2/12 METC day two

Attended METC conference at St. Charles Convention center.  Presented on Social networking:



Here are my takeaways from the day:

2/12 METC Day 1

Attended METC conference in St. Charles.

Presented on Flipteaching in the classroom

Flipped edcamp kc from cmcgee200

Here are my takeways from the day:

2/11 Best Practices conference, 2nd and 3rd year

Attended Best Practices conference

See Storify feed below:

Met to discuss 2nd and 3rd year teacher meeting!

• Worked on powerpoints and handouts: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/presentation/d/1P8MS32p7kB5nUskhH9C1af1BkV8QGFv6cOiHjrORbB8/edit#slide=id.ga9b4487a_038

2/6 Steger, District LMT meeting

Started the day by picking up resources at Edgar Road

Stopped by Central office to pick up projectors

Picked up breakfast

Facilitated 6th grade curriculum workday.  Determined:

Essential Goal(s)

 Students will investigate interactions between organisms and their environments over time.

Objectives:

1.     Students will be able to explain how variations within a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving, resulting in change in species over time.
2.     Students will be able to explain interdependence in ecosystems.
3.     Students will be able to use models to show the cycling of matter and energy in ecosystems.
4.     Students will be able to cite evidence about how a disruption will change an ecosystem and develop a plan to restore the ecosystem.

Essential Learning Goal:

Students will investigate internal and external processes that constantly change the surface of the Earth.

Objectives:

1.     Identify components and properties of soil and water.
2.     Describe how external (both human and natural) processes change the surface of the earth.
3.     Describe how internal processes change the surface of the earth
4.     Explain how various rock types are formed.
5.     Explain the types of fossils and how they are formed
6.     Use rock and fossil evidence to make inferences about changes on the Earth.

After school headed over to CO for District LMT meeting:

PDC notes on Google Apps: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLeipz_jg6-SySOIdo4WrbU4R3IXZi5TbPq4TM10NTk/edit

Presentation: http://goo.gl/gSwXb

Tech Planning: http://goo.gl/mlG4I

2/5 Edgar Road, Hixson

Prepped for EdcampSTL

• Copied Guest log in
• Copied building map
• Made room signs
• Tec req for projectors
• Created Prize presentation
• Contact Food Service
• Organized Prizes

Prepped for 6th grade science Full day tomorrow

• Organized snacks and drinks
• Copied agenda
• Copied assessments and scoring guides
• put together folders

Worked on Science kit reservations for Quarter 1

Went to Hixson for 8th grade Science meeting

Stayed after for 2nd and 3rd year teacher planning

Went to Target to get a cooler

At home:

• Emails, tons and tons of emails
• Finish quarters 2, 3, and 4 for kit sign ups
• Read chapter 4 of Never work harder
• Starting activity ranking the intelligent behaviors. 
• Make google doc
• Submit Reimbursement from target
• Submit request for materials from Flinn/Fischer

2/4 Steger, ER, PDC

Spent the morning at Steger working with 6th grade world studies.

I helped students with the East Asia project and worked with the teacher on how to revise/improve the project.  Here's the scoring guide as it sits now:

We discussed:

• Letter to parents - too many words, scoring guide on the back, let that speak.
• Guidelines
• One thing as the checklist, calendar for you displayed in the room.  Cross off with them
• Scoring guide focused on the product and not the learning.
• Where’s the reflection?  Where’s the uncovered learning/thinking?
• Video of example of expectation and exemplar, let them score it.
• You make one.
• Phases – Earn cards to move form phase to phase
• IDEA:  Scoring guide paper with blank sections, earn the next phase scoring guide after first phase is done.
• Students read and submit journal entry on what they notice, see and questions they have.
• Checklist is AWESOME!
• Everything including research/journals spaces.
• Why not Wikipedia?  Use it to start, cross reference with others…
• While researching have word or docs open to copy/paste websites and book titles for use with bibme.org later.

Copied for 6th grade Science meeting:

• MS GLEs
• NGSS for Ecology
• Ecology GLEs
• Earth's Process Assessment
• Earth's Process goals

Handled a Edcamp Miscue

Worked on 1st quarter sign ups: http://wgsdq1.signupsheet.com/

- Made accounts for 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter.

Went over to CO for PDC meeting.

• http://www.classdojo.com/
• January 4
• Edline
• TLC
• Opening Day

2/1 CO meeting, Edgar Road

Attended the Coordinator meeting at Central office

Watched "Using the NGSS practices in the elementary grades: http://learningcenter.nsta.org/products/symposia_seminars/NGSS/webseminar16.aspx 

Plotted out work for Summer requests.  Sent email to group regarding requests.

Tentative Agenda to 6th grade science full day next week.

Sent and reviewed emails.