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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.)
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**Second Reading** http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/collaborative.html

Hour 2
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What are other ways that teacher can come together besides a small group?

How important is it for teachers to come together?

What can teachers do to make time for everyone to come together and discuss together?

First, take turns discussing the data you have collected so far on your Child Inquiry. These questions might guide your conversation:
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 * 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?

Using a bell for kids during transitioning. Have student monitor other students, and they receive a ticket. Time how long takes students to transition, and take that time, to take away from fun activities. Teacher goes over rules before a lesson. Redirects students without taking away from instruction.

Hour 3 1. As a group, reflect on what you have learned today about studying teaching in collaborative groups. 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.
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//During our group we realize that as teachers we need to be flexible and consistent. That our lessons will not always go according to plan, and may not always work with one child. That with each student there is a different style of teaching that has to be taught to them. Some students are more advanced, not as advance or on the right track as they should be. We also agree that having some signal whether it be a bell or a clap would be efficient to keep the children on task and maintain a good classroom management.// //Some of us think time-out works and it doesn’t. The argument is that it takes kids from instruction and can cause kids to misbehave. When the other argument it gives students a chance to cool down and collect themselves. We came to the conclusion though that instead of time-out that students should be put in a small work station to work by themselves that way they are still learning while cooling down. Some of us agree with giving students opportunity to monitor other students, some of us don’t. We know that we learned and grew, based on our arguments and insight on the different strategies. How we are attentive to the different strategies used in the classroom.//

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?