418+Agenda+-+5.2.17

1:50 - 1:55 - Welcome
 * Notetaker: user:hcharlton
 * EdTPA assignments graded
 * Remember to unpack the questions to see what they are really asking
 * Lay everything out-be very specific, align all the tasks, have the thought process visible, refer back to your previous answers
 * Some people are still confused about syntax vs. discourse
 * Syntax is almost always sentence frames, grammar, or math (ways organize table)
 * Discourse is everything else-features of certain kind of text, formality of the writing
 * Am I focusing on sentence frames, grammar, sentence level organization=syntax
 * Everything else=discourse
 * **Be sure you've completed everything on LiveText!**

1:55 - 2:20 - Final Text Talk (Cassie & Griff) 2:20 - 3:00 - Workshop and work on curriculum projects-**guidelines for individual reflections available on the wiki** (about 300 words per response) illustrate with specific individuals, justify claims, have to finish project before completing, should informally cite the textbook (book and page number when relevant), can write about just the module you worked on, presentations are more of a show-and-tell or infomercial model
 * Should work alongside studnets-allow them to have input
 * Connection helps with willingness to participate as well as retention
 * Use your expertise to help students become proficient
 * Building framework-deepest layer (social and cultural characteristics, things from outside of school)
 * Academic language can help minimize the achievement gap
 * Teach students how to get most out of the school system
 * Be aware of content-specific academic language
 * Inter-disciplinary teaching helps with retention
 * Model language you want students to use
 * Reinforce things-continually use it
 * Be prepared for teaching to be hard
 * Not just teaching content, teaching students many real life skills
 * Chapters 1-2 never assume what students know
 * Chapters 3-4 you need to explicitly teach and practice academic language in order to retain it
 * Chapters 5-6 talk through knowledge in a social setting constructs meaning and transferable knowledge
 * Chapters 7-8 writing is just as important as reading, students should talk about what they're reading (use pre-reading)
 * Chapters 9-10 using student input to increase their ownership in their learning
 * See main page on wiki for instructions for the written reflection
 * Curriculum will be posted on the wiki. I'll create a shell once I know some more information from your group.
 * May 5 (midnight) - final curriculum project posted
 * May 9 - presentation and written reflection due (upload to BB)
 * 418L - Be sure you've completed all requirements on LiveText! **Log hours!**