Creating Essential

Agreements & a

Question Parking Lot

Liberty MS – MYP Professional

Development 2010 - 2011

What do we agree upon in order to create an effective and efficient environment when we meet?

Establishing the Ground Rules – Collaboratively and Through Consensus

A way to focus, express intentions, and make A way to focus, express intentions, and make commitmentscommitments

Will empower your students by making them a part of Will empower your students by making them a part of the law-makingthe law-making

All students should be encouraged to collaborateAll students should be encouraged to collaborate

They should be established by consensusThey should be established by consensus

Agreements are only changed, added, and deleted by Agreements are only changed, added, and deleted by consensusconsensus

How Should They Be Written

Few in numberFew in number

Concisely writtenConcisely written

Refer to how something is doneRefer to how something is done

Collaboratively composedCollaboratively composed

Binding on all participantsBinding on all participants

There is no one way to to get these doneThere is no one way to to get these done

One Way to Focus the Creation Process is by creating school wide rules

But its not the beginning of the year

Do it when you come back from the holidaysDo it when you come back from the holidays

Review them anytime you feel students need Review them anytime you feel students need a reminder of what they agreed upona reminder of what they agreed upon

Review them briefly when there is a new Review them briefly when there is a new studentstudent

Question Parking Lot/ Burning Questions

Place it somewhere where students can easily Place it somewhere where students can easily place their questionsplace their questions

You can ask students to write their questions You can ask students to write their questions on post it notes and place them on the lot on post it notes and place them on the lot

Take time to review the lot and then answer Take time to review the lot and then answer those questions during classthose questions during class

Learner Profile

Again this is an opportunity to discuss some Again this is an opportunity to discuss some very important concepts that are probably not very important concepts that are probably not being mentioned anywhere else in their livesbeing mentioned anywhere else in their lives

They are the traits of a life-long learner…and They are the traits of a life-long learner…and this is not limited to just studentsthis is not limited to just students

The more they are discussed, understood, and The more they are discussed, understood, and practiced the more they will manifest on practiced the more they will manifest on campuscampus

What needs to be displayed in your classroom?

Illustrated learner profile – student generated is best. Have them consider the subject you teach and what each of those traits would look like in that field (have them do it during advisory)

Your language objective

Your content objective

Your Area of Interaction

Your Unit Question

Essential Agreements

Question Parking Lot