418+-+Agenda+-+3.3.16

1:15 - 1:20 - Welcome/Agenda
 * Notetaker: Julie Henling - gnilneH eiluJ user:JulieH17
 * Reading Log(s): [[image:url.jpg width="74" height="50"]]
 * Reports from the field
 * Alex had two successful teaching demonstrations!

1:20 - 1:45 - Look at edTPA AL models
 * Using rubrics 4 and 14, what would you score these edTPA examples?
 * It's important to know the difference between a three and a four. On Rubric 4, a four example includes specific examples of targeted use of vocabulary, whereas a three is more generalized
 * Use the language of the rubrics to justify your answers
 * Claim, evidence, interpret the claim in light of the evidence. Move on.
 * Ben and Julie (me, myself and I) are very harsh graders
 * We can do this!
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYkACVDFmeg
 * __**3's GET DEGREES**__

1:45 - 2:30 - What it means to read

Classroom Demonstration: Anny just put something on the board that looked like a mixture of Russian and macaroni. I can recognize three words: 4 and 1/3 (it appears twice). What is this text? Perhaps it's a recipe. Perhaps it's informational. Perhaps it's religious. Perhaps it's time we all learned another language. How do we know what it is? Or how can we guess? Why is it not a novel? We're pulling off background information....it would be too weirdly formatted to be a novel, Gladys thinks it's a recipe because of the way it was read out loud. Probably not a phone book. Now there's an infographic - we're going with it's not a novel anymore, and definitely not religious. The 1/3 is not represented in the graph!? It's Czech! And if you have a really good friend and they're Czech, you can call them a Czech-mate Wait wait wait...is it a recipe? Something about a piece of paper. Original Text came from a website - IT IS A RECIPE for Apple Cake! Matt's volunteered to make it for everyone next time. Thanks, Matt! Gladys and Alex are genii (plural of genius) and will be the first to eat this delicious apple cake on Tuesday.

**Point of Activity:** We didn't know one word, and some of us were able to figure out it was a recipe. The rest of us are going to fail in Czech class. This teaches us that tone and intonation (extra-textual) features of language. Comprehension is more than looking at words on a page. Phenology - the way we actually pronounce words. Go Gladys' mom! When interacting with a text, we bring our prior knowledge to the page. __**PECTOPAH story**__ Once upon a time, a university president went jogging in Russia. He saw a sign that said Pectopah and used it to mark his place. After a while, he realized that Pectopah is everywhere! All over the place! Turns out, Pectopah in Russian does not sound anything like "pectopah." It actually sounds like restaurant because Russian is Cyrillic. The university president then fell to the ground, slowly army crawled into the nearest 'pectopah' and began to sing for mercy. He was eventually rescued by a large murder of crows. Thankfully, he was not killed and resumed his position as the university president. He did, however, order an executive order to remove all restaurants from the university. The students were not pleased because they were starving, like in the dystopian young adults novels that are everywhere. They eventually overthrew him and then he moved to Russia to study prior knowledge of text and lived the rest of his life in constant fear of Pectopahs. Reading is the process of decoding letters and using prior knowledge. What are possible instructional implications when we want students to read a complex text in our discipline? What type of scaffolding would make sense?
 * Using pictures as well as words that actually apply to the text.
 * Setting up a text
 * Using graphic and charts in math (line, sign, that's all fine!)
 * Talk about it, talk about it, talk about it (cue that song from Grease or that other movie that I can't remember)

T – Mar 15 DUE: Zwiers, chapter 6
 * Housekeeping: **


 * Text-Talk Organizers: Abby, Lauren

Th – Mar 17
 * DUE: //Holler,// chapters 4-6
 * DUE: Zwiers, chapter 7
 * Text-Talk Organizers: Annie, Katie, Alex