pre-inservice response (11-4 staff development)

Our next professional development inservice will be on the Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC). In an effort to better address our staff in regard to our collective knowledge base concerning the ICC, please respond (in groups of 2 or 3) to the following via this blog:

1. List your group.
   
2. Briefly summarize what the ICC is (limit to 1 paragraph).
   
3. Pose 2 questions that you have about the ICC (no duplicates, read what others are posting first).

rolling the dice with reading strategies in your classroom

So what is working in your classroom with direct instruction of reading fluency strategies? How do you know? Please give specific examples.

reading concerns in your classroom

1. Give a specific example of a student's (or a group of students') struggles with reading in your classroom this year. Do not name the student(s).
2. In your opinion, what would fix the problem?
3. Read what your colleagues are posting about reading concerns in their classroom -- feel free to add your comments.
   

9-23-09 Improving Adolescent Literacy Inservice

Our reading for yesterday from Improving Adolescent Literacy described metacognition on page 13 as "thinking about one's thinking." It also said metacognition "is being aware of what one knows and does not know." So...where are you after our first couple of inservices? What do you know that you didn't? What areas are still unclear? More importantly, what are you going to do that you haven't tried?

To make this a learning experience, it's best to see these ideas in action. Who's trying some of the strategies suggested? Can you use the Flip Camera to tape a bit of it? Let colleagues know when you're going to be employing any of the strategies described so they can come in and visit. Plan to share with us on the blog and during our inservice time.

4-1 Staff Development

While we're not quite all the way through the book yet... the chapter presentations have been very well done! So at this point we would like you to answer the two questions below AND comment on at least two postings. You will have until the end of April to complete this assignment.

Through the first eight chapters of How to Grade for Learning:

What have you learned?

What needs to change?

3-18 staff development

Assignment:

1. Find a blog, article, source of information, or something out there relative to your content area and add it to your "reader" -- Google, Pageflakes, etc...
2. Post a comment on the EC Perspective blog about what you've found of interest. Feel free to add a referenced quote, link, picture, or whatever.
   

TQ Session 1

Teacher Quality Professional Development Assignment (2/25/09):

1. read chapters 1 & 2
2. post 1 question or comment -- first come, first served (no duplications and that means you'll have to read through all the posts)
   
3. respond to at least 3 postings -- to a question, comment or response to your post(s)

Rules:

• think "professional development"
• (simply) agreeing or disagreeing does not a post make
• have fun
• staff will vote and be awarded for "best post" at the next session