We have SATs but they are different. Our SATs are single students, not groups of students. In PCLs we talk about anchor lessons and how to group students. We might discuss a student that needs to go to SAT. Usually we focus on a strategy and look at research or a book like RWM and what we are going to use to anchor the lesson and what we want as an outcome. What are we going to look for? How do we know that students have achieved the strategy? Mary
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > What you define as PLCs in my state are SATs (student assistance teams) or > RtI groups. > Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:05 > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group< > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities > > > This sounds more like trying to integrate the subjects to help students see > connections. This is a common practice at junior high so that students see > how the different subjects are related. > > I see PLCs as more like Jennifer stated. You use data to identify an area > that needs to be improved. Then, all teachers identify strategies or > practices for their individual area to work on. Progress monitoring is a > regular part of this to see if the intervention is actually working. The > progress monitoring is not to evaluate teachers but rather who is the > inervention working for. If it is not working, what other strategies should > be in place to help the student/s make progress. > > Carol > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:56:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities > > I am moving to a new grade level in the same school and my new team is > piloting PLC's in our building. From my understanding, this is the way it > will > work. Our team consists of 5 teachers. One each language arts, math, > science, social studies and 1 special education teacher (me). Our team > leader, > the science teacher, has had some training in structuring the PLC's so this > is what from my understanding is to take place. Prior to the beginning of > school, we are to have our curriculum maps broken down into basically three > week blocks. The first three weeks will primarily be procedures and content > review. So at the beginning of the year. we will be meeting daily for a > while to start with planning our second three week block. We will bring our > materials, activities, assessments and everything we plan to use to the > table > and then the five of us will work together to evaluate, make > recommendations, and support each other as we develop every thing for this > second 3 week > block. There is a framework from which we work - don't have mine yet but I > am trying to obtain information about it.So basically while we are > teaching one three week block we will be in the planning and refining for > the next > three week block. Does this explanation make sense? Jennifer and others - > does this sound familiar? > > June > Grade 7 Language Arts / Special Needs KY > **************Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. > Try the new Email Toolbar now! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown00000027) > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
