221+Agenda+-+2.11.16

9:25 - 9:30 - Welcome and Agenda
 * Notetaker:

9:30 - 10:00 - Debrief Tuesday's class 10:00 - 10:40 - Discuss baseline observation forms
 * What did you learn from supporting the ELPA test?
 * Tech-headphone problems
 * Testing-sitting next to friends
 * Leaving- bathroom breaks
 * Test content- hard/appropriate?
 * Students had good attitude about test
 * Interested in GU/college
 * Diversity of levels
 * Attention span/focus lacked towards the end
 * Coping by disengagement
 * 1) Organize/facilitate testing
 * Encouragement/Positive
 * Mints given to students
 * Freedom-allowed students to go for walks/bathroom/water breaks
 * Thanked students for focusing/respecting neighbor in tense times (specific praise/recognizing positive instead of ridiculing negative)
 * 2) Test itself (application to teaching)
 * Adaptivity
 * Recognition of bilingual students (acknowledgement)
 * Ways to get attention (lunch threat)
 * Countdown used to get attention
 * Tone of voice (firm but warm/pleasant and not yelling)
 * What did you learn from the school services tour?
 * Attendance-how many students are absent everyday
 * High poverty rate effected the whole school (common theme)
 * Community of staff
 * Passionate about students
 * School nurse days (only works 2 days a week)
 * IRE
 * Teacher checking student understanding
 * Fishing for response
 * Teachers have answers, students don't
 * Unnatural conversation
 * Characteristics of a conversation:
 * Flow
 * Two-way
 * Exchange in ideas
 * Depth
 * Characteristics of an instructional conversation:
 * Learning purpose
 * Perspective
 * Teacher guides
 * Uncover student understanding
 * High-level of skill required
 * Purpose but organic
 * Common themes
 * Ownership
 * Back/forth dialogue
 * Let compliment stand on its own
 * Developing skill at eliciting student thinking and having an instructional conversation
 * Practice
 * Connect to questioning

10:40 - 10:50 - Break

10:50 - 11:15 - Introduction to Text-Based Instruction
 * Pre-during-post handout - [[file:Pre-during-post.docx]]
 * Model Lesson - http://gonzagateach.wikispaces.com/Model+-+Pre-During-Post
 * Video - The future of textbooks - []
 * Text - [|Suffrage] - []
 * Song - Math rap? - []

11:15 - 11:25 - Feedback on PET

11:25 - 12:05 - Written reflection and individual conferences
 * In 1-2 pages, respond as specifically as possible to these prompts, illustrating your ideas with examples from Garry.
 * Since beginning your experience at Garry, what have you learned about teaching in general?
 * What have you learned about yourself as a teacher?
 * What have you learned about middle school students?
 * What specific instructional strategies and/or professional ways of communicating and interacting with students have been the most effective for you?
 * In what particular ways do you want to improve your professional capacity and skill set over the next month?