Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Your To Do List- In a Nutshell


  1. Finish your self assessment - In your PGES folder called "Instructional Walkthrough Focus Area" by your pre observation meeting. 
  2. Upload your major assessments to this folder by your coaching meeting.
  3. Finish your IA Post Analysis-  ASAP so you know what were your bombed questions and the celebrate questions!!! 
  4. Make sure your living IA Post Analysis is linked to our blog--should be there already. 
  5. Finish your re-teach week game plan--You are teaching on Monday!!!!


Easy Enough?

Science PLC Attacks Student Skill Deficiencies! 10.15.13


 

Formative Observations Coming Soon:

LEADER Self-Assessment and Evaluations

In the coming weeks your instructional coach will schedule your first formative evaluation. Generally speaking, you will usually have plenty of notice before the official formative. With that said, all of the coaching conversations and observations are embedded into the formative evaluation process.  Nearly everyone has a PLP and PGP that is living in their Google PGES folder, additionally you will be asked to self-assess on the “LEADER Self-Assessment” document by highlighting indicators and taking notes on the document. This document should be placed in your PGES folder before the formative observation. For those of you that want to get a head start on that process please go to the TNHS PGES page at http://tnhspges.blogspot.com/ and click on the evaluation process that meets your level of experience within the district. 

On Your Own:  IA Analysis Data Review Meetings  

Your living IA Analysis template should be prepared with the quarter 1 IA data and action plan in advance of your next coaching meeting. Please place it in your Assessment Folder for the given course. Your next coaching meeting will focus on the IA analysis data review questions and the steps you are taking in re-teach week.
Data review coaching questions start with:
1.       What major takeaways do you have from the data?
2.       Where do you see the impact of instruction in the results?
3.       How do you want to address the gaps that you see in quarter 2?

As a Team:    PLC Team IA Analysis Review

PLCs this week will revisit the action steps that your team derived during PD on Friday and share how you will review the IA data with students during the week of October 21-25 . I am asking that you each post your IA analysis to your team blog and spend time reviewing and commenting on the analysis documents and re-teach week strategies.  Click here for The Re-Teach Rollout Plan.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Thinking Like A Scientist

By December . . .

We need to come up with 4-5 ways with which students will be expected to "think like a scientist".  Using content-specific language, reading graphs, and identifying "why things are the way they are".


. . . to be continued.

Celebrate Success!!

Celebrating Science GLOWS :) 
1. We accomplished TWO of our IA Goals for Q1
2. Happy and Enthusiastic
3. Work well in a collaborative environment
4. Willingness to grow and step outside of our safety Zone
5. To be vulnerable 

PD October 4, 2013

Strategies of attack: Science Unity
Domain Specific terminology: 
  • Chemistry Content
    • Freshman: Electrons in energy level
      • atoms
    • Sophomore: Valance electrons- the outer octet (8 is great) 
      • electronegativity
      • ionic/ covalent bonds
  • Scientific Method
    • Freshman: Control variable, control group, experimental group.
    • Sophomores: alternative and null hypothesis
    • Junior: null hypothesis, alternate hypothesis and then reflect back on based on experimentation. 
  • Evidence Based Claims (EBCs)
    • Taking the data and making a Claim that can be supported using evidence. (rubric's linked)
  • Common Analogies and Acronyms 

Common Lab Reports (9-12, Non-AP)
  • Purpose (summary of what your doing)
  • Materials- listed
  • Methods- paragraph style (procedure)
  • Data/ Results- include all data tables and graphs collected with a description of this data.
  • Discussion= Conclusion- This is where they can make a CLAIM and support it using the data in their data section. Drawing a conclusion (CLAIM) and supporting it (Evidence Based Claim).

Monday, September 16, 2013

Agenda September 17, 2013

1. Celebrate!!
2. Review Our Norms
3. Vernier Workshops
  • What is this; who would like to participate?
    • Katie- going in November
    • Sam- October
    • -Force Probe Check :) 
5. Major Assessment Tuning Protocol

  • Alignment check
  • Major Assessment Category 
    • Katie- matching, T/F, ER, fill in the blank- little bit of everything. (Unit Test)
    • --In standardized test- how are they tested? What would be applicable? Is it critical thinking?
    • Amy- Unit test- multiple choice
      • Mastery Quiz- EBC
    • Sam- multiple choice, ER, EBC
    • --What is the different between Mastery Quiz and Mastery Assessments?
      • Same Mastery Assessment even between schools, same test, same questions.
    • Warren- Unit test-multiple choice, lab reports.
  • Sign up for a PLC 
    • October 1- Sam
    • Amy
    • Katie
    • Warren

6. Celebrate our Students!!
   **Keep up the Achievement Museum
   ***Display their Work in the Classroom

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Agenda 9.4.2013

Today's PLC will be held in Ms. Warrell's office starting at 3:20

1. Celebrate Success - Data, Data, Data!
2. Review of Norms
3. How should we frame and implement Essential Questions?
  • Review our EQs
  • How can we help our students to see the bigger picture?
4. Incorporating PLAN and ACT skills in our weekly lessons
  • Incorporating the skills into lessons.
  • What can we do? How have we already done this?
5. Until Next time...