Moderate writing or speaking (in preparation for Spring Testing)
Meet with a grade level or dept to look at student work of an ELL
Share unit plan ideas
Revise and improve unit plans
Share or co-plan lessons, instructional strategies . . .
Ask for feedback on a lesson or assignment
Assessments and rubrics
Professional development material
Research on best practice
Blogs, wikis, forums, on-line learning tools
Workshops - share skills, teach new skills to colleagues e.g. IT Art techniques,
cooperative games
Share student work
Create common assessments
Moderate common assessments
Create common assessments
Reflect on student results to guide future learning
Collaborative professional development
Examine a rubric
Discuss progress on student achievement goals
Discuss what and how to collect data that would be useful for better knowing students e.g. length of time at SAS, level of English at entry, cultural background, grade level
Application of current methodology and
Look at assessment data e.g. PSAT, SAT, IB, AP scores, Iowa, DRA, ERB, grades, etc.
Share student projects and products e.g. posters, essays, tests, art, performances
Share ideas about using technology in teaching
Evaluate students' work to find needs
Use tuning protocols to make sure assessments achieve their goals
Develop a collaborative team work ethic
Teachers develop awareness of scope and sequence/continuity and articulation outside of their own grade level or course
Review curriculum, courses, resources and textbooks
K-12 vs. school based or level specific variety of conversations and collaboration
Observation - peer coaching, demo lessons and co-teaching, video lessonsÉ
Discovery learning techniques
Identify/discuss ways student learn
Group analysis of teacher reflections
Curriculum mapping Atlas as a tool for analysis
Share resources
Cross campus conversations blogs, video conferences, face-to-face, Atlas, etc.
Looking@Learning ideas:
Moderate writing or speaking (in preparation for Spring Testing)
Meet with a grade level or dept to look at student work of an ELL
Share unit plan ideas
Revise and improve unit plans
Share or co-plan lessons, instructional strategies . . .
Ask for feedback on a lesson or assignment
Assessments and rubrics
Professional development material
Research on best practice
Blogs, wikis, forums, on-line learning tools
Workshops - share skills, teach new skills to colleagues e.g. IT Art techniques,
cooperative games
Share student work
Create common assessments
Moderate common assessments
Create common assessments
Reflect on student results to guide future learning
Collaborative professional development
Examine a rubric
Discuss progress on student achievement goals
Discuss what and how to collect data that would be useful for better knowing students e.g. length of time at SAS, level of English at entry, cultural background, grade level
Application of current methodology and
Look at assessment data e.g. PSAT, SAT, IB, AP scores, Iowa, DRA, ERB, grades, etc.
Share student projects and products e.g. posters, essays, tests, art, performances
Share ideas about using technology in teaching
Evaluate students' work to find needs
Use tuning protocols to make sure assessments achieve their goals
Develop a collaborative team work ethic
Teachers develop awareness of scope and sequence/continuity and articulation outside of their own grade level or course
Review curriculum, courses, resources and textbooks
K-12 vs. school based or level specific variety of conversations and collaboration
Observation - peer coaching, demo lessons and co-teaching, video lessonsÉ
Discovery learning techniques
Identify/discuss ways student learn
Group analysis of teacher reflections
Curriculum mapping Atlas as a tool for analysis
Share resources
Cross campus conversations blogs, video conferences, face-to-face, Atlas, etc.
Share student work
Share internet resources