Minutes for October 6, 2009

Agenda:

-Welcome

-Welcome to Katina and Cindy again and thank you for your time

-Success Team Meeting November 25th- idea to share with Kathy at our PLC instead...how do we feel about this?

-email Kathy the dates of our PLC and see if she can join us on a date

-Questioning Circles- what is happening at our schools- Ellie

• Post questions on the blog that each grade team is presenting




• Post resources that teachers are using to gather resources

-Astrid and Anastasia will discuss how to organize this

-History of PLC: Formerly always had a book that we were reading, this year not a book connected to it. We have 3 half days covered for release and Katina and Cindy to support us. Continuing on with the PLC model. A lot of web 2.0 tool training in the last year and the year of the Inquiry for SE6 for this year.

SE6 Year of Inquiry

What inquiry questions are schools working on and how is the library supporting this focus?

How are school teams using questioning? Overarching inquiry, 5 over the year

Action: Guided Inquiry, p. 3-5, 14-16

-Fundamental Concepts in the Social Studies and Science Curriculum are important to help us plan guided inquiry questions

-goal of guided inquiry is that students will develop their own questions by the end

-pick one opportunity where you are doing something with one teacher and focus on this

-one inquiry question with one teacher

-modeling in a read aloud the type of questions that are required in an inquiry

-along with everything we have been doing, let's take a look at what is already going on in our schools, understand it, common understanding

-when we are all working towards a goal, confusion will come around when dealing with change

-share our inquiry questions, contribute towards the blog and the wiki, post the questions online to share...Astrid and Anastasia will organize how this is done

How can we use web 2.0 tools to support collaboration with staff and guide student inquiry in the SE6 Planned Inquiry Units?

-Katina will email the presentation on TEL

Minds On (watching), Action (practice, participation, collective intelligence) , Consolidation (reflecting)

-mobi: like a tablet, comes with a pen, kids in group: one mobi to each and share their ideas

-BLOG: great for discussions, building upon knowledge, can be shared and open, question of the week so that the students can answer, K-3 best

-McMurrich JPS: Grade 6 Flight: grade6flight.blogspot.com

WIKIS: culminating activities: grades 4-12

-kinders on the move: healthy living http://www.kindersonthemove.pbworks.com/

-All blogs and wikis that Katina showed us are on our Blog list on the left hand side of our blog

-edublogs are best

-Agnieszka shared her wiki which is also located on our bloglist

-explore the web 2.0 tools to complement the inquiry units

NEXT MEETING

-November 19: 2:30-4:30: Secord

-December 8: 2:30-4:30: Kew Beach

SUGGESTIONS FOR NEXT MEETING:

-sharing of inquiry questions

-bring texts in that support question

-any other suggestions, please email them to Astrid or Anastasia and we will post them