TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Overview of Plan

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Team Members:
Barbara Stonewall, Michelle Clark, Janice Stotts, Arlan Howard

What is your role within your team?
Serve as teacher with field experience and facilitator and equal parcticipant of all TEA team meetings.

What professional growth goals do you and your team members hope to reach through this partnership?
Teamworking skills, presenting activities to our departments and the community, networking with other teachers of the deaf in other parts of the country, enhance our curriculum buiding skills for the benefit of our students, research skills during retreats.

How will you and your team reflect on these goals and on learning and classroom practice (e.g., pedagogy, the use of technology, content, the process of science)?

Mentoring Plan (Revised from Orientation)
Washington School for the Deaf (WSD) in Vancouver, Washington is a school for deaf and hard of hearing students from ages 3 to 21. Most students reside at the school traveling home by bus or plane on Fridays, returning on Sunday evenings. Sign language is the primary mode of communication for Instruction and general communication between students, teachers, resident counselors, and administrators.

Barbara Stonewall and Michelle Clark are the core TEA team members (POLAR BEARS - positive opportunities learning about regions, basic experimentations and research skills). We will meet during school breaks, create goals, extend our professional growth with other teachers of the deaf in other parts of the country, and plan TEA team retreats for some research experience. We will work on incorporating research and polar regions in all age levels: elementary to high school.

In the middle school, we have three teachers (Janice, Arlan and myself). This year, our theme is Polar Regions. Janice as a language arts teacher, Arlan as a mathematics teacher and myself as a sciene teacher will work together and create interdisciplinary activities. Currently, I serve as their science mentor which I create the science curriculum (unit plan, lesson plans, teacher and student materials,, and all lab activities). Janice and Arlan will use my curriculum to teach the science content while I do lab experiments. This requires us to meet frequently. I anticipate this will continue for the next 2 years.

TEA Team member #1 Barbara Stonewall, Science teacher Currently PhD student at Columbia University studying science education & deaf education Grades 5-8: Specialty: Physics Courses taught: physical science, earth science, life science Goals: Hands-on and application in curriculum

TEA Team member #2 Michelle Clark Washington School for the Deaf, Vancouver, Washington Grades: 1-2 Goals: Incorporate Alaska unit during Habitat studies with two other elementary teachers (Pre-K and 3/4th grade)

TEA Team member #3 Janice Stotts Washington School for the Deaf, Vancouver, Washington Grades 7-8: Speciality: Language Arts

TEA Team member #4 Arlan Howard Washington School for the Deaf, Vancouver, Washington Grades 7-8: Specialty: Math