Week Two PD Meeting Agenda

Professional Development Agenda

Week Two

July 12, 2010

8:00-9:30

Room 310 INV - (3rd Floor of Center for STEM Ed Building) - Campus Map

OBJECTIVE: To work collaboratively with your colleagues and develop your ideas about a lesson you plan to produce at the end of the summer RET program.

• • Please watch this video about collaboration

  • Please be ON TIME for this event

  • No coffee or breakfast will be available (there is a coffee shop - Peet's Coffee - 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 small groups of three/four individuals that teach the same content area (as closely matched as we can). You should come with a synopsis of your laboratory work thus far as well as your ideas for a lesson plan (see the RET Weekly Journal Prompts). Also, you want to be ready to assist others in exploring ideas about their area of interest in lesson development. This collaborative activity should be productive for you as well as the members of your group. I would ask that you spend no more than 30 minutes discussing each person's individual lab/lesson. This will allow us to summarize ideas from all the groups at the end.

The goal of TODAY'S activity is to narrow down a goal or objective around which you would like to focus your lesson plan. Instructional pedagogy calls this the backward design process. Start with the target, then build the lesson to support that learning objective. During the week following this meeting you will have time to flesh out and get additional resources, activity instructions, protocols, multimedia resources, etc., for your lesson. You can use the word lesson plan template found on your Google Site to fill in this information. 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.

Here are your partners for the day -

Biology Working Group 1 - Diana Cost, Tim Dimario, Juanita Shaffer

Biology Working Group 2 - Kellie Burtch, Michael Romano, Arielle Saavedra, Mark Casto

Chemistry Working Group 1 - Gregory Banks, Margaret Farrar, Harriet Page, Meaghann Galdos,

Math & Physics Working Group 1 - Ardian Mici, Erin Marie Flanagan, Chris Kertyzak, TJ Picanco

Engineering & Comm College Working Group 1 - Khuloud Sweimeh, Nora Linskey, John Savage, Rob Winston

Engineering & Comm College Working Group 2 - Jacques-Antoine Jean, Sam Perez, Shamsi Moussavi, Paul Marques