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=** Week 5 PLC: **** Studying Teaching Practice in Professional Learning Communities **= // [Note to PLC Leaders: ////Make sure that you have read the PLC Assignment on our Assignments page so you fully understand your role and requirements as a Leader for this class meeting.//

Start copying right below this line and paste into a new page linked to your PLC page. Remember to delete all of these PLC Leader notes and add in what you are required to add!]

PLC Meeting Location: Cite-lab at the University of Houston PLC Meeting Time: 9:00 am

[Note to PLC Leaders: make sure you tell groups how much of this plan you all will do together and what, if any, parts—such as the Engage and Explore sections—that members will do on their own ahead of time

. There is also a portion of the Elaborate section—reading and viewing Modules 4 and 5 of the QUEST Teacher Research Initiative that you might want to have members do ahead of time. Consider where you are meeting—if you will not have internet access or separate computers, you may have them do this ahead of time.]

Hour 1
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.)
 * //ENGAGE//**

//[Note to PLC leaders: Post to your Group space a second reading, resource, or website for your team to explore in order to broaden or deepen member understanding of studying teaching in collaboratively in groups. (One suggestion: [])]// []
 * //EXPLORE//**

Hour 2
//1. What are the advantages for both teachers and students for having studying grops?// //2. What could be some of the implications for future work place? (based on your current quest ll classroom experiences)// //3. How often would teachers have to meet in order to see improvement in both students learning and teacher planning instruction? (30 minute block doesn't seem long enough)//
 * //EXPLAIN Open ended video questions://**


 * //ELABORATE//**

First, take turns discussing the data you have collected so far on your Child Inquiry. These questions might guide your conversation:
 * Who did I choose?
 * What did I see?
 * What does it mean?

Next, it is time to analyze the data you have collected, or in other words, figure out what is going on with this student! Either individually, or in partners, take some time right now to read and listen to Modules 4 and 5. Once everyone has gone through these, discuss. Finally, the Inquiry #2 assignment requires you to select a teaching practice of your cooperating teacher to study—something that seems to work or something that doesn’t seem to work or something that has just caught your eye. Could be:
 * Grouping
 * Presenting
 * Classroom management
 * Communicating
 * Technology use

As a group, make a list of teaching strategies that you see used in your class. Take turns formulating a “wondering” about one strategy. How can your PLC group help you to initiate, analyze, and write-up this inquiry?
 * Grouping-- The teacher arranges the students desk in a U shape in order to start discussions and observe students academic level. Then based on the observations, he arranged the students desk into groups of four. Each group has a high, medium, and low level academic students.
 * Presenting--The teacher uses real life applications, so the students can connect easly with the concept and activate prior knowledge.
 * Classroom management--The teachers uses different strategies such as, seating arrangements, community roles and duties, and positive reinforcement.

Our "wondering" strategy is about presenting technology in different lessons in the classroom. Our PLC group discussed different technology resources that are available in our SBTE classrooms.

Hour 3
1. As a group, reflect on what you have learned today about studying teaching in collaborative groups.
 * //EVALUATE//**

2. As a group, draft a brief statement (approx 1-2 paragraphs) of what you learned or new understandings you came to during this discussion. What did you agree with/about, and what did you not agree with/about? How do you KNOW you learned and grew?! Post this statement to your PLC page.

3. As a group, please look at the Assignments page for the description and grading rubric for the Inquiry #2 assignment. Now is the time to being Inquiry #2, selecting a teaching practice of your cooperating teacher to study. The format is the same as your Child study, and you should use what you learned through the five [|QUEST Teacher Research Modules].

4. 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?

**Extension Activity**

 * As a group, discuss about the topics you would like to pick for your video.