TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Overview of Plan

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Team Members:
Tina King, Bob King, Sue Smartt, Terry McDonald

What is your role within your team?
„h Facilitate the TEA Associates growth and learning „h Provide polar resources and networking „h Provide opportunities to make presentations at a local, state, and national level „h Facilitate the development of polar activities

What professional growth goals do you and your team members hope to reach through this partnership?
„h Integrate disciplines: Reading, Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies „h Connect disciplines to polar research „h Increase knowledge and continued learning „h Grow personally and professionally „h Share information, ideas, activities, and concepts

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)?
„h Develop and find resources to share with classrooms „h Develop list of Web sites and books for polar research and information „h Encourage inquiry-based investigations along with research

Mentoring Plan (Revised from Orientation)
Since my TEA Associates have changed teaching assignments this past year, we will facilitate future growth and learning by utilizing their expertise and individual strengths to meet the needs and interests of the teacher and students.

Sue Smartt: Media Specialist will work to bring the Polar Regions and research to school libraries. We will work to build resources: Web sites and books to integrate reading and science.

Terry McDonald; formerly a sixth grade science teacher, will bring this love and understanding of science to her seventh grade math students. My goal is to integrate math with science as often as possible when developing activities. Students need to learn different forms of measurement, and they need to measure often. Science lends relevance to the math being learned from a textbook.

Bob King, high school computer and math teacher, is also teaching physics this year. Our goal is to connect physics to the other sciences and disciplines with the Polar Regions and research. Science is understood best when one science shows a connection to other sciences. Earth science helped me realize why I needed to learn biology, chemistry, and physics. Students must see this connection in order to understand the whole.