Sept 18th 2013 Present: Paul, Helen, Lindsay, Muhammed, Elaine, Gideon, Trish, (Christine SEN Parent meeting) Discussion:
-OCC logins given out -Responsibility for Managebac updates: Gideon-WAPT, HWW, STP. Paul: WWA, HWEO, HWOO
-Quick overview of how to input information to Managebac
Action:
Inquiry cycle to be developed and added to Managebac (Trish & Paul)
Next meeting:
Review Inquiry cycle Sept 11th 2013 Present: Paul, Helen, Lindsay, Muhammed, Elaine, Gideon, Christine, Trish Discussion: -How do science standards align with a Who we are (social studies) unit?
-Summative and formative assessment tasks
-Challenges with implementing Reading Street
Action:
-Collaboratively plan activities to populate the inquiry cycle for the current unit
Next meeting:
-Review progress
November 7, 2012 Present: Paul, Tracy, Chris, Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion: - Planner for WWA - where it's at
- Overview of developed assessmment tasks asd inquiry cycle strategies for HWEO
- Unit to go unitl the originally scheduled date
- Alex Brychta visit
- Mandala to resume responsibility of planner maintenance, Paul to take over webpage
- Brief overview of HWEO resources
Action:
- Finish WWA (Mandala, Glenn)
- Delegate and develop resources/assessment tools for HWEO
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
October 17, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Paul, Lindsay, Chris, Glenn Discussion:
- This morning's LP assembly
- The piloting of UOI skills and concepts-specific comments being entered into the Homeroom section of Powerschool Gradebook: one member from each of G1-4 will be doing this so as to bring more of a focus to units when it comes to the report card; G3 team can all do it if they wish; generic descriptor focused on unit information and progress with regards to skill development
- Development of assessment tasks for the first couple of outcomes: diamond ranking task linked to ELA outcome: yeah!
- (Glenn) became frightened by mysterious sound coming from computer (which was a vid on the KidPix page..)
- Planner/planning process difficult to follow, difficult to know where we are and where we were when it's on the whiteboard: can we 'blow up' a hard copy?
Action:
- Continue to develop assessment tasks for proposed outcomes (G3 team)
- Continue to populate inquiry cycle (G3 team)
- Upload and share this morning's video with G3 team (Glenn)
- Chain Tracy G to desk until planner is complete (:)
Next Meeting:
- Reviewww
October 10, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Paul, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion: - Pre-planning for HWEO: chose of ELA outcomes and plooted them into section 3 of the planner
- Subject integration from other areas: discussed challenges with integrating Math - demands of EDM and the spiral making it very difficult to do anything ouotside of that. Team feels that Math is working well as is and will look for alignment possibilities within the next units to be taught.
- Reviewed pre-planning document (from June)
Action:
- Complete planner reflection for WWA (G3 team)
- Look at Math standards/next EDM units with a view to finding an outcomes that might align with HWEO unit (G3 team)
- Develop assessment tasks for proposed outcomes, put onto planner (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with aligned assessment tasks and inquiry cycle for HWEO
October 3, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Unit #2
Action:
- Start to develop planner for unit #2 (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Pre-planning
September 26, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Next steps: current unit assessment tasks, planner completion and pre-planning for next unit
- Integration carousel: success! Many single subject teachers on board for next unit..
- New directory (Q drive)
Action:
- Finalize and develop assessment tasks for current unit (including ELA), communicate to Glenn (G3 team)
- Prepare HWEO unit planner and send to Tracy (Glenn)
- Choose ELA outcomes for WWA, document on planner (Tracy, Paul, Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with unit assessments
- Plan for how to complete WWA planner
- Start to look at/develop new planner
September 19, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Alignment of assessment tasks with evidence outcomes for science, social science and ELA - documenting this on the planner
- Inquiry cycle: modifying planner as it is to organize section 3 tasks into the stages of the inquiry cycle
Action:
- Continue to develop planner (G3 team)
- Begin pre-planning for unit 3 (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Break into 2 groups? One work on current planner and the other to start developing planner/planning for unit #2
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 4, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Reviewed CIs for each unit: happy!
- Discussed the idea of developing Summative and LOI assessments next
- Then: LP and Attitudes and related concepts
- Then: proposed single-subject integration
- Which planners need to be completed
Action:
- Continue with developing assessments for each unit (G3 team)
- Look at completing the LP and Attitude fields (G3 team)
- Complete the related concepts fields (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 28, 2012 Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Continued to develop G3 POI: dicussed mainly focus for WWAPT unit - referencing G2 focus, the organizing theme descriptors and the proposed standards
- Tentatively changed 'Historical Events' to 'People' and decided that prominant historical figures would be the focus
Action:
- Continue to look at development ideas: tweak central ideas for HTWW andd STP - add a LOI for HWEO
Next Meeting:
- Continue development
May 21, 2012 Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- Next generation science standards: reasons why we should not attempt to implement them at this stage
- Identifying key aspects of standards as mapped out within organizing themes to identify topics - WWAPT took a loooong time!
- HWEO: advertising/design focus unit goes well with HWOO
Action:
- Continue to develop/refine central ideas (G3 team and Glenn)
- Continue to identify focus areas (topics) for undeveloped units (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 7, 2012 Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay Discussion:
- G3 POI reconstruction: science (life cycles) standards; tweaking of inventions central idea; STP focus in relation to the organizing theme descriptor and proposed SS standadrs
- Central ideas tweaked to remove pronouns: HWEO
- Focus for STP
- Whether earth science standadrs should really go into HTWW
- Can we get away with having science standards spread over two units only?
Action:
- Input info developed thus far to standards alignment document (Glenn)
- Review above (G3 team and Glenn)
- Look closely at how we can modify the STP unit to accomodate organizing hteme descriptor and standards (G3 team and Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with POI reconstruction
March 14, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy G, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- To do list
- Concert
- Various March 5, 2012 Present: Helen, Tracy G, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn Discussion:
- 'To do' list
- Reflection section for Inventions unit
- Team broke into 2 groups and worked on reflections and assessments
Action:
- Continue to work on reflection sections and assessments (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
February 27, 2012 Present: Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Tracy, Chris, Glenn Discussion:
- Unit planning checklist
- Only units that have been completed need to be done (so far)
- Grade level planning documentation: various
Action:
- Continue to develop planners (Mandala and Tracy)
- Work on developing planning documents as requested (G3 team)
- Reflection sections of The Wheel and Home Sweet Home (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with regards to completion of planners
February 20, 2012 Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn, Helen Discussion:
- Mandal's planner modifications
- Weeks 4, 5 and 6 focus
- Science standards: how to incorporate - rock cycle and making bricks
- Specialist integration: Brenda making houses. Ensure this is documented on the planner
- Mural for G3 gallery walk
- Summative assessment ideas: 2D or 3D (or the option of both)
- UAE from above video
Action:
- Put UAE from above video onto Netvibes page (Glenn)
- Transfer planning onto planner (Mandala)
- Develop a checklist example (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Look at resources that need to be gathered/developed in preparation for the final weeks
- Review next unit central idea?
February 13, 2012 Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn, Helen Discussion:
- Communication: importance of communicating effectively
- Glenn's needs (!): someone to take on the role of being the 'planner person' - kindly taken on by Mandala
- Review of planning process v planner requirements: adding an extra page to the planner that provides a weekly overview of what should be covered
- Inquiry: Feedback from Mandala about the T+L workshop - need to adopt an inquiry cycle; ideas for PD; basic philosophy
- Requirements for integration - differing ideas/approaches and what we need to do to work out what's best within our context
Action:
- Work on getting planning onto planners (Mandala and Glenn)
- Continue to develop unit ideas (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review and continue planning
February 6, 2012 Present: Mandala,, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Steven, Glenn (Helen: absent) Discussion:
- Pre-assessment: can it be designed so that it gives more indication of what the kids actually know going in to the unit
- Development of section 4 activities
- International day organization and integration
- Review of resources from (Glenn's) structures unit
- Neighborhood walk idea
- Develop and share rubric with students - make learning expectations clear and explicit right from the outset
Action:
- Home Sweet Home planner to be updated with ideas generated thus far (Glenn)
- Pre-assessment organizer: different types of homes (Glenn)
- Continue to discuss/generate activity ideas that relate to the lines of inquiry and central Idea (G3 team)
- Develop rubric (or at least criteria) (G3 team)
- Contact Abdul Ala about having Google Earth pushed onto school computers (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review unit progress
- Continue to develop section 4 and discuss ways to get reflection sections
January 30, 2012 Present: Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn Discussion:
- Current unit progress - finishing up activities and summative assessment role plays
- What needs to be done: activities (section 4) and reflection section of The Wheel unit
- Summative assessment and foci for Home Sweet Home unit: booklet that breaks down Central Idea criteria into manageable components and is filled in throughout the unit - will we have paper resources to sustain such an idea?
- Review of ideas from Wednesday's (collab. planning) meeting
- Let's not bite off more than we can chew
Action:
- Home Sweet Home planner to be constructed: including ideas generated thus far (glenn)
- Reflection comments from Wednesday (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review Home Sweet home planner progress
- Discuss ways to get section 4 and reflection sections completed
January 23, 2012 Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn (Helen: no cover) Discussion:
- Refinements to summative assessment task: each group to take on one type of technology and represent it throughout the 4 time periods.
- Assessments developed for 2 lines of inquiry
- Timeline for unit to be re-arced for next year so as to ensure the incorporation of the 3rd timeline effectively
Action:
- Activities section (4) of planner to be completed (G3 team)
- Assessment tools to be generated and sent to Glenn/placed into the unit resources folder (G3 team)
January 16, 2012 Present: Chris, Mandala, Lindsay, Helen, Tracy G, Glenn Discussion:
- Finalizing reflection section of OTWWG planner
- Support staff appreciation day - does it/can it happen?
- Developing summative assessment task: include a reflection component that students complete as the role plays are being done, as well as an expository writing piece
- Development of Pictorial reflection organizer
- Writing pieces that will be/can be incorporated into this unit: letter writing and expository piece?
Action:
- Continue discussion about writing challenges (G3 team)
- Next week's tasks where possible (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Perhaps break into 2 groups: one to work on transferring unit activities (section 4) from group planning to planner; the other to work on a rubric and other assessment tasks (relating to the lines of inquiry)
January 9, 2012 Discussion:
- Review of unit timeline
- Web resources on Netvibes page
- Break up into 2 groups - one to work on getting the planning info onto the planner and the other to work on the reflection section of 'Off to work we go!'
- Review of summative assessment task
- Discussion about the end for a balance of activities that develop understanding of lines of inquiry
Action:
- Send teacher questions to Glenn (Mandala)
- Transfer activity ideas (from flipchart planning) onto unit planner (Tracy, Mandala, Chris)
- Complete reflection section of OTWWG unit (Helen, Lindsay)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress, plan for anything that needs to be prepared
- Start reflection section?
December 12, 2011 Discussion:
- Weekly unit breakdown: modified central idea and extra line of inquiry (whether all inventions are beneficial)
- Chindogu: Japanese art of useless inventions
- ENS Netvibes page
- Focus: reflection section or filling out the planner
- Discussed time periods and how related to UAE it should be
Action:
- Reflection section of Off to work we go (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Continue to fill out planner/work on assessments December 5, 2011 Discussion:
- Review of previous week's collaborative planning session
Action:
- Open up unit as per weekly overview plan
Next Week:
- review progress
MINUTES OF GRADE 3 COLLABORATIVE PLANNING MEETING
WEDNESDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2011
__
Present: Helen, Lindsay, Mandala,
Rana, Nabeilah, Ghenwah (Arabic and UAE teachers)
Aaron (Music)
Brenda (Art)
Anca (PE)
Aaron felt that his subject does not lend itself to this topic (Inventions). As he has been heavily involved in the present unit (Off to work we go, looking at how we organize ourselves), it was agreed that he would not be as involved in this unit.
Brenda was not sure how she could get on board so we suggested that she look at how painting has developed over time (e.g. rock paintings to modern techniques). She became excited about this and said she had a great lesson in mind, but that she would need assistance in the classroom. The Gr 3 team that they could help her during these lessons.
Anca was not sure either. We suggested that the PE department look at how sport has developed over time (especially how the Olympic Games has developed over the years). The gr 3 teachers felt that we could teach the intro lessons and that the PE teachers could then demonstrate how sport has changed and get the students involved in this way. (Videos of �extreme sports� to be shown????)
The Arabic staff offered their support in any way possible. It was agreed that Ms Rana (the Arabic teacher who has a classroom in the Gr 3 pod) would be given the same display material as the Gr 3 class teachers so that she can reinforce in Arabic lessons what is being done in the home rooms.
We recognized the need for follow-up meetings throughout the Unit, but it was decided that time constraints do not allow for a formal meeting once a week. We then decided that members of the Gr 3 team would meet individually with the Specialist teachers at regular intervals during the unit and would then report back to the Gr 3 team.
November 14, 2011 Discussion:
- Unit progress and what needs to be done
- Specialist integration - how successful has it been this unit
- Consultation visit: what it will involve for the G3 teachers
- Display plans for Thirdgradeville
- Planning for next unit: how to prepare
Action:
- Speak with Aaron about how well he was able to integrate for this unit (Helen)
- Send Glenn the weekly breakdown for the unit (Tracy G)
- Review planner for 'Bubbling with Inspiration' and think about what needs to be prepared - it's a new unit so it will likely be a lot.. (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review specialist integration success
- Discuss ideas for next unit (review)
- Consultation visit questions (and answers)
- Unit progress
October 31, 2011 Discussion: 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 'You've got a friend': 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
- How to complete the planner from here. (see below)
Action:
- Send assessment tools used to Glenn (Helen)
- Look at the remaining sections on the planner and add (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress of 'Off to work we go'
- Decide on assessment tasks - delegate...
October 24, 2011
Discussion:
- Assessment tasks for Off to Work
- Development of summative assessment rubric (draft)
Action:
- Look at suggested activities (section 4) and possible assessments in the context of the lines of inquiry (section 3 - bottom). Decide on how these activities can fit in with standards, and hence assesments for Q2 reports (All teachers)
Next Week:
- Review unit progress, modify planner to reflect 'Grade Threeville' activities, and finalize assessment tasks
Present: Paul, Helen, Lindsay, Muhammed, Elaine, Gideon, Trish, (Christine SEN Parent meeting)
Discussion:
-OCC logins given out
-Responsibility for Managebac updates: Gideon-WAPT, HWW, STP. Paul: WWA, HWEO, HWOO
-Quick overview of how to input information to Managebac
Action:
Inquiry cycle to be developed and added to Managebac (Trish & Paul)
Next meeting:
Review Inquiry cycle
Sept 11th 2013
Present: Paul, Helen, Lindsay, Muhammed, Elaine, Gideon, Christine, Trish
Discussion:
-How do science standards align with a Who we are (social studies) unit?
-Summative and formative assessment tasks
-Challenges with implementing Reading Street
Action:
-Collaboratively plan activities to populate the inquiry cycle for the current unit
Next meeting:
-Review progress
November 7, 2012
Present: Paul, Tracy, Chris, Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Planner for WWA - where it's at
- Overview of developed assessmment tasks asd inquiry cycle strategies for HWEO
- Unit to go unitl the originally scheduled date
- Alex Brychta visit
- Mandala to resume responsibility of planner maintenance, Paul to take over webpage
- Brief overview of HWEO resources
Action:
- Finish WWA (Mandala, Glenn)
- Delegate and develop resources/assessment tools for HWEO
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
October 17, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Paul, Lindsay, Chris, Glenn
Discussion:
- This morning's LP assembly
- The piloting of UOI skills and concepts-specific comments being entered into the Homeroom section of Powerschool Gradebook: one member from each of G1-4 will be doing this so as to bring more of a focus to units when it comes to the report card; G3 team can all do it if they wish; generic descriptor focused on unit information and progress with regards to skill development
- Development of assessment tasks for the first couple of outcomes: diamond ranking task linked to ELA outcome: yeah!
- (Glenn) became frightened by mysterious sound coming from computer (which was a vid on the KidPix page..)
- Planner/planning process difficult to follow, difficult to know where we are and where we were when it's on the whiteboard: can we 'blow up' a hard copy?
Action:
- Continue to develop assessment tasks for proposed outcomes (G3 team)
- Continue to populate inquiry cycle (G3 team)
- Upload and share this morning's video with G3 team (Glenn)
- Chain Tracy G to desk until planner is complete (:)
Next Meeting:
- Reviewww
October 10, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Paul, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Pre-planning for HWEO: chose of ELA outcomes and plooted them into section 3 of the planner
- Subject integration from other areas: discussed challenges with integrating Math - demands of EDM and the spiral making it very difficult to do anything ouotside of that. Team feels that Math is working well as is and will look for alignment possibilities within the next units to be taught.
- Reviewed pre-planning document (from June)
Action:
- Complete planner reflection for WWA (G3 team)
- Look at Math standards/next EDM units with a view to finding an outcomes that might align with HWEO unit (G3 team)
- Develop assessment tasks for proposed outcomes, put onto planner (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with aligned assessment tasks and inquiry cycle for HWEO
October 3, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Unit #2
Action:
- Start to develop planner for unit #2 (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Pre-planning
September 26, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Next steps: current unit assessment tasks, planner completion and pre-planning for next unit
- Integration carousel: success! Many single subject teachers on board for next unit..
- New directory (Q drive)
Action:
- Finalize and develop assessment tasks for current unit (including ELA), communicate to Glenn (G3 team)
- Prepare HWEO unit planner and send to Tracy (Glenn)
- Choose ELA outcomes for WWA, document on planner (Tracy, Paul, Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with unit assessments
- Plan for how to complete WWA planner
- Start to look at/develop new planner
September 19, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Alignment of assessment tasks with evidence outcomes for science, social science and ELA - documenting this on the planner
- Inquiry cycle: modifying planner as it is to organize section 3 tasks into the stages of the inquiry cycle
Action:
- Continue to develop planner (G3 team)
- Begin pre-planning for unit 3 (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Break into 2 groups? One work on current planner and the other to start developing planner/planning for unit #2
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 4, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Reviewed CIs for each unit: happy!
- Discussed the idea of developing Summative and LOI assessments next
- Then: LP and Attitudes and related concepts
- Then: proposed single-subject integration
- Which planners need to be completed
Action:
- Continue with developing assessments for each unit (G3 team)
- Look at completing the LP and Attitude fields (G3 team)
- Complete the related concepts fields (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 28, 2012
Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Continued to develop G3 POI: dicussed mainly focus for WWAPT unit - referencing G2 focus, the organizing theme descriptors and the proposed standards
- Tentatively changed 'Historical Events' to 'People' and decided that prominant historical figures would be the focus
Action:
- Continue to look at development ideas: tweak central ideas for HTWW andd STP - add a LOI for HWEO
Next Meeting:
- Continue development
May 21, 2012
Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- Next generation science standards: reasons why we should not attempt to implement them at this stage
- Identifying key aspects of standards as mapped out within organizing themes to identify topics - WWAPT took a loooong time!
- HWEO: advertising/design focus unit goes well with HWOO
Action:
- Continue to develop/refine central ideas (G3 team and Glenn)
- Continue to identify focus areas (topics) for undeveloped units (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
May 7, 2012
Present: Helen, Chris, Tracy G, Mandala, Lindsay
Discussion:
- G3 POI reconstruction: science (life cycles) standards; tweaking of inventions central idea; STP focus in relation to the organizing theme descriptor and proposed SS standadrs
- Central ideas tweaked to remove pronouns: HWEO
- Focus for STP
- Whether earth science standadrs should really go into HTWW
- Can we get away with having science standards spread over two units only?
Action:
- Input info developed thus far to standards alignment document (Glenn)
- Review above (G3 team and Glenn)
- Look closely at how we can modify the STP unit to accomodate organizing hteme descriptor and standards (G3 team and Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with POI reconstruction
March 14, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy G, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- To do list
- Concert
- Various
March 5, 2012
Present: Helen, Tracy G, Mandala, Chris, Lindsay, Glenn
Discussion:
- 'To do' list
- Reflection section for Inventions unit
- Team broke into 2 groups and worked on reflections and assessments
Action:
- Continue to work on reflection sections and assessments (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
February 27, 2012
Present: Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Tracy, Chris, Glenn
Discussion:
- Unit planning checklist
- Only units that have been completed need to be done (so far)
- Grade level planning documentation: various
Action:
- Continue to develop planners (Mandala and Tracy)
- Work on developing planning documents as requested (G3 team)
- Reflection sections of The Wheel and Home Sweet Home (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress with regards to completion of planners
February 20, 2012
Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn, Helen
Discussion:
- Mandal's planner modifications
- Weeks 4, 5 and 6 focus
- Science standards: how to incorporate - rock cycle and making bricks
- Specialist integration: Brenda making houses. Ensure this is documented on the planner
- Mural for G3 gallery walk
- Summative assessment ideas: 2D or 3D (or the option of both)
- UAE from above video
Action:
- Put UAE from above video onto Netvibes page (Glenn)
- Transfer planning onto planner (Mandala)
- Develop a checklist example (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Look at resources that need to be gathered/developed in preparation for the final weeks
- Review next unit central idea?
February 13, 2012
Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn, Helen
Discussion:
- Communication: importance of communicating effectively
- Glenn's needs (!): someone to take on the role of being the 'planner person' - kindly taken on by Mandala
- Review of planning process v planner requirements: adding an extra page to the planner that provides a weekly overview of what should be covered
- Inquiry: Feedback from Mandala about the T+L workshop - need to adopt an inquiry cycle; ideas for PD; basic philosophy
- Requirements for integration - differing ideas/approaches and what we need to do to work out what's best within our context
Action:
- Work on getting planning onto planners (Mandala and Glenn)
- Continue to develop unit ideas (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review and continue planning
February 6, 2012
Present: Mandala,, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Steven, Glenn (Helen: absent)
Discussion:
- Pre-assessment: can it be designed so that it gives more indication of what the kids actually know going in to the unit
- Development of section 4 activities
- International day organization and integration
- Review of resources from (Glenn's) structures unit
- Neighborhood walk idea
- Develop and share rubric with students - make learning expectations clear and explicit right from the outset
Action:
- Home Sweet Home planner to be updated with ideas generated thus far (Glenn)
- Pre-assessment organizer: different types of homes (Glenn)
- Continue to discuss/generate activity ideas that relate to the lines of inquiry and central Idea (G3 team)
- Develop rubric (or at least criteria) (G3 team)
- Contact Abdul Ala about having Google Earth pushed onto school computers (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review unit progress
- Continue to develop section 4 and discuss ways to get reflection sections
January 30, 2012
Present: Mandala, Helen, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn
Discussion:
- Current unit progress - finishing up activities and summative assessment role plays
- What needs to be done: activities (section 4) and reflection section of The Wheel unit
- Summative assessment and foci for Home Sweet Home unit: booklet that breaks down Central Idea criteria into manageable components and is filled in throughout the unit - will we have paper resources to sustain such an idea?
- Review of ideas from Wednesday's (collab. planning) meeting
- Let's not bite off more than we can chew
Action:
- Home Sweet Home planner to be constructed: including ideas generated thus far (glenn)
- Reflection comments from Wednesday (Glenn)
Next Meeting:
- Review Home Sweet home planner progress
- Discuss ways to get section 4 and reflection sections completed
January 23, 2012
Present: Mandala, Lindsay, Chris, Tracy G, Glenn (Helen: no cover)
Discussion:
- Refinements to summative assessment task: each group to take on one type of technology and represent it throughout the 4 time periods.
- Assessments developed for 2 lines of inquiry
- Timeline for unit to be re-arced for next year so as to ensure the incorporation of the 3rd timeline effectively
Action:
- Activities section (4) of planner to be completed (G3 team)
- Assessment tools to be generated and sent to Glenn/placed into the unit resources folder (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress
- Review assessment tools
- Complete section 4
January 16, 2012
Present: Chris, Mandala, Lindsay, Helen, Tracy G, Glenn
Discussion:
- Finalizing reflection section of OTWWG planner
- Support staff appreciation day - does it/can it happen?
- Developing summative assessment task: include a reflection component that students complete as the role plays are being done, as well as an expository writing piece
- Development of Pictorial reflection organizer
- Writing pieces that will be/can be incorporated into this unit: letter writing and expository piece?
Action:
- Continue discussion about writing challenges (G3 team)
- Next week's tasks where possible (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Perhaps break into 2 groups: one to work on transferring unit activities (section 4) from group planning to planner; the other to work on a rubric and other assessment tasks (relating to the lines of inquiry)
January 9, 2012
Discussion:
- Review of unit timeline
- Web resources on Netvibes page
- Break up into 2 groups - one to work on getting the planning info onto the planner and the other to work on the reflection section of 'Off to work we go!'
- Review of summative assessment task
- Discussion about the end for a balance of activities that develop understanding of lines of inquiry
Action:
- Send teacher questions to Glenn (Mandala)
- Transfer activity ideas (from flipchart planning) onto unit planner (Tracy, Mandala, Chris)
- Complete reflection section of OTWWG unit (Helen, Lindsay)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress, plan for anything that needs to be prepared
- Start reflection section?
December 12, 2011
Discussion:
- Weekly unit breakdown: modified central idea and extra line of inquiry (whether all inventions are beneficial)
- Chindogu: Japanese art of useless inventions
- ENS Netvibes page
- Focus: reflection section or filling out the planner
- Discussed time periods and how related to UAE it should be
Action:
- Reflection section of Off to work we go (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Continue to fill out planner/work on assessments
December 5, 2011
Discussion:
- Review of previous week's collaborative planning session
Action:
- Open up unit as per weekly overview plan
Next Week:
- review progress
MINUTES OF GRADE 3 COLLABORATIVE PLANNING MEETING
WEDNESDAY, 23 NOVEMBER 2011
__
Present: Helen, Lindsay, Mandala,
Rana, Nabeilah, Ghenwah (Arabic and UAE teachers)
Aaron (Music)
Brenda (Art)
Anca (PE)
Apologies: Tracy
Alaa (AAL Teacher)
Nathaniel (IT)
Phillippa (Drama)
November 14, 2011
Discussion:
- Unit progress and what needs to be done
- Specialist integration - how successful has it been this unit
- Consultation visit: what it will involve for the G3 teachers
- Display plans for Thirdgradeville
- Planning for next unit: how to prepare
Action:
- Speak with Aaron about how well he was able to integrate for this unit (Helen)
- Send Glenn the weekly breakdown for the unit (Tracy G)
- Review planner for 'Bubbling with Inspiration' and think about what needs to be prepared - it's a new unit so it will likely be a lot.. (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review specialist integration success
- Discuss ideas for next unit (review)
- Consultation visit questions (and answers)
- Unit progress
October 31, 2011
Discussion:
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 'You've got a friend': 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
- How to complete the planner from here. (see below)
Action:
- Send assessment tools used to Glenn (Helen)
- Look at the remaining sections on the planner and add (G3 team)
Next Meeting:
- Review progress of 'Off to work we go'
- Decide on assessment tasks - delegate...
October 24, 2011
Discussion:
- Assessment tasks for Off to Work
- Development of summative assessment rubric (draft)
Action:
- Look at suggested activities (section 4) and possible assessments in the context of the lines of inquiry (section 3 - bottom). Decide on how these activities can fit in with standards, and hence assesments for Q2 reports (All teachers)
Next Week:
- Review unit progress, modify planner to reflect 'Grade Threeville' activities, and finalize assessment tasks