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=** Week 5 PLC: **** Studying Teaching Practice in Professional Learning Communities **=

Please do everything in red at home before the meeting. This will make our meeting go much smoother. We are looking at our child inquiry 1, and starting to look at our child inquiry 2. There is a video to watch in the engage section as well as read and listen to module 4 and 5. There is a lot to do but I look forward to meeting with you on Friday morning.

PLC Meeting Location: Mariana's Apartment (Is close to Dulles Elementary) Mariana's Phone Number (713) 416-8005 PLC Meeting Time: Friday 9-12 1025 DULLES AVE APT 936 STAFFORD, TX, 77477-5745

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.)

Please explore this link. []
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Hour 2
What do you think you could learn most from these study groups? Do you think schools should set a time aside for these study groups? If so, when? If not, why? What can these study groups do to learn more about how students learn?
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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?

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