Mountain
Park Elementary – Professional Learning Community (PLC) Agenda
Thursday
August 29, 2012
What
to bring: science and
math ideas, curriculum calendars, laptops for planning
Review
Norms
Be Respectful, Be punctual and prepared,
Assume goodwill and be positive, Be fully present, Don’t be “pollution” be a
solutionJ
AGENDA:
-chart of PLC (from
Venables book)
-eat lunch together on
Fridays? Yes, we will try to do this.
-Quiet lunch- kids meet in
room 111, bring a friend/book- ideas?
-Academic assistance- what
do we need help with from special areas teachers?
-vocab list- we need to
send a list to Stacy with words AND definitions ASAP (take off too easy words) Laura will email your word list to you and define the words (relating to our curriculum).
-Benchmark writing- change
genres? Set 4 dates (see below)
Writing:
Oct. 19- "Narrative" writing needs to be finished.
Dec. 14 - "How To" writing needs to be finished.
Feb. 14 - Informational Persuasive writing needs to be finished.
March 29 - Persuasive Writing (and all the others-if they don't pass the other genres have them redo the others and submit score)
Looking at Data
Plan for remediation and
enrichment- Extended Day kids! (be thoughtful about who you send, mainly
reading)
Unit/Lesson Planning –
ELA-nouns, subjects (simple and complete)
Writing - narrative, writing process
Science- Regions of GA unit
·
Pacing
for science (see the curriculum planner page here.......LINK)
·
Share
ideas/activities with warm & cool feedback
·
Technology
Integration?
·
Resources?
Math (in leveled groups)
·
Pacing
·
Share
ideas/activities
·
Common
assessments? (We pulled up the test from the T drive-should our final assessment say "Checkpoints"???) We feel the sample assessment questions are better geared to evaluate unit 1. Could we use this instead?
·
Technology
Integration?
·
Resources?
**ACTION
ITEMS – NEXT MEETING
In
2 weeks- meeting with April Hardy, and on Sep 10th, 11th,
12th Venables will meet with us to do common formative assessments
