1. RCS Middle School Science
PLC Conference
Science
July 18/19, 2017
 Welcome Colleagues 
Daily Schedule
8:30 to 11:30-Conference activities
11:30 to 12:30-Lunch break
12:30 to 3:30-Conference activities
6 hours each day-total of 12 hours
Partial credit permissible
Earn one in-service hour for each hour present

2. Science
Middle School
PLC Conference
Purpose
To provide a forum for middle school science teachers to share their best practices and to discuss pertinent issues about their grade level and subject specific tasks.
Focus: five key tasks:
1) Aligning
How we align our lessons with the TN standards.
2) Teaching
How we teach our lessons about these TN standards.
3) Assessing
How we assess what we have taught.
4) Analyzing results
How we analyze the results of what we have taught.
5) Remediating/Enriching
How we conduct remediation and/or enrichment.

3. General Information Restrooms
Science
Middle School
PLC Conference
Restrooms
Feel free to get up and use the restrooms as needed
Cell Phones
Please mute your cell phones
If you have to take a call, please step out of the room
Sign-In Rosters
remember to sign each day during the break-out sessions
If registered in School Stations, name is on the roster
If not registered, just print and sign on the last page
If unable to stay for the entire day, write hours present
Locations
6th Grade: Room 607
7th Grade: Room ???
8th Grade: Room 806
General Information

4. (started by teachers, maintained by teachers, for teachers)
Science
Middle School
PLC Conference
Event History
This is our 7th year holding this conference
(started by teachers, maintained by teachers, for teachers)
st year, location: Whitworth-Buchanan (3 present)
nd year, location: RSM (13 present)
rd year, location RSM (14 present)
th year, location: RCS Central Office (13 present)
th year, RCS Central Office (about 40 present)
th year, location: SCM (about 50 present)
th year, location: SCM (52 registered to attend)

5. (From DuFour and Marzano) (From DuFour and Marzano)
Science
Middle School
PLC Conference
Three PLC “Big Ideas”
(From DuFour and Marzano)
Big Idea 01:
Our purpose is to ensure that all students learn at high levels
Big Idea 02:
We can and should work collaboratively
Big Idea 03:
We can and should be resulted oriented
Collect evidence (data) and respond to it (remediation/intervention)
4 Key Questions:
(From DuFour and Marzano)
a) What is it we want our students to know?
b) How will we know if our students are learning?
c) How will we respond when students do not learn?
d) How will we enrich and extend learning?