of Inquiry so that they are focused on building towards the above (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress of above
- Discuss when a Grade Level Matrix shouold be developed (now of in September?)
May 27, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana
Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 20, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 13, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Continued to develop units with aligned standards
May 6, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Standards/unit alignment
- Social science standards - we can 'prioritize' ones that are/not being taught by UAE
- STP: broaden central idea to focus on habitats and organisms
- HTWW: difficult to create focus - cities doesn't work?
Action:
- Continue to develop unit ideas and central ideas for G2 POI 2012
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 6, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Steven, Trish, Annie, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Trish's work with the Inquiry Cycle
- The development of the planner (for What's the Weather!)
- Unit and reflection progress
- Planning documents - everyone 'staying on the same page'
- G2 Unit overhaul - looked at organizing themes that need to have units changed, discussed timeline and ways that we can achieve this
Action:
- UAE teachers to go through sSocial Science standards and highlight which evidence outcomes they cover in UAE (UAE teachers)
- Make folders on the K for sample POIs and Grade level POIs (Glenn)
- Contact Sanaa regarding Social Science standards/alignment (Glenn)
- Email Nathan re. unit integration (Trish?)
- Finish reflection section of Field to table (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with G2 POI
- Look at planner development
April 15, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Trish, Steven, Glenn
Discussion:
- G2 unit review in relation to science and social studies standards
- Team cut and pasted evidence outcomes from the above standards docs to see where they are (and where they are not) aligned
- Concern communicated about impending new standards: when they are coming out and how this will affect the process we are currently going through: science and social studies need to be embedded in our POI for our upcoming verification visit - this is an IB requirement. The process will take time and while we have no idea when the 'new' standards will arrive, we have to get organized with what we have
- Some key science content areas not covered?
- Team planning session (last wekk) went really well
- G2 classroom visits: difficult this wee due to assessments and concerts
Action:
- Transfer info from today onto electronic format (Glenn)
- Invite Glenn to class if/when PYP session taking place (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review unit progress
- Review embedded standards document
March 19, 2012
Present: Trish, Kate, Annie, Christine, Steven, Glenn (Apologies: Sanaa and Adri - no PE)
Discussion:
- Weather unit - CI and LOI in relation to the science and social studies standards
- Impact - can it be a concept?
- Structure of central ideas: two concepts and an active verb
- Where to put standards (try section 2: what do we want to learn)
- Dissection of standards and discussion of what fits well
- Summative task
Action:
- Put ideas (mods) onto planner (Glenn)
- Think of summative task and learning engagements that relate to the lines of inquiry (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Finalize summative and section 4 activities
March 11, 2012
Present: Trish, Kate, Christine, Adri, Sanaa, Annie, Steven, Glenn
Discussed:
- Unit progress
- Standards integration
- Concert
Action:
- Review CI and LOI for Weather unit (G2 team)
- Review planner and modify section 4 (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review CI and LOI in relation to science and social studies standards (Trish's room)
March 4, 2012
* G2 teachers met and planned independently
February 26, 2012
Present: Kate, Trish, Glenn
Discussion:
- Planners need to be completed - G2 team is doing well with this
- Areas that still need to be completed
- Imagination unit - lesson learned
- Healthy body - many science standards but none of the relate to standards
- What to do with planners that didn't really cover standards (as they should have)
- Standards - where to put them on the planner
- Focus - team must maintain a consistent approach to implementing the unit
Action:
- Look at Central Idea and Lines of inquiry modifications for Field to Table unit (G2 Team)
- Complete reflection sections for RRR and imagination (G2 team)
- Send rubrics/assessment tools to Glenn (Kate)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Ideas for assessment tasks for FTT unit
- Review Central idea and Lines of Inquiry
February 19, 2012
Present: Trish, Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Kaye, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Pre-assessment v. Tuning In activities: best to frame the activity so that you have something (beyond a conversation) that indicates what students know
- Central idea
- 2nd and 3rd line of inquiry: some overlap? How should we view these?
- Focus should really come from the organizing theme descriptors, in this case: An inquiry into the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities
- 2 categories of foods for the 3rd line of inquiry: Natural and Processed. Explore the different stages of each of these
Action:
- Transdisciplinary skills (Glenn - Trish to check)
- Summative rubric (Trish and Adri)
Next Meeting:
- Review planner and rubric
- Look at possibility of developing a timeline?
February 12, 2012
*Meeting cancelled due to Glenn and Christine being at workshops in Dubai
February 5, 2012 (x2 meetings)
Present: Trish, Kate, Christine, Adri, Annie, Kaye, Sana, Glenn
Discussion:
- Time: very difficult to get planner obligations completed when there are so many other things to do. Planner ends up being down on the list of priorities when there are so many other things taking up time. Taking care of classes takes no. 1 priority, but many other things getting in the way of team being able to keep up with PYP requirements
- Challenges with regards to planning collaboratively
- Imagination concert: fantastic idea and Action component of unit but not sure how to proceed
- Meeting/PD time not effective use of teacher time: Tuesday time could be organized much better - ensuring that teams have time to plan collaboratively should be a priority, not an add on
- Ways that team can organize themselves to plan collaboratively without being assigned the time (as discussed at last Tuesday's meeting)
- Possible ways that team can delegate (from within) a teacher to take on responsibility of maintinaing planner, and ensuring that everyone remains on the same page (at least fromt he outset)
- Next unit: hasn't been done before so should give team a good opportunity to pre-plan, follow through with proposed action action and plan collaboratively
- Try not to bite off more than we can chew: possibly a symptom of teachers (essentially) planning in isloation
- Many/most activities related only to the first line of inquiry and in that were very thematic, as opposed to really focusing in on the lines of inquiry or the central idea
Action:
- Discuss Tuesday meeting/PD time frustrations with John (Glenn)
- Discuss how Imagination concert: Continue with original plan? Classes do it seperately? Look at the possibility of holding action (fund raising component) over until one of the next units (G2 team)
- Start to fill in section 4 activities as generated in today's second meeting (Glenn)
- Write down any other activities that may be happening/have happened that relate tot he central idea or the lines of inquiry (especially the second one) and send them to Glenn so that he can add them to the planner (G2 team)
- Review central idea and lines of inquiry for Field to Table unit (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with planner
- Discuss ways to finish up unit and preparation needed to successfully pre-plan for next
January 29, 2012
*Glenn absent
January 22, 2012
*Meeting cancelled due to teacher absences and preparation for reports
January 15, 2012
Present: Kate, Christine, Annie, Kaye, Trish, Glenn (Adri and Sana - no cover)
Discussion:
- Ideas for Pure Imagination unit
- Review of focus for PI unit
- Review and modificvation of central idea: Imagination is a powerful tool for thinking, creating and expressing ourselves
- Discussion about focus of CI: visual arts and creative problem solving
- Summative assessment task: world of wearable art andana, Adri)
- Magic paintbrush materials preparation (?)
- Look at speaking and listening standards creative solutions task?
- Collaborative planning strategies
Action:
- Find some good BP tech (creative thinking) challenges, be ready to share next meeting (Christine)
- Talk with Brenda regarding WOWA component (S(G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review of reflection sections - where are we at?
- Sharing of activity ideas for Pure Imagination unit
January 8, 2011
Present: Annie, Adri, Kate, Trish, Kaye, Sana, Glenn (Christine off sick)
Discussion:
- Current unit progress: finishing off assessments for RRR unit
- How standards were difficult to fit into this unit: social science (civics) was the one most applicable to the central idea
- Revision of the summative assessment task (to align it with both the central idea and the social science evidence outcome)
- Replace the word 'changes' to 'impacts' (in the central idea)
- Pure Imagination central idea and lines of inquiry review: do we like them/interpret them in the same way?
- Thematic v. Inquiry-based approaches to teaching units
Action:
- Send SA rubric and task outline to Glenn (Adri)
- Update planner (Glenn)
- Plan meeting outlines for Pure Imagination unit (G2 team)
- Develop activity ideas for Pure Imagination unit and be ready to share at next week's meeting (G2 team)
Next Meeting:
- Sharing of activity ideas for Pure imagination unit
November 27, 2011
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
- Meeting roles and responsibilities
- Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
- What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
- Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
Curriculum area rolesSCIENCE: Christine
MATH: Kate
ENGLISH: Annie, Kaye, Sana
PYP: Trish, Adri
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Scribe: : Adri
- Plan summative assessment task/s.
- Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
- Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies)
- Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Trip? Ronald Mc Donald. Feedback from Christine, follow up with NadiaScribe Christine
Scribe Kaye
- Next unit (responsibilities) overview:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
- Meeting roles and responsibilities
- Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
- Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
- What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
- Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
Curriculum area rolesSCIENCE: Christine
MATH: Kate
ENGLISH: Annie (phonics),
PYP: Trish
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Scribe: : Adri
- Plan summative assessment task/s.
- Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies)
- Reflection task. Who is responsible? Group leaders?
Trip? Ronald Mc Donald. Feedback from Christine, follow up with NadiaScribe Christine
Scribe Kaye
1.Look at summative assessment task/s make a plan for what we will do. (re-visit next week)
2. Link assessment tasks with standards. (science, English, social studies) DELEGATE!
3. What are we assessing? How? (Rubric – central idea, standards)
4. Allocate job roles to team members: who wants to take lead on next unit?
November 13
Discussion:
- Progress with Changing Times and plans on how to wrap it up
- Started to complete the reflection section of Changing Times
- Responsibilities of specialist teachers and ways that they can collaborate more effectively with Grade level teams: who is responsible to maintain communication; where is (specialist) planning stored; who can view it..
- Parent education: how we need to improve in this area
Action:
- Complete reflection sections for Changing Times unit (G2 team)
- Organize reflection comments (from today) into appropriate sections on planner (Glenn)
Next meeting:
- Finish reflection section for Changing Times and continue with planning for RRR
November 6
As documentation for our upcoming IB visit is due this Wednesday it was decided that we would focus on completing the reflection section of Unit 1 during this week's meeting
- Breifly covered where we are at with regards to current unit
- Reflection section for 'The amazing human body': group walk through of the different reflection sections of the planner, all teachers contributed their thoughts and ideas which were noted in the relevant sections
- Discussion of how to complete the planner from here: using different colours cover the parts that we didn't get done today
October 30
Discussion:
- Ways to ensure that our meetings are efficient and productive: meeting items and follow up sent by Glenn, fllow up notes to be published on the G2 wiki page, team to take care of any preparation needed before arriving at the meeting, Team to look at taking more control over the actual development of the Unit Planner (try for next unit).
- Resources: challenges faced in this unit by the lack of them - various notes added to reflection section of Cultures unit
- Cultures unit to be extended for one more week - RRR to be shortened accordingly
- Reflection section of Unit 1: how this can be managed given competing priorities
- Looked at planner for Reduce, Re-use Recycle: changed one line of inquiry to accomodate 'responsibility' focus better
Action:
- Write to Masdar city rep requesting info about possible visit (Glenn)
- Review RRR planner and organize activities according to key concepts (Glenn)
- Fill out reflection section of Human Body planner (G2 team)
Next Week:
- Discuss unit progress
- Form game plan for next UOI (RRR)
October 23
Meeting cancelled: Glenn off sick