PIIC Coaches Meeting

ARIN IU28 January 20, 2012

Objectives:

To share successful coaching strategies between schools
To evaluate web resources for student engagement and lesson enrichment
To collaboratively determine effective strategies for implementing instructional coaching without or with limited release time
To actively participate in the adaptation of lessons to incorporate the BDA model and improve student engagement
To explore the properties of effective formative assessment strategies

Agenda:

Share out: Successes and Concerns-
- Statewide meeting
- What is working in your school?
- BDA (Indiana)
- In-service (Indiana)
- Co-teaching (Purchase Line)
- Group Web site
  - SAS PLC
    - pdesas.org
Wiki
- arincoaches.wikispaces.com
- Web resources
  - Wordle
  - Glogster
  - Prezi
  - Bartleby.com
Primary Source Documents
- Library of congress
  - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/
National archives (documents / teach) http://www.archives.gov/education/
- http://docsteach.org/
http://free.ed.gov/
http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/
- Go to through SAS
- No-Time Coaches
  - Implementation ideas
    - Model Classroom
    - Co-Teaching
    - Faculty Meetings
    - PLC / Department meetings
What do these look like?
Lesson adaptation
- Write a quick synopsis of a lesson you have recently taught that you think could have been more engaging.
- How could you use BDA and some of the strategies to change this lesson
- Pair share
- Formative Assessments
  - Think about your own school days. What was the worst assessment ever?
  - Render, think-pair-share
  - Formative Assessment Ideas (wiki)
  - High level math lesson: engagement exercise-
    - Area problem

Homework: Before our next meeting, try out one of the “no-time coaches” strategies and write a reflection. Be prepared to share out.

1-20-2012 coaches meeting agenda