Thursday, February 4, 2010 PUDONG HS VC 216
Proposed Agenda Please browse the Departmental Philosophy, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Agreements pages to the left.
1. Jigsaw read the sections of the Article, considering the following to report out (15 minutes):
• What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?
• What do you Agree with in the text?
• What do you want to Argue with in the text?
• What parts of the text should we Aspire to?
2. Report out bullets 1, 2, and 3 (10 minutes)
3. Collectively discuss bullet 4, round robin, 30 seconds per participant (10 minutes) What parts of the text should we Aspire to?
4. Debrief the process (5 minutes): Did it give you a comprehensive enough understanding? What about the the facilitator? Participants? Process?
10:30 AM Continue work from above (11:00 - AHL out)
12:00 PM Lunch, campus tour (as desired)
12:45 PM Continued review of Standards & Benchmarks- ID Essential Learning Targets
Move into Unit Development (vis a vis, content) as appropriate. Strongly recommend development in Atlas or in a shared google doc linked here: (click edit to modify).
2:15 PM Progress report out and clarify next steps for PD Days
3:00 PM Finish; Shuttle to Puxi departs
Next Steps:
Receive Team feedback; share questions, concerns, and hopes in "Discussion" tab above. Please let our 10 Aspirations & the Task Force's Philosophy & Essential Agreements be our guiding principles for all decisions or impasses. Please make modifications in a different color for easy recognition in thegoogle document
Consult the 21st C Skills Standards and ISTE Nets on the Standards and Benchmarks page, remembering the "Position Statement" was written in the last century.
Over the holiday, I will crosswalk the primary & intermediate standards for review prior to our chek
March 15th Video Conference (Admin VC (PX) and MS Conference room (PD)
Unit-writing meeting tentatively scheduled in Puxi for Wednesay, March 31st, to be confirmed March 15h.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 PUDONG HS VC 216
Proposed Agenda
Please browse the Departmental Philosophy, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Agreements pages to the left.
8:15 AM Coffee, Greetings
8:30 AM Greetings, Connections, and Shared Reading
Modified 4A Protocol:
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/elementary
1. Jigsaw read the sections of the Article, considering the following to report out (15 minutes):
• What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?
• What do you Agree with in the text?
• What do you want to Argue with in the text?
• What parts of the text should we Aspire to?
2. Report out bullets 1, 2, and 3 (10 minutes)
3. Collectively discuss bullet 4, round robin, 30 seconds per participant (10 minutes)
What parts of the text should we Aspire to?
4. Debrief the process (5 minutes): Did it give you a comprehensive enough understanding? What about the the facilitator? Participants? Process?
9:00 AM Philosophy, Essential Agreements, Enduring Understandings
Mixed grade level teams, e.g., preK, 2, 4; K, 1, 3, 5
At the end of Grade 2 (5), students in Social studies will . . .
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATLSovmANWnpZGZjNWc5Z2dfNDNmdGN6bm5oZg&hl=en
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Continue work from above (11:00 - AHL out)
12:00 PM Lunch, campus tour (as desired)
12:45 PM Continued review of Standards & Benchmarks- ID Essential Learning TargetsMove into Unit Development (vis a vis, content) as appropriate. Strongly recommend development in Atlas or in a shared google doc linked here: (click edit to modify).
2:15 PM Progress report out and clarify next steps for PD Days
3:00 PM Finish; Shuttle to Puxi departsNext Steps: