Content Collaboration

Entrance Slip Please complete the entrance slip concerning learning targets for our department and place them in the provided folder. Jackie will compile all responses.

Before Strategy to engage with the learning target (content/text): Making Personal Meaning from Learning Targets As a lesson or unit is beginning or being introduced, ask students to respond to the following four prompts:  In my own words, I think that the learning target is about the following:  I already know the following things related to this learning target:  I think that the following vocabulary words are related to this topic:  I have had the following personal experience (in school or out of school) that will help me with achieve this learning target:

Resources  The Notebook  The Website

Collaboration Time

Modified Affinity Mapping   Ask the question (next slide) and request that participants write one idea in response per post-it note. Instruct them to work silently on their own.   Split into groups (of 4-8). In silence, put all post-it notes on the chart paper.   Reminding participants to remain silent, have them organize ideas by “natural” categories. Directions might sound like this: “Which ideas go together? As long as you do not talk, feel free to move any post-it note to any place.   Move yours, and those of others, and feel free to do this. Do not be offended if someone moves yours to a place that you think it does not belong, just move it to where you think it does belong — but do this all in silence.”   Once groups have settled on categories, have them place post-it notes on chart paper in neat columns. At this point, ask them to converse about the categories and come up with a name for each one.   Have the groups pick a “spokesperson” to report their ideas to the larger group.   Jackie will compile the big ideas from each content area and share all ideas with our PLC.

We are seeking content area solutions to the reality of the copy situation. Individually brainstorm ways in which our PLC can conserve copies. Write one idea per sticky note. Please contribute ideas, not complaints. We all know the problems, this is all about solutions within our collaborative teams and our larger PLC.