PLC 10.2.12

Mountain Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK THE T: DRIVE FOR THE UPDATED CURRICULUM CALENDAR!

Attending:  Sarah Resudek, Heather Welch, Linda Weikel, Bethany Corson, Laura Brock, Jennifer L’Hommedieu

Not Attending:  Denise Scales, Meghan Hurley, Emily White

What to bring: performance assessment ideas for social studies, curriculum binder with standards and units, Reading/ELA common core unit

Review Norms

Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared, Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a solutionJ

AGENDA:

*Something positive! J

Unit/Lesson Planning –

·          Pacing- look at curriculum map (look at calendar and discuss upcoming end of 9 weeks for writing and reading)

o   Writing- final narratives (topic- “The Magic of a Moment” )

o   Reading- stories and skills? (look at unit 2)

·         Share ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback- Our Government unit

·         Looking at teacher work- Performance assessment for social studies standard element b?

·         ELA – unit 2 informational texts (see curriculum map) We will use the readers during our reading groups.  Bethany has materials we can use for these.  The novel for this unit (And then What Happened Paul Revere) is on order for us and will arrive soon.  Look on pg. 1 of 5 on the Core Curriculum unit to see the non-fiction standards (on the right).

·         Math-we looked at Unit 2 post test options.  We added a few questions to meet the additional advanced standards.   We then checked on pacing and decided on common formative assessment for Friday and summative assessment.

 

• SS-We discussed branches of govt. assessment and came up with common performance assessment.

**ACTION ITEMS – NEXT MEETING:   Math non traditional study guide?