Week Four PD Agenda

Professional Development Agenda

Week Four

July 26, 2010

8:00-9:30

ROOM CHANGE: Room 425 SHILLMAN - Northeastern University - Campus Map

OBJECTIVE: To work on aspects of Poster Template and Poster Design Suggestions.

• • Please feel free to bring your LAPTOP COMPUTER

  • Please be ON TIME for this event

  • No coffee or breakfast will be available (there is a coffee shop - Dunkin' Donuts - at the street level of this building)

  • Please plan accordingly - inform your lab that you will be showing up later than usual

We will be working in LAB PAIRS on your laptop computers, therefore, one partner with a laptop is more than enough. You should come with the Poster Template powerpoint (simply template without information is fine) loaded on the machine that will be used this morning. I will explain the use of the template, show you some examples of posters designed in the past, give you some tips for creating and for what I worry about during the printing of posters. Also, I will be asking for RET past members to share "best practices" for poster completion. Here's a website to help you along. This presentation will not take the entire PD time.

I am interested in having RET participants view the great websites created by their colleagues. In addition, if there are individuals in your group that have completed a lesson plan template (and accompanying documents), you can peer review their work before the August 4th lesson plan presentation event. This can be completed on-line by visiting the RET participant's lesson plan website page with whom you worked in the previous two weeks. Then, download the lesson plan. Read it, reflect, and write a response to them. It may be possible to upload your review to their website (I am not sure what privileges you were given, but these can be easily edited if the small group wishes to facilitate this process. If you do have uploading privileges, then give your review a different name or you will overwrite their document.)

EVERYBODY'S working draft lesson plans must be complete by Wednesday and (in whatever condition they are in) should be uploaded to their pesonal Website for review. Inform your group mates when your lesson plan is ready for review with an email. You can pick up posterboards for the Wednesday, August 4th, lesson poster session any time at the Center for STEM.

As always, examples of finalized lesson are available in your binder as well as the following Lesson Plan Website. Feel free to look at what others have developed.