This Week in PLC
Week of February 9
Unit 4 UbD
Monday
Open House
Data Dig
- How will we use this data?
- What actions will we take as a result of reviewing this data?
- How will we know that our actions were successful?
- Additional comments?
Tuesday
Grades Due 8:30am
Points
If English II were to pursue points:
Q: Is there a specific total of points that all team members would have to adhere to, or would a range be appropriate within a six weeks (for example, all team members' classes reach within 50 points of each other).
A: I think there could be an acceptable range for each group within the level.
Q: Can the way the learners receive the points be varied across teachers?
A: I think that the team would need to decide on how many of each type of assessment would be given and then how many points per assessment and then let the teams decide what would qualify under that particular assessment. The assessment may be different in each room, but would be worth the same number of points and address the same skills.
Q: Do the assessments need to be worth the same number of points?
A: See above
Q: How can we ensure that there is some type of comparable weighting across teachers?
A: I don’t think we can ultimately. That would be an administrator who would have to check across the team. Same as it is now I guess.
Q: Is there a number of grades to strive for, or is this a team decision?
A: A team decision with the caveat that there needs to be enough to help a learner be successful, no gotcha grading.
English I:
Q: English I (Barbara and Jennifer) are interested in the answers to the above questions as well to help them decide, but are also concerned about giving the freshmen “another thing” to have to transition into when they get to CHS.
A: I did talk with Melanie today and she was going to go back to the team later this week with responses that match pretty much what I have given you.
Plan
Shelter Drill 1:00pm
Wednesday
iLead Meets - PLC Does Not
Thursday
Professional Learning - Vignette 1
PLC will meet in Alex's room. Sam is out for an Information Literacy Day.
Friday
Feeling generous? Today is the Blood Drive!