512+Agenda+-+7.24.13

Goals:

 * Become familiar with course expectations, goals, and technology
 * Identify and implement specific strategies to cultivate professional relationships with students
 * Access appropriate curriculum standards for your subject area
 * Explain the purpose and characteristics of high-quality, challenging objectives

Agenda
9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome & Introductions (If you weren't here and could be anywhere, where would you be?)
 * Contact List
 * Notetaker - Kathy
 * Photographer - Jeni
 * Reviewer - Katherine

9:15 - 9:45 - What have you learned so far?
 * Knowledge**
 * Diverse backgrounds of students affect how they learn.
 * Relational pedagogy.
 * Constructivism.
 * Involve parents/families.
 * Adolescent development.
 * Culture of poverty.
 * Take an active role in student lives.
 * Curriculum standards.
 * Middle school reform.
 * Team teaching and interdisciplinary teaching.
 * Every child is different - blank slate.
 * Adverse childhood experiences.
 * Classroom management (assertive, positive, democratic).
 * Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
 * Culture: Demographic and socio-economic.
 * Place-based; community-based.
 * Behaviorism: Positive and negative reinforcement.


 * Skills**
 * Use smartboard.
 * Use Prezi.
 * Jigsaw.
 * Socratic seminars.
 * Finding educational resources.
 * Direct-instruction lesson plan.
 * TIme-management.
 * iMovie.


 * Dispositions**
 * Empathy, validation of what matters to students.
 * Avoid sarcasm.
 * Culturally-sensitive.
 * Student-centered.
 * Don't take things personally.
 * Non-judgmental.
 * Flexible and open-minded.
 * Open and seek collaboration to improve teaching.
 * Sense of humor.
 * Patience.
 * Genuine.

9:45 - 10:15 - Introduction to the class
 * Activities & Expectations
 * Technology (wiki, GoogleDocs)

10:15 - 10:45 - NTSG - Cultivating professional relationships with students
 * Introducing yourself
 * Sharing level 2 information
 * Notice the best
 * Set appropriate professional boundaries

10:45 - 11:00 - Break

11:00 - 11:45 - Curriculum Standards


 * Culture of Teaching**
 * Perspectives - what teachers assume/think about products/practices.
 * Products - things that teachers use.
 * Practices - what teachers do with the things they use.

**Consider:** Is the standardization of education a step forward or a step backward?

 * Standards movement: Toward an equal education.
 * What needs to be taught?
 * Consequences: Positive and negative.


 * Standards and Assessment**
 * __Common Core__: National curriculum
 * K-12
 * Currently Math and English
 * Subject specific literacy (history, science)
 * Thinking skills and concepts.
 * Shows you where to go; it's up to you to figure out how to get there.
 * __HSPE__: National assessment


 * Standards vs. Objectives**
 * Objectives (Targets/Goals):
 * ==What are we going to do __today__ (in this lesson) that is going to get us a step closer to that standard?==

1. Find the standards documents for your subject area. Open the appropriate PDF. Find and read the EALRs. If you are math or English, use the Common Core. 2. Copy the EALRs for your subject area. 3. Select two grade levels to review. Copy three example GLE's for each grade. How do they connect with the EALRs? 4. Go the website of the professional organization representing your subject area. Find any standards/curriculum documentation. Read enough to get a good feel for the curriculum advocated by this group. How do these standards compare with the EALRs and GLEs for Washington? 5. How do the state and national standards compare with the Common Core ([])? What relationship do you see between these three sources of curriculum?

11:45 - 12:30 - Objectives & Bloom's Taxonomy

>> **Learning Goals for a Lesson:**
 * Familiarize yourself with Bloom's Taxonomy
 * Writing an Objective
 * Tile Game
 * If we have a goal, then we also need a path.
 * Purpose:
 * Focused Teaching: Helps the teacher stay focused and deliberate about what he/she is doing.
 * Relevancy: Understand that there is a purpose for the activity.
 * Connection to assessment
 * May not reflect the reality of the moment...
 * Objectives shouldn't be too broad or too specific. They should be:
 * Descriptive
 * Measurable
 * Achievable
 * Purposeful
 * Memorable
 * Communicating Learning Goals - https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/making-lesson-objectives-clear
 * Objectives Activity: Go to the lesson plan sites below. (Browse the objectives/targets for 5 lesson plans in your subject area. Copy the objectives onto a separate document (include the link to the plan). Evaluate the objective and rate it as poor, satisfactory, or exceptional. Explain why you chose that rating.
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * []
 * Possible Formula -
 * SWBAT + action verb + specific content [+ format + degree]
 * I can
 * Practice using this text as subject matter - []
 * How do you know if students met the objective?

12:30 - 1:15 - (Working lunch) Writing standards-based, measurable objectives (You try it.)

1:15 - 2:15 - Practice: Communicating Objectives

2:15 - 2:45 - 21st Century Learning & Housekeeping

2:45 - 3:00 - Closing Thoughts

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 * For next class:**
 * Professional Engagement - reSearching Skills
 * Spend about 90 minutes exploring these sites and other related questions. Be able to demonstrate that you can do the things listed at the top of the page. (Notes are, of course, encouraged!)
 * Before next class, post an "aha," question, or comment on Thursday's agenda.
 * Prepare a 2-minute introduction that you could use to introduce yourself to your students. Be prepared to share tomorrow. Be creative and captivating!!
 * Photographer - post images [|here]
 * Reviewer - Prepare a 5 minute review activity/presentation to begin Thursday's class.
 * Snacks for Thursday -