PIIC Coaches Meeting
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October 23, 2014



Objectives:


  • To share strategies, information, and materials across schools
  • To design and use language-based learning activities
  • To evaluate tasks using alignment to DOK
  • To explore the relationship between Lexile and text usage
  • To revise questioning based on comprehension, using DOK
  • To plan for an administrator session / PIIC overview
  • To identify needs and plan collectively to meet those needs


"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."
-Thomas Kempis


BEFORE


Please Do Now:
53 Ways To Check for Understanding
Take 4 minutes. Quickly read the article. Circle 3-5 strategies you have used or seen used. Draw a star next to one strategy you would love to try.


DURING


  • Welcome Back / Updates
    • First PLN session...
    • September statewide Professional Learning Opportunity (PLO)
      • What did you "bring back?"
    • What's happening in our schools?
  • Building Language-Based Activities (PLO Session)
    • Please Do NowDepth of Knowledge (DOK)
      • Write 3 questions about this picture
    • How to Bartle Puzballs
    • Question Strategies for textsLexile levels
      • WWI article
    • Creating questions - with a partner
      • Find a partner
      • Choose and article from www.newsela.com
      • One of you reads a high lexile, the other a low lexile
    • A few words on Wait Time...
    • Exit Ticket
      • Can you revise your questions or compose additional questions to stimulate deeper thinking?

  • Literacy Resources Wiki
  • Flubaroo
    • Other Google Add-Ons

AFTER


Ticket Out
Please write a DOK 1 question about today's session on your note card. Fold it once and put it in the pumpkin.