welcome mentor certification training session g

Welcome Mentor Certification Training

Session G

• Sign in & wear your nametag.• Greet each other• Grab a bagel & some coffee• Sit anywhere you want

Know D P•How to profile two students

•Deepen understanding of action research

•Know how to navigate the DOE website

K Do P–Reflect on your lesson

–Examine the portfolio handbook

–Examine Miss I Walk the Line’s portfolio

–Connect action research and student profiling

–Gather info about action research

–Visit the DOE website

K D Procedure–Small/Large group discussions

–Self-reflection presentation

–Table Share

–Traveling Trios

–Marker Boards

–Jigsaw

Sharing ReflectionsTable Share

• Share your lesson plans • Share your reflection to the

lesson that you taught

• Limit to 10 minutes per person

Instructional Design Rubric

• Rank yourself on the rubric

Add to your Accordion Folder

• Lesson Plan

• Lesson Reflection

• Instructional Design Rubric

Profiling a learneraka: Highlighting two students

Miss I Walk the Line

• Read page 4 and 5 (Three students)

• Read page 40 (The Students)• Read page 87 (The

commentary on evaluation)• Skim pps. 41-86 for

examples of student work

Handbook Directions for Profiling Two Students

• Find in your handbook the directions for highlighting 2 students

• Compare/Contrast with the others at your table

• Did Miss I Walk the Line meet the requirements of your handbook?

BreakTake a 10 minute

break!

Be prompt!

What do these acronyms mean?

• LRE• LEP• ENL• ESL• GT• MOMH• MIMH• EH

•ADD

•ADHD

•NCLB

•NKND

Brainstorming Activity

• Think of the two students who would be good to profile

• Choose students of different needs or ability levels

• Portfolio goal - to demonstrate adaptations/ modifications that you make for your students

Descriptive Review

• Physical Presence and Gestures

• Disposition

• Relationship with peers and adults

Brainstorming Activity

• Think of the two students you will be profiling.

• Draw a line dividing your paper in half.

• On the right half record adaptations you will make for the students you have chosen

Traveling Trios• Get into groups of 3• Number off 1…2…3…• Share and discuss the

adaptations you have listed.

• Write down new ideas that you might use on the left side of your marker board.

Revisit your student profile

• Now briefly make note of the adaptations you would make for those individual students

Homework for January 18, 2006

• Highlight two students using the format from your handbook.

• Teach a lesson where you made adaptations for these 2 students

• Reflect on the lesson and how the adaptations affected the learning of the highlighted students addressing the prompts in your handbook.

Surfing the D.O.E. Website

Pick up a computer from the

mobile cart

Booting Up Your Computer

• Type in: Generic• There is no password - leave it blank• Get on the internet

through Internet Explorer

• www.doe.state.in.us/dps

• Distribute cards

Navigating the DOE Website

Using your blue card

explore the different

sites listed

Lunch

Bon appétit

Only 17 More Shopping Days ‘til Christmas

Let’s help Jane create a shopping

list

Jigsaw• Read the article• Join a new group• Each color must be

represented• Share the main ideas of

your article with the entire group

Action Research Reflection

Please complete at least five of the “starter” questions!

How do I decide on a

topic for action research?

Four Corner Discussion• Share your

sentence starters with your peers

• Listen for new ideas that may be appropriate for your class

BreakTake a 10 minute

break!

Be prompt!

Action Research Project Model

Share

&

Reflect

Brainstorming Activity

• SIMPLICITY

• ALIGN with “Starting Points”

Four Corner Discussion• Share your

research ideas with your peers

• Listen for new ideas that may be appropriate for your class

• Name

• Action Research Project

• How will you evaluate the project?

Five W’s and an H

• Why are you collecting the data?• What exactly are you collecting?• Where are you going to collect it?• When are you going to collect it?• Who is going to collect the data?• How will the data be collected

and displayed?

Homework for January 18, 2006

• Action Research Proposal

Action Research Project is not due

until February 22nd

Journal• How do you

think action research will impact the beginning teacher?

Program Evaluation• Respond

• Remember your homework!

• See you January 18th