PLC Showcase

I was very impressed with the professionalism of all my fellow faculty. They have put great effort in studying their subject, collaborating on their subject, and projecting their ideas into the future. Everyone I met with had real-world, thoughtfully conceived plans for approaching their subjects. There was nothing that was theoretical for theory's sake, and their plans could be implemented by any teacher in this school.

In our PLC we learned how to adjust to our new situations. There has to be a first time for everything. And we now know what activities work best, how to start them, and more importantly, what to tell the kids and how to group them. In other words, we have a model for how to activate and moderate our trips.

Questions one and two contribute to my professional work by maintaining a professional, scholarly atmosphere where I can work with the pride of professionalism with other professionals. I guess I'm trying to say we as teachers need our own school spirit, our own professional guild, our own pride.

What thoughts, ideas and learnings did you take away from the PLC Showcase? 
 - Flipped classroom ideas and to record class discussions and have students grade themselves/reflect on how they did.

 

Thinking back over your PLC work this semester, what were some of the lessons 

you have learned? 

- Paired curriculum planning is very time-intensive 

- We must be more planned/organized for paired curriculum to work effectively

- Students enjoy the opportunity to use knowledge across many classes 

 

How might the information gained in questions 1 and 2 impact our professional work?  

 - The opportunity to try new ideas out with students and continue planning and building w/the plc

No supplies needed?????

I do not see that you have indicated a need for any supplies for the Showcase.  If you are needing something, please see Mr Rivera by Nov 30th, so we can try to accommodate your needs.

Global Engineering and Technology PLC November 7th

Meeting November 7th 2012

These are the items covered:

• Lesley discussed how the business kids on the Robotics team, work on the business work everyday.

• Mike discussed Friday's meeting with the Environmental Sustainability meeting at 1:15 on Friday, November 9th.  He will have a note-sheet (produced by the visitors) for this meeting and the people putting it in will want to do leadership development afterwards.
• Wednesday, November 14th -10th graders in Mike's room 
• Friday, November 16th Lesley and Mike will be gone for KU engineering meeting
• Changed the due date for the article questions to Monday, 19th November-- Need copies of all articles for the planning meeting on November 14th--after advisory for planning data sets
• Discussed where  to send students 3B on November 14th--
• Discussed on what we need to do for showcase, and created our response to Dr. Wright's PLC questions. Discussed what we wanted to present for our showcase.

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.