TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Overview of Plan

Hanisch

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Team Members:
Mark Freeling Jason Gunderson Shauna Roberson

What is your role within your team?
Arrange dates/times of meetings; lead email communications; encourage submission of ideas wished to be discussed; begin group discussions and keep them moving in a positive direction.

What professional growth goals do you and your team members hope to reach through this partnership?
Two of the members are new teachers, and one other has just 4 years of experience. The main thing we are all wanting is the opportunity to learn from each other. We have been involved in sharing lab ideas, as well as teaching methods. Our goal is to increase the use of inquiry lab activities and variety of lab activities within our classes. Our second goal is to incorporate the ideas of polar science into our curricula.

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)?
After each meeting, we send an email to the group to share what was good/bad/useful/ and wanted in the future.

Mentoring Plan (Revised from Orientation)
Mentoring Plan for Kim Hanisch TEA - Arctic PO Box 67 Lewellen, NE 69147 Khanisch@esu16.org (308)778-5408

School Description: High school (which is the level I teach at): consists of about 400 students; there is an upper level physical science teacher and a freshman physical science teacher. One middle school: grades 6-8 (as well as 2 small parochial schools) 4 grade schools, which funnel into the middle school. I teach sophomore biology, and an upper level ecology as well as Anatomy and Physiology class. Town Description: population 5000+ in a rural area of Western Nebraska

Mentoring Team: Mark Freeling - Physics/Chemistry Teacher at Ogallala HS Shauna Roberson - 7-12 science teacher at South Platte HS (60 students) Jason Gunderson - HS Physical Science Teacher at Garden County HS (60 Students)

Mentoring Plan Proposal: 1. During first month of school: a. contact teachers, expressing desire to share TEA with them - recruit 3 b. have intro discussion with 3 mentees - sign up as associates, discuss goals, etc c. request emails of 2-3 items they would like discussed in next meeting

2. Monthly: a. 3-4 emails b/t mentees and self b. one 2-hour meeting (agenda based on email requests) c. one 30 min online chat

3. By Christmas 2001 (through use of monthly meetings): a. collect at least 2 ideas from each mentee for data collection activities I could do while in the field and that they would then use during class activities b. each mentee writes a rough draft of at least one inquiry lab involving polar science c. provide 1 workshop through our educational service unit regarding inquiry and research in the classroom

4. Before my Field Experience (Jan - May 2002) - accomplished through monthly meetings a. with mentee's help, provide 2 assemblies for presentations to grade schools regarding ECG and polar science b. group evaluation of 2 inquiry labs involving polar science written by mentees and self c. group evaluation of 1 class activity designed around the use of on-line journals from TEA website d. organize real audio/email sessions to take place during field experience e. use 1 lab from TEA website and share results (both data and success with activity)

5. During Field Experience a. Two real audio sessions with mentee's organized groups b. mentees serve as 'help' people for student/community emails, etc

6. First Year Following Field Experience (2002-2003 school year) a. continue with monthly meetings with agenda based on group's needs b. using data I collect during field experience, mentees conduct comparison lab with students (implement the labs they designed prior to my field experience) c. improve polar inquiry labs d. improve/modify activity previously developed for use of on-line TEA journals and implement e. organize presentation from PI (Robert Sudyam) f. organize school presentations of research and experience in the arctic

7. Second Year of Transfer (2003-2004 school year) - continue with monthly meetings to: a. continue first year transfer activities b. design 2 more labs based on polar science &/or using inquiry methods c. design an activity where electronic communication with researchers in the field is necessary