Institute-Business

This page will be where we post agendas, minutes, notes, and other materials that pertain to the business of our institute work.

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 * Opening video of My Sentence Slideshow **

PDF of Keynote slideshow of My Sentence activity






 * RESULTS FROM THE SURVEY **

These are the results from the Survey we took.

topics and number of responses in survey
 * TOPICS PARTICIPANTS ARE INTERESTED IN PURSUING **
 * Technology in the classroom-4-
 * Standards-based grading-1-
 * Classroom behavior, challenging behavior-2-
 * Typical day in life of a student-1-
 * Working with parents-1-
 * Curriculum issues unique to my school-1-
 * Projects, PBL, at home or in school-1-
 * Time management-1-
 * Information on standards and expectations unique to my school-1-
 * Individual vs group work in the classroom, balance between the two-1-
 * Interdisciplinary lesson planning-1-
 * Bringing outside learning environments into the classroom-1-
 * Working with gifted students-1-
 * Working with students with learning issues, what if parents are not supportive?-1-
 * Developing lessons that encourage creative thinking and problem-solving-1-


 * ARTICLES TO READ **

Article for the CFT Summer Institute, How To Kill Creativity?, Theresa Amabile

Article for Day 2

Figure that goes with article for Day 2



Monday, July 9
What's Your Sentence? || Complete the "What's Your Sentence" Activity.
 * ~ **Time** ||~ Activity ||~ Notes ||
 * ~ 8:30 ||= Introductory activity

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 * ~ 9:30 ||= Challenges of Being New in a Community || We will do a brainwriting activity to some prompts about being NEW. In addition, we will write some affirmations and do a large group sharing of what we learn.

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 * ~ 10:30 ||= Break ||  ||
 * ~ 10:45 ||= Lesson Planning Activity || We will workshop the lesson plans you bring to the table. I will have you think about Understanding by Design or the 5-E lesson plan model OR something else. We will present, review, and critique our lesson plans in small groups.

Day 1 Activity protocol for critiquing and designing a lesson.

UbD Design Template for the lesson activity.

[|Gamestorming Activity: Learning Matrix] to process what you learned critiquing your lesson.... || General discussion and some presentation of material
 * ~ 12:00 ||= Lunch ||  ||
 * ~ 1:00 ||= Lesson Planning Activity || Continuation of the morning exercise. ||
 * ~ 2:00 ||= ** Participant Topics ** || Review the Wikispace, Topics of interest, and parking lot

Exit ticket ||  ||
 * Look at the Sir Ken Robinson Video about creativity in schools
 * Discuss the article How to Kill Creativity.
 * Take her "killers of creativity" and put them into our school context...what does it look like in school and how could we change our structure or process to encourage creativity in our students? ||
 * ~ 3:00 ||= Reflective exercises

Thursday, July 12
Q & A || Review the Exit Ticket Data from Wednesday.
 * ~ Time ||~ Activity ||~ Notes ||
 * ~ 8:30 ||= Review Previous Day's work

Icebreaker

[|Learning Styles Quiz] [|Learning Styles Inventory], UGA and COE

Multiple Intelligences Inventory ||
 * ~ 9:15 ||= Writing as an expression of understanding || We will explore writing as a form of expressing our understanding.

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 * ~ 10:30 ||= Break ||  ||
 * ~ 10:45 ||= Art of Asking Good Questions || We will complete an activity that involves reading an article from the New York Times and working in small groups to construct a lesson that is focused on asking good questions using a protocol for how to develop questions.



[|Ignite Talk Videos,] Giving a talk with 15-20 slides in 5 minutes. ||
 * ~ 12:00 ||= Lunch ||  ||
 * ~ 1:00 ||= Brain and Learning || This will be a general overview of what we know from neuroscience that can inform our practice. More of a presentation.

Link to a slide deck on How the Brain Learns, David Sousa

PDF of the slidedeck || General discussion and some presentation of material || Exit ticket ||  ||
 * ~ 2:00 ||= ** Participant Topics ** || Review the Wikispace, Topics of interest, and parking lot
 * ~ 3:00 ||= Reflective exercises

Friday, July 13
Q & A || Review the comments from Day 2 Modified Agenda for Today! ||
 * ~ Time ||~ Activity ||~ Notes ||
 * ~ 8:30 ||= Review Previous Day's work
 * ~ 9:15 ||= Creativity, becoming a creative teacher & helping students tap into their creativity || Sir Ken Robinson video on creativity

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 * ~ 10:30 ||= Break ||  ||
 * ~ 10:45 ||= Creating a community in your classroom || One of the most important skills a teacher can develop to build student engagement is to "make" his or her classroom into a community of learners. How do we go about doing this?

[|Affinity Map Exercise from Gamestorming]

The question: How should we design a classroom to build a strong sense of community for all learners?

|| General discussion and some presentation of material || Exit ticket ||  ||
 * ~ 12:00 ||= Lunch ||  ||
 * ~ 1:00 ||= Assessment || We will explore our attitudes towards assessment. We will look at formative assessment as a way to build assessment literacy and engage students in their own learning. ||
 * ~ 2:00 ||= ** Participant Topics ** || Review the Wikispace, Topics of interest, and parking lot
 * ~ 3:00 ||= Reflective exercises