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TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Team Meetings
Kolb
2002
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Date: NOTE--Report updated through 2002 and submitted January 6, 2003 Date: Jan. through Dec. 1999
Duration: Total mentoring hours for Rick Griffith in 1999: 35.5
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA and Sandra Kolb's home.
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith, Rolf Tremblay, Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
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:
Date: March 28, 2000
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Brainstorm for new activities
Begin outline for one activity
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Developed an outline for an inquiry-based ice core activity.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Roger Bybee’s THE FIVE Es
TEA activities template
TEA website
Topic:
Development of new activities
Additional reflections:
Date: April 1, 2000
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Sandra Kolb’s home
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Develop draft for another activity.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Rough drafts for two activities now completed (ice core and polar chains and webs).
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Roger Bybee’s THE FIVE Es
TEA activities template
TEA website and internet search
Topics:
Discussion of studies incorporating both poles, ice coring and biology.
Selection of a second subject for activity development.
Additional reflections:
Date: May 27, 2000
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Sandra Kolb’s home
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Continue to develop the two rough drafts.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Further writing and development of our two activities (ice core secrets and polar chains and webs).
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
TEA activities template
TEA website and internet search
MANICE document
Topic:
Drafts of ice core and polar webs and chains activities
Additional reflections:
Date: Sept. 9, 2000
Duration: 4 hours
Location: Sandra Kolb’s home
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith, Rolf Tremblay, Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Introduction of Rick to Rolf
Provide Rick with a broader view of the TEA Program
Discuss Rolf’s questions about Antarctica and preparing for his coming field assignment there
Discuss possible classroom activities and preparations for Rolf’s absence
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Rick and his classes will follow Rolf’s journals
Discussed details of the TEA Program and field experience
Discussed Rolf’s questions
Discussed classroom activities for during and after the field assignment
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
TEA manual
TEA website
Topics:
TEA field experience
Classroom preparations and activities
Additional reflections:
Date: Nov. 22, 2000
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Sandra Kolb’s home
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Review activities and discuss ways and when to implement them into the existing units of study
Schedule dates for classroom visits
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Preplanning
Dates scheduled with topics and activities discussed
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
TEA website
Topics:
Planning for the implementation of our new activities
Additional reflections:
Date: May 7, 2001
Duration: 8 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kol
Goal(s) of Meeting
Preparations and implementation of TEA activity, Nutrition Expedition.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Initial implementation and planning of student materials and supplemental resources.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Nutrition Expedition
TEA website and Internet searches
Topics:
Presentations to classes
Field experience and activity implementation
Planning/preparation for continuation of this activity
Investigated different directions for the activity for 7th grade classes and the design of student materials
Additional reflections:
Date: May 8, 2001
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
Discussion of other possible 7th grade activities in polar science.
Preparations for continued implementation and field-testing of Nutrition Expedition.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Planned continued field-testing and discussed other possibilities of polar inquiry-based activities appropriate to 7th grade students.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Nutrition Expedition and our other TEA activities
TEA website and Internet searches
Topics:
Planning/preparation for continuation of the activity, Nutrition Expedition, worked on possible directions for the activity for 7th grade classes and the materials.
Focus on inquiry, use of the TEA website.
Discussion/brainstorming of other possible polar inquiry activities for 7th graders
Additional reflections:
Date: Nov. 16, 2001
Duration: 8 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
The field-testing/implementation and preparation/planning—how to relate the activity, Polar Chains and Webs, to students’ prior knowledge and their present unit of study.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Focused on initial field-testing/implementation and planning of student materials and ways to link the activity to the existing district science curriculum.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Polar Chains and Webs
TEA website and Internet
Topics:
Presentations to classes (Life Science and Earth Science)
Field experience and activity implementation
Planning/preparation for continuation of the activity, Polar Chains and Webs
Discussed different directions for Polar Chains and Webs for 7th grade classes and available materials
Additional reflections:
Date: January 29, 2002
Duration: 1.5 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
For me to share a new supplemental student reproducible master with Rick for use with our TEA activity, Nutrition Expedition.
To begin our review of school district's essential learnings in science as related to our TEA activities at grade levels 7-9.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
We critiqued the student reproducible master and made some revisions.
We began a discussion review of district essential learnings in science in terms of Nutrition Expedition.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
Our activity, Nutrition Expedition
My new supplemental student reproducible master
District essential learnings in science document
Topics:
Critique and revision to strengthen the Nutrition Expedition student reproducible master for use with Rick’s 7th grade students.
Began discussion of district's essential learnings in science as related to Nutrition Expedition.
Additional reflections:
Date: April 15, 2002
Duration: 2.5 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
To continue our review of the school district's essential learnings in science document for grades 7-9 and align how they are being addressed at each grade level in each of the TEA activities Rick and his colleagues have used with their students.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
We finished the alignment of both Nutrition Expedition and Ice Core Secrets.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
District essential learnings in science document.
Ice Core Secrets and Nutrition Expedition activities.
Topics:
Discussion and alignment of district essential learnings in science to Ice Core Secrets and Nutrition Expedition.
Additional reflections:
Date: April 16, 2002
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
To continue our review of the school district's essential learnings in science document for grades 7-9 and align how they are being addressed at each grade level in each of the TEA activities Rick and his colleagues have used with their students.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
We began and completed our review of Polar Chains and Webs.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
District essential learnings in science document.
Polar Chains and Webs activity.
Topics:
Discussion and alignment of district essential learnings in science to our Polar Chains and Webs activity.
Additional reflections:
Date: June 7, 2002
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
To continue our review of the school district's essential learnings in science document for grades 7-9 and align how they are being addressed at each grade level in each of the TEA activities Rick and his colleagues have used with their students.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
We began and completed our review of To Be Salty Sea Ice or Not to be Salty Sea Ice, That is the Question: An Introduction to Sea Ice at the Polar Regions.
We discussed different directions (brainstormed) for this activity for 7th grade classes and available materials and resources at the Junior High.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
District essential learnings in science document.
An Introduction to Sea Ice at the Polar Regions activity.
Topics:
Discussion and alignment of district essential learnings in science to An Introduction to Sea Ice at the Polar Regions activity.
Additional reflections:
Date: October 25, 2002
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Fairview Junior High School, Bremerton, WA
Parcticipants: Rick Griffith and Sandra Kolb
Goal(s) of Meeting
To continue our review of the school district's essential learnings in science document for grades 7-9 and align how they are being addressed at each grade level in each of the TEA activities Rick and his colleagues have used with their students.
Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
We began and completed our review of Today's Forecast and discussed different directions for its use in 7th grade classes.
Began a discussion of other possible activities we could develop to further address the school district's essential learnings in science.
How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Materials:
District essential learnings in science document.
Today's Forecast activity.
Topics:
Discussion and alignment of district essential learnings in science to our Today's Forecast activity.
Additional reflections:
NOTE: Report updated through 2002 and submitted January 6, 2003
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