TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Team Meetings

Stoyles
2003

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Date: 2/15/2003
Duration: 6.5 hours
Location: House of Amy Stoyles
Parcticipants: Amy Stoyles, Linda Fryer, Tin Nguyen, and Shelbi Weaver

Goal(s) of Meeting
To plan our upcoming Antarctic BTE, write up unit plans for current unit, and begin planning for upcoming strands "(Wo)Men at Work" and "American Dream".

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Planned Out Antarctic BTE: times, wrote invitation, came up with invitation list, planned activities and generic times. (white out simulation in the morning due to ice, songs of the Morning CD for social studies along with game, English game, Research station tours and displays of webpages for math, snack station (learn to return), poetry station, and survival station.

Wrote up/corrected unit plans for Exploration

Men at Work Unit- planned out career day BTE- list of possible jobs, general schedule, and invitation. Research careers in engineering verses famous people in English and science. Math adding career component to flip book.

American Dream- Amy doing transporation aspect- land, air, and sea

FCAT- state science test. Where we are good/where we need help. Shelbi and Amy planned a important meeting with Guy

Resources: computer, Inter-act simulation, TEA orientation materials

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
We spent a long time discussing our upcoming state test and the needed changes to ensure progress. Linda (former math department chair) had a lot of good points as math has been tested on FCAT for some time. Debated the issue of teaching integrated science verses separate life, earth, and physical. Pros and cons to both. We have been in a struggle to teach our engineering benchmarks and theme and still teach to the state standards.

Science department must meet as a team and really go over what we have done and zoom in on our gaps. Even if it means changing the grade wide strands...

Use of technology- only talked how we want to display kid's websites during research station BTE, and possible technology needed for upcoming career day.

Additional reflections:
Good day- felt good to discuss some of the problems that we are having within the science department and hopefully have some ways to make improvements.

Goal(s) of Meeting
End of the year units, end of the year events, and goals for next school year

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
The first half of the meeting was spent planning the final BTE and making unit plans. Discussed very briefly the 8th grade awards/graduation (we all teach the same kids and needed the time to do so. Reviewed our first year of planning multi curric. units together- what wored and what didn't. Came up with goals for next near and ideas for future grants/grant sources

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Pedagogy- discussed the idea of student run conferences to document progress- pros and cons

Use of technology- ideas for increasing the incorporating technology in upcoming units. (Use of school page website design vs composer) student run presentations etc.

Additional reflections:
Seemed to be good year- hoping for an even better one next year, now that we have an English teacher on our team and a full time ESE teacher.

Goal(s) of Meeting
Strategies for teaching ESE students and co-teaching with an ESE teacher in an inclusion classroom.

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Today's meeting started with a school board employee conducting a workshop/info on inclusion teaching and strateies. During the second half of the day we were allowed to interact, set goals etc. with the inclusion teacher that will be joining our team next year. (She will be co-teaching with all of us and teaches one class of pull out science.)

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Pedagogy- inclusion and co- teaching

Additional reflections:
I think we are really going to like working with Cindy

Goal(s) of Meeting
Brainstorm ideas and start writing the NGS grant and Jordan Foundation Grant

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
National Geographic offers educational grants to teachers. We spent the day developing an multi currc. unit centered on the theme of exploration and discovery. The unit has a heavy emphasis on social studies and science and incorporates the naitonal geography standards. The unit involves pieces of mapping navigation, polotics of exploring etc. We hope to get GPS, compasses, maps, classroom resources, small student globes, etc.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
If funded this project will allow inquiry based activities, will work across the curriculum, and will provide additional technology for Harllee Middle.

Additional reflections:
Really hope we get this!

Goal(s) of Meeting
Initial preparations for the beginning of the year:

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Planned the first week of events (kavolik get to know yous)

Reveiwed and fixed team procedure book

Switched schedule of events/unit plans so that exploration unit would fall while I am in Antarctica

New reward plan using the theme of the OZ

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Pedagogy- ITI instruction, reward system

Process of science- Marcia's role when I am gone, science fair and the nature of science and parallel experiments that they will be doing while I am in the field.

Additional reflections:
Looking forward to a great year!

Goal(s) of Meeting
Planning inquiry lessons for upcoming BTE

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Spent the evening planning the inquiry lessons for next week's Civil War BTE. (As a team we do a lot of thematic instruction) The science portion will involve inquiry lessons on civil war medicine.

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Pedagogy- inquiry based lessons/activities Nature of Science- incorporated into science lesson Tech- not addressed in this session

Additional reflections:
I think this BTE will be much better than last years

Goal(s) of Meeting
Teacher inservice

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
My group and I signed up to take a class on using a program called school page to develop student and teacher websites

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
Use of school page to develop websites for students/parents to use The idea of students being able to showcase student learning through the creation of their own webpage.

Additional reflections:
This is a great program and we are exciteda bout having our kids use it.

Goal(s) of Meeting
Full day of planning with the help of an ITI coach

Overview of Session (e.g., resources used, discussion points, next steps, etc.):
Review of ITI concepts/reminders- TJ

Planned out exploration (big Antarctic) unit using ITI kavolik model

Planned BTE to Desoto Memorial (part of the exploration unit)

How did your team address pedagogy, content, the process of science, and the use of technology during the session?
ITI thematic instruction, Marcia will have the kids use school page to develop the Antarctic reserach websites while I am gone

Additional reflections:
Have a much better understanding of the ITI process. We are looking forward to having my experience overlap this unit and know we will ALL get a lot out of this experience