Global Engineering and Technology PLC meeting

Subjects for discussion:

November 14th, we will be visited by a landscape architect during advisory for all sophomore advocates, and then take the rest of the day for extended PLC planning.

Mike said that three freshmen girls did not get their articles for the study, so he sent them to Mary McGinty to get briefed on how to access the data systems, but it looks like they will not be prepared for the first review tomorrow, November 1st.

On Monday, November 5th students will receive their question sheets for article analysis, which gives them a full week to compose their responses. Students will be notified that they should, by all means, seek clarification from their teachers. Monday, November 12th their responses are due, and on that Wednesday (November 14th), we will get together to grade articles and plan the next lessons, and identify areas where we need to re-teach. Willard will further his attempts to contact Jessica Miller, intern English teacher for Spring semester, to ascertain if she will be able to join us on the Wednesday meeting (November 14th).

We discussed how various teachers will address the reading aspect of this project, so that students will be producing a piece of writing once a week as they progress.

Mike suggested an assembly for the "Alliance for Climate Education" for next Friday, November 9th or Monday, November 12th, second block or fourth block.

This would happen in the recital hall or the auditorium. It seems that the Friday date will be the better day.

Mike said this assembly fits well with our community and the grants that Mike is working on.

We decided to table our PLC show case presentation planning until the next PLC meeting when we can have everyone here.



 

PLC Showcase

At the end of our semester of work, all PLCs will be showcasing their work at the Wyandotte High School PLC Showcase on Wednesday, December 12th in the Social Hall.  The showcase will be a public demonstration of our learning, collaboration, and results.  Each PLC will showcase work that reflects how your learning and collaboration has impacted student learning.  Each PLC is encouraged to be creative and innovative in their demonstration (student examples would be highly encouraged); however, please be sure the following are addressed through your presentation -
    PLC Focus

Collaborative Actions   

Summary of PLC Learning

Impact on Student Learning

Connections to Future Teaching and Learning

In addition, all staff will have an opportunity to visit each demonstration during the Showcase.  Many outside guests will also be in attendance.  

If your PLC requires any kind of additional resources, please submit any requests for those materials via the comment section to this blog entry by NOVEMBER 9th. You will receive these materials by or before your November 28th meeting, so you will have AT LEAST two weeks to work on organizing your demonstration.

G.E.T. Big 11 Lake/ Watershed Examination Project- PLC  October 24th


Julie brought up that the SLC's girls didn't get the intro into data bases for searching articles to examine for the Big 11 writing project.

Julie will pull the girls before next Thursday so that they can get their articles.

Articles will be due November 1st.

We will give the students the article questions on November 5th GET SMART global integration questions, with the answers due on November 12th -at 8:00 am.

Julie delineated the questions for this assignment. Lesley suggested that it would be very helpful if they contained data. Between Julie and Lesley came up with the prospect that students in follow-up pieces to this, they collate sources of data to determine qualities of similarity and how they could be expanded upon.

On Monday, November 19th we will get together with the students and go over their questions, focusing on things they need help with.

This continues from the previous meeting: the request to take Wednesday, November 14 off (the entire day) to continue planning for this project next semester. Jessica and Carolyn (tentatively) will be asked to join us, as they will be taking a great number of freshmen over the next semester.

December 3rd-ish, Lesley will beging teaching data in the science classes.

December 5th or the 12th or one or the other, depending on what Ms. McGinty can accommodate.

Julie asked if there is something we would want to plan today that we could do with the sophomores next semester. Lesley suggested we use the sophomore advisories to continue with the Big 11 lake project, which would be a sensory garden with the Kansas School of the Blind.

Brain Storming for Big 11 Project

• Logistics/materials
• Connection to the Kansas School of the Blind
• Creating interactive terminals at Big 11 lake
• Contact the Kansas School of the Blind
• Talk to Leslie Simons getting a landscape architect for college and career
• Talk to officials from Kansas City, Kansas to discuss the proposal to make changes to Big 11 lake
• Stay with sophomores at this time
• Eventually, to submit this plan to the city
• Get landscape engineer to explain their specialty to students, with the hope that maybe this expert will become a mentor to our students.

We adjourned, in preparations for our SLC meeting.

PLC meeting October 17th, 2012

Blog Entry, Wednesday October 17, 2012

We discussed how we would go about getting a planning day for our many up-coming events.

We decided to ask for Wednesday, November 14th (December 5th as as suggested back-up day) as a day for an extensive planning session.
The PLC decided to plan on our next move with the freshmen.
The freshmen were introduced to the database, and Elizabeth's class was able to get one. Josephina's class needs more instruction on how to acquire an article.

We decided to move on to having the freshmen analyze their articles according to the same analysis sheet we used to introduce them to reading scientific papers.
Julie, suggested that we get Mary McGinty to do follow-up work on data bases to help students who haven't found an article to do so.

• On Monday block one Julie will go to the combined classroom to help students find their articles, with a due date for having an article in hand on Thursday, October 25th. 
• On October 31st they will read, annotate and look up vocabulary for their articles.
• By Thursday, November 1st, they will have read their articles, and Julie will collect them to check for annotations, and definitions. Julie will pick them up at this time.
• Articles will be passed back to the students on Monday, November 5th.
• On Tuesday, November 6th, Dr. Hotz and Ms. Hornberger will remind them that they will be reading  their articles and annotating them on Wednesday.
• During Wednesday, november 7th they will work on, and complete their 2nd quarter article review.
• Dr. Hotz, and Ms. Hornberger will pick them up for grading on Thursday, November 8th.
• On 28th of November, during advisory, students will get their books for their writing assignment.

We reviewed how the field trip went

Dr. Hotz discussed establishing a timeline and benchmark for planning our next steps in the process of designing this project.

We discussed how the collaborative process was working, and we examined how this group of freshmen had the lowest percentage of students not passing in a long time.

Discussed visiting Big 11 lake, but we decided to table this until the next meeting.

Proceeded to SLC/ROBOTICS meeting.