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TEALS January Meetup1/15/2014
Do Now
Grab some food and a name tag Pick up 3 handouts* and index card
*3rd handout different for AP and Intro Sit with your team Index Card:
What have you learned since you started TEALS?
What is still giving you trouble?
Halftime!
Reflection: What have you learned? What still gives you
trouble?
Progress Report
Program Update School recruiting is NOW – send us schools!
Aiming to DOUBLE(ish)
(volunteer recruiting on deck) OPS team in place! Will hire new Regional Managers to support additional growth Stipend Issues / Volunteer Manager hours / classroom support:
email [Regional Director] Classroom Swag Refill available – wait for email to request
Hour of Code wrap-up
End of semester surveys Only if your class is ending Mirrors survey from
beginning of semester NYC schools have 2 surveys
again Fixing this for 2nd semester
surveymonkey.com/s/TEALSpost
Spring Field Trip 1 full school day
Invite students from both semesters
Format (varies by region)
School Requirements Permission slips
Media release
Provide transportation
Pre/Post discussion
Do you know a school or company who should have a booth at the fair?
Kinect Projects for Intro
Loaner Kinects are available. If interested: Submit project plans for
what you would like to use them for.
Due date: Feb 1. We will send out a survey in which you will need to indicate interest.
SDK + sample projects located at:
http://scratch.saorog.com/
Curriculum Handoff What is the goal of TEALS? How do we maximize our
impact? What is your role in this?
Goals for Phase 2AP AND INTRO
Classroom teacher should (have) complete(d) major projects on their own.
Classroom teacher begins to participate in grading of assignments.
Classroom teacher should be serving as a TA during lab able to fully participate and aid students.
Classroom teacher should begin leading demos or reviews (partial class 1/wk)
AP ONLY
Classroom teacher should take a practice AP test by the end of the year
Classroom teacher should handle half of grading by end of semester
Team Reflection
Work with your teaching team If there are fewer than 3 of you present, merge with another
team
Where is your team right now in the phases discussed in the document?
What should you focus on to make progress? Any feedback on the document itself? (it’s brand new
after all!)
Co-Teaching
Strategies for Effective Co-Teaching
Think about… What are the potential benefits of having multiple adults
in the classroom? What does effective co-teaching look like? What does effective co-teaching require?
Model 1: One Teach, One Support What should the supporter
do? Hand out papers
Drive the demo/computer
Prepare next part of lesson
Monitor student engagement
Model 2: Team Teaching
Situations Asking model questions Paraphrasing Boardwork 2 sides of a debate
Transitions Positive Handoff
Signal
Model 3: Parallel Teaching
Reduce Student:Teacher ratio
Same or different activities Esp. discussions – gives
each student more talk time
Model 4: Station Teaching Hint: you do this almost
every day!
Model 5: Alternative Teaching Can you think of moments in
your class when this would have been helpful?
Be careful with remediation Don’t set low expectations.
Team Teaching Improv ACTIVITY Goal: practice the TEAM TEACHING model
Pair up with someone from your teaching team, and then join a group with another pair (4 people/group total)
Objective: SWBAT explain the binary number system and convert between decimal and binary numbers up to 8 bits
8 minutes to plan how to present the new material (lecture) + demo an example (3 minute lesson)
Team Teaching Improv Game Objective: SWBAT explain the binary number system and
convert between decimal and binary numbers up to 8 bits Rules:
While one teacher is speaking, the other should be writing on the “board” (paper).
The observing team can signal the teachers to switch roles by shouting “Switch!”. This can happen up to 3x throughout the lesson.
Afterwards, discuss what worked well (particularly during transitions), what felt unnatural or didn’t go as planned, and the specific things that need to be planned out ahead of time
Team Teaching Wrapup
What are the potential benefits of having multiple adults in the classroom?
What does effective co-teaching look like?
What does effective co-teaching require?
How can you use this in your classroom to: Boost student
achievement? Make progress towards
curriculum handoff?
SPLIT!!
AP Teams Preparing students for the
AP Exam
Intro Teams Using the new Curriculum
Guide and Curriculum Materials Repository
AP Exam PrepCreate a plan for what strategies you will incorporate to start preparing students for the AP exam, how often, and what resources will be required
Strategies for AP prep:
Incorporate past AP questions into exams and HW
Assign past AP questions as Do Now/entrance activity
Practice free response questions and scoring guides
Practice handwriting code
Timed practice (MC or FRQ)
Full-length practice exams outside of school (classroom teacher)
Curriculum Materials
Guide Units
Objectives
Assessment
Suggested Activities
Repository Set of curated content from
you Sort and Filter by unit,
topic, objective Search metadata and full-
text Rate content to help others
choose Send us content to include!
Curriculum Repository
Launching ASAP Requires an Office 365
account (“Organizational Account”) OR Live ID / “Microsoft Account”
You will receive an invitation this weekend
DEMO!!!!
https://teals.sharepoint.com/curriculum
Practice-It for AP
Requires a login – easy to create
Demo: http://practiceit.cs.washington.edu/practiceit/
Open Discussion Major issues in your class? Curriculum? Assessments and grading? One of the topics from tonight:
Kinect
Field Trip
Handoff
Co-Teaching
Exit Ticket: session feedback
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