Meeting+Agendas

Agenda for 1/17/2011

1.) Reflecting on the work last week: What insights did you gain about your own work or someone else's that you feel is worth remembering?

2.) Video

3.) Exemplar: Close reading

4.) Evaluation of program: Please let us know how this mini-course went for you. Was the length of time useful? Should the course be longer or shorter? What insights/ideas/questions are you walking away with? To what extent did this course provide you with the opportunity to think and learn more about content area literacy issues and Common Core issues? Do you have any specific plans to implement our work/your thinking into your curriculum?


 * Agenda for December 6th **


 * Session 2: Writing **


 * 1.) Working with the assigned article: **

What are some ways in which you use writing to learn in your content area classroom? How do you assess this writing?


 * 2.) Saturday Seminar debrief – what was memorable? How might this impact your classroom? What might you want to try in your classroom? **


 * 3.) Video -Building knowledge in the disciplines, **


 * 4.) Analysis of writing standards handout pp. 76-79 - What is clear? What is unclear? **


 * 5.) Charts – What am I doing? Where do I need help? How might I apply someone else’s work/methods to my own classroom? **


 * Homework: Try (or bring) a sample of student writing for a mini-museum on our next meeting. **

**Agenda for November 22, 2011**
3:30 -4:00: Signing in, logging on, and a question: The Common Core: **//What is your experience with the common core? What are you excited about? What are you nervous about?//**

4:00 -4:15: Sharing and introductions

4:15 – 4:30: Reading and writing in response to the Introduction: QAR – If you had some questions for the commissioner, what would they be? Read the introduction. . . what questions does this raise for you?

Essential Question

- What text - where are the models that students need to read?

- Need to redefine text for content area - science text can be tables and graphs; and social studies can be cartoons, photos...

- Who is defining the college and work expectations?

- How can we help our students become "attentive readers?" Do we have some tools/strategies to help students reach this ideal?

-How will be bridge the gap between the Standards and technology? Challenges and benefits?

- College and career readiness? Is the major focus the college readiness?

- Are the Standards going to get rid of social promotion?

- Vocation?

- What happens to special ed. students who don't meet the standards at the same rate?

- Why are we not teaching basic reading/writing skills?

- How can we do this everyday?

-How can I help students do deep reflective reading and writing in the short period of time I have?

- What international models?

- Where does the parent play into all of this? (curricula outside the school?)

-Are we preparing students in isolation?

Watching the Common Core Intro Video - What other questions are raised? What questions are answered? How does the video compare to written page in transferring information?

(These will function as some of our group's essential questions.)

4:30 -4:45 Sharing and recording the questions.

4:45- 5:00: Reading pp. 2 (rationale), 3 (types of reading and writing literacy), 4 (what’s not in the Standards), 5 (expectations)

In these readings, we can identify main ideas, but also, we can begin to consider/define what literacy in the content area means.

5:00 -5:15: Share out from small groups.

5:15 -5:30: Additional questions recorded

5:30 -5:45: Reading p. 73 What’s clear? What’s unclear? Reading for Thought - What ties in do you see between the article, "Writing Across the Hidden Curriculum" and the Core Curriculum? Writing is coming up next time.