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Sunday, August 5, 2012

A "Flipped" Faculty Meeting

Our first faculty meeting of the school year is scheduled for Thursday, August 9th at 8:00 a.m. in the media center.  I am determined, to the extent possible, to make these scheduled times - when we are all together - opportunities for us to collaborate, examine instructional practice, discuss student work and LEARN TOGETHER.

To that end, I would like us to focus on the topic of "Learning Goals and Scales" and do so in a "flipped" fashion.  The district has provided a PowerPoint to address these topics, but I do not want to spend valuable time reviewing a presentation.  Instead, I am going to ask you to do that BEFORE you come to our professional development session on Thursday.  The modified presentation (I deleted a number of slides and added a few of my own) is posted below.  I will also send it via e-mail.




Once you have had the opportunity to look over the PowerPoint, please take time to review a few reflection questions on the shared Google Doc (link provided via e-mail), add your thoughts, or comment on any (or all) of the questions, and record any questions you still have about learning goals and scales.  Consider this a virtual discussion.

If you feel like you have a decent handle on these concepts, please consider sharing an example via the "Share to Dropbox" link provided by e-mail.

Finally, I would like everyone to bring ONE learning goal to Thursday's session.  This should be a goal for something you plan on teaching, but for which you have not yet written (or finalized) a scale.  You will be working with this learning goal on Thursday.

To summarize...before Thursday's professional development session:
  • Review the PowerPoint presentation - Learning Goals and Scales
  • Read over the shared Google Doc (link sent via e-mail); add your thoughts, leave comments and questions
  • If you have a good example of a learning goal and associated scale, post it via the e-mailed link
  • Bring ONE learning goal - for which you have not written a scale - to Thursday's session

Thanks for modeling the process of life-long learning!

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