Miscellaneous
Sample PLC Schedule for one year
Meeting 1
Activities
What will participants do?
Tools
What materials/tools will we need?
Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Successes and Questions (opening)
- Sorting reflection pieces (from last year) → gets at describing research theme/long-term goal
- What does this research theme look like at each dimension? (activity)
- Brainstorm teacher moves that could help us move toward long term goal
- Use reflection pieces from last school year to develop a long term goal for the year (/multiple years)
- Name 1-2 short term strategies to try in classroom between now and next meeting
Homework: Try out the instructional strategies and come prepared to reflect
Meeting 2
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Reflect on what you tried - what did you do? How did students react?
- Watch video using Observation Guide
- Brainstorm teacher moves
- Need video
- Instructional Strategies document
- Need video
- Instructional Strategies document
Homework: Try out the instructional strategies and come prepared to reflect & invite a course team colleague into your classroom to gather data on your strategy for you
Meeting 3
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Reflect (using TRU) on what you tried - what did you do? How did students react?
- Identify math topics that are challenging to teach/challenging to learn, come up in a different course, etc
- Identify volunteer to video in
- Reflection graphic organizer
- Revisit long term goal - turn into a research question
- Identify a math topic for Fall Research Lesson Study Cycle
Homework: Try out instructional strategies. One person has lesson videoed
Meeting 4
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Beforehand- share google doc so participants can type in reflections on instructional strategies, start meeting by reading...what questions does this raise for you about research theme
- Looking at TRU dimensions, which dimensions are covered in research theme and theory of action? Anything missing?
- Look at standards and progression documents related to math topic
- Watch video of instructional strategy
- Define the research theme
- Construct a theory of action
- Decide on math topic to understand unit it falls in
Homework: Unpack unit of math topic (Discussion Guide)
Meeting 5
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Watch video of instructional strategy
- Discussion on the math
- Student engagement conversation - why are students disengaged?
- Decide on summary statements of what we’ve learned about 3 Things so far and student perseverance
Homework: Decide on math task
Meeting 6
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Do math for purpose of informing planning of opportunities to build TRU
- Do the math of the research lesson together
Homework: Use feedback from dept to write your research lesson plan
R e s e a r c h l e s s o n
Meeting 7
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Reflect on first research lesson cycle
- Determine next steps
Homework: Plan a lesson with attention to the Mathematics Dimension and bring back a reflection [capture video in 1 or 2 people’s classrooms]
Meeting 8
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Reflect on lessons that they planned and taught
- Watch video
- Identify a strategy to try that will help students interact with the big idea of the lesson
- Video clip → look fors from observation guide
- Connect math dimension to research theme → what are students persevering on? Is it worthwhile?
- Identify a shared strategy to focus on
Homework: Identify an upcoming unit (teaching in April) that you and your course team buddy want to focus on; try the strategy
Meeting 9
Activities
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Reflect on how strategy went
- Course buddies discuss what the big idea of the unit is and land on a research lesson lesson → name 3 experiences students have to have to get at the big idea
- Unit planning materials (same questions from planning & reflecting doc)
- Happy Pi Day!
- Work to design a whole unit, rather than just a lesson that encompasses the strategies we’ve been working on to help students access the big idea
Homework: Calendar unit, including the 3 experiences that students need to have to get at the big idea, [possibility: video clip where students are engaged in a math task that was designed with our goals in mind and we unpack at next meeting by answering question: did task design help students access big idea?]
Meeting 10
Activities
What will participants do?
Tools
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Outcome(s) of Meeting
What will participants walk away with?
- Do math of research lesson (unmodified task to start)
- Discuss implications for task design based on big idea and how students will need to persevere through the task
- Selected conversation guide questions from at least The Math, AOI, and Access
- Research lesson task
- Help planning team prepare!