CR Biology eLC Meeting

November 18th

8:00 pm

Agenda

•Strategies for success

•On pace reporting

•Tutoring

•Fall revisions updates

•This weeks eLC CA

•Next meeting

Strategies for the Final Push to help increase student involvement:

Message each student at the beginning of the week with a specific goal.

Pacing Guides.

◦ Send them to parents &DLAs as well as the students.

◦ Remember these are to help move the student towards On Pace over time - not over night.

◦ Send these more often during the upcoming weeks.

Phone calls to DLAs.

Communicate - communicate - communicate.

◦ with students, parents & all stakeholders

Celebrate successes! Often! In announcements!

Pronto constantly! During the school day if possible and allowed at you f2f school if you teach f2f.

Personalize emails to the DLAs with the Mastery Charts including specific information about the student(s).

Student of the week!

Call students when they are in the lab at school.

Hold a "Contact me challenge!" having the students contact the teacher.

◦ Encourages students to initiate contact.

◦ Wonderful skill for students!

Text - text - text!

◦ Text during the day if you're willing.

Set an expectation of the day in the announcements with specific assignments.

Feature student work in the announcements.

Constantly ensure your announcements are effective.

Create videos for your course using screencast or SmartBoard software.

Send Mastery Charts more often in the final weeks.

Begin the countdown!

On Pace reporting

MC 5 --- 26.7%

Make sure your numbers add up

Do not include students dropped at school level ( You need email conformation from Michelle about this)

DO INCLUDE students who are not working

Don’t forget this is a

MC weekend

Tutoring

Have any students shown up??

Make sure we are posting tutoring

times

Each teacher archive a short lesson

during tutoring time

Make sure we are showing up

Revision updates

From what we talked about last time here is what as been updated◦ M1 CA1 (sponge bob)

◦ M2 CA1 (vocab assignment- removed)

◦ M2 CA2 (food webs)

◦ M2 MA2 (now the symbiosis assignment)

◦ M2 MA3 (removed)

◦ M3 MA1 (iden nutrients gizmo17 samples shorted to 7)

◦ M12 post test- Edited to fit lessons

currently working on◦ M3 CA1 (the Enzyme wiki)

◦ M3 MA2 (the comic)**

Not yet started

Lesson 4 *

◦ removing cell theory notes & replacing with pro &Eu--- changing check your knowledge quiz to match

M5 CA1

◦ editing the amount of items from 105

M5 MA2 *-- Debbie found a great interactive lab to go here

◦ the entire assignment needs to be changed

M5 post test *

◦ test needs to be checked & adjusted

M6 CA3

◦ removal & beef up other 2 CAs

M6 MA1 *

◦ change so students do not cut and paste

M8 CA3

◦ removal & beef up other two CAs

This weeks eLC---

11.1 What is curriculum alignment?

a. Define curriculum alignment

b. Identify the standards upon which your course relies. Access

a copy of these standards and make sure every member of the

eLC has access to the standards.

c. Discuss the relationship between the standards for your

course, your instruction, and assessments, and the elements of

Webb's alignment system (found in Castro's presentation).

These include categorical concurrence, depth-of-knowledge

consistency, range of knowledge correspondence, balance of

representation, and source of challenge. Do you see any

similarities/differences?

This weeks eLC

What are our roles?

◦ facilitator--someone who makes sure that everyone participates

◦ timekeeper--someone who makes sure everything is submitted on schedule

◦ standards expert--someone who is very familiar with your course standards and can be the reference "go-to" person if your eLC has a question. In addition, if your course has additional standards such as AP this person could be that expert.

◦ form expert--someone who is willing to keep check of your alignment google document (more about this later) and troubleshoot any problems

◦ other roles as appropriate for your course content.

Anything else????

Next meeting

Thursday December 16th 8pm