TEA Collaborative Learning Group
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Graham
2002

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Date: February 26
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Washington School for the Deaf
Parcticipants: Michelle Clark

Goal(s) of Meeting
Discuss TEA mentor team responsibilities & activities during my stay in Fairbanks (next week)

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Michelle accepted to parcticipate as part of the TEA team and will meet sometime soon with the other TEA team member.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Dicussed possible activities to use with her 1st graders during my stay in Fairbanks.

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Discuss goals for the TEA team, share activities while I was out in the field, plans for Dr. Jeffries visit in June

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Julia did a unit on Arctic tundra and wolves with her 7th grade language students. Amy did a unit on Circulation and incorporated Arctic living conditions. Michelle did a unit on Alaska and her students studied the weather in Fairbanks and created a graph on daily weather during my field study. Next time we'll meet and confirm goals for the next academic year.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Meet Dr. Jeffries & understand his work with lake ice

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Dr. Jeffries talked about his background and lake ice work. Also discussed his work with Fairbanks teachers and the network with teachers all over Alaska.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Confirm goals, share activities, create new activities

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Created short term and long term goals, present mini workshop (I talked about lake ice data, Michelle discussed about a insulation lesson with 1st graders, Barbara discussed about density with middle school students), share other activities, created a name for our team (POLAR BEARS - positive opportunities learning about regions, basic experimentation, and research skills), worked on timeline for our goals, ideas for long term activity development

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Create Intel projects associated with Polar Regions

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Using technology & help of Intel instructor, we paired up and worked on Arctic unit

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
We had mini lessons on various software and discussed process of unit for different age levels

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Worked on Arctic unit

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Reviewed Publisher, discussed ways to use publisher to preesnt polar topics and for student projects

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Review website design using Publisher, discussed aspects of website to use for teaching and for student projects

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):

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Goal(s) of Meeting
Discussed rubrics for each three student projects: powerpoint, website, and newsletter/brochure.

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Finalized our unit, shared with other teachers

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Content of unit - unit plan, lesson plans, powerpoint presentation, webpage, & brochure of some kind, and three forms of rubrics along with some teacher and student support materials

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Discuss plans for week and after vacation.

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
My position as science mentor begins on December 16th, Janice and Arlan will be using my developed materials to teach content information while I do lab activities and projects. We discussed plans for the next few weeks.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Current lesson is geography, main focus are two regions (Arctic and Antarctica).

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Review responsibilities

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Confirm responsibilities for new schedule next week, review Arctic regions, discussed incorporation of Arctic topics with Globe activity.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Reflection from first day of new schedule

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Discussed ways we incorporated Arctic topics with globe activity

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Discuss CD activity

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Outline a plan for the CD activity

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

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Goal(s) of Meeting
Discuss possible ways to incorporate polar studies in her circulatory unit (middle school)

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

Additional reflections:

Goal(s) of Meeting
Prep for field studies

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Ideas for incorporating field journals in class activities

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?

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