pasadena+girls+friday+9.24

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Pasadena Girls PLC Meeting 9/24, UH Campus =====

==== Hour 1   ==== ==== //ENGAGE// Please view the video below as an anticipatory set for today’s lesson, to get your attention focused on using Inquiry to study Teaching Practice in collaborative groups:[] (seems to take a while to load and displays very small, but is worth it! Approximately 15 min.) //EXPLORE:// ====

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==== Hour 2  //EXPLAIN// ====

==== 1. When is the right time for teachers to meet and discuss their student's learning/ When should these study groups take place? In other words, should it be the teachers' responsibility to make time or should the school make time for them? ====

3. When having grand conversations, what are some ways to ensure that students who are shy or quiet become involved in the conversation while still leaving the class in charge of the discussion?
4. Is it possible to have too much cooperative learning? If so how often and what are some reasons to justify answers?

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__ Some of our favorite Teaching Practices we've noticed __ - Bingo Dots as a reward for behavior / can be taken away when needed - Team Points for Table Groups - Groups with the most points receive free time on Fridays - Promethian Board - Teacher can pull up text books and practice activities, very interactive - Ipod Touches for testing - teacher's record testing grades on Ipod touches provided by school (south belt) - Give me 5 (eyes on speaker, ears listening, hands and feet quiet, sit up straight, mouths closed) for when students are not paying attention - "Safe Places" in the room, rather than time-outs - Small group pairing, students support each other, also builds social skills - Class discussions promote positive and close learning community in the classroom



Hour 3

//EVALUATE// Just like the video clip mentioned, teachers spend so much time focusing on the students that sometimes they forget to focus on themselves. PLC/ planning groups are a great way to get together with fellow teachers and take time to reflect on management strategies, students, teaching ideas, bounce ideas off one another and just remind each other that they're not alone! As students working separately in a challenging semester, it's helpful to remember that we're also working together. Supporting each other is a big help during this time!! That's one way we all learned and grew this week - we KNOW we're supported. While we agree that teacher planning/ meetings are great, they can also easily get off topic and sometimes it's hard to find the time for them every week. As a group, we decided that it would be great for teachers to enter the meeting with an agenda of items that must be covered to make sure everything stays on track. As for time- teachers already have too much to do during their day so adding an hour meeting when they could be getting an hour's work of worth done can be frustrating. We decided that meeting for an 45 minutes to an hour one week then the next week for thirty minutes gives teachers time to get things done in the classroom while still having time to be supported by their fellow teachers.

Individually, please send your PLC Check as an email to Caroline so that she can get you recorded as "attending" in the gradebook:


 * What/Who worked well in today’s PLC meeting?


 * What/Who didn’t work so well in today’s PLC meeting?