Discourse+Divas

West Lake Elementary PLT 2011 Notes Team Name: Discourse Divas Date: Team Smart Goal: Questions || Use the questions and the talk triangle in class and discuss the results. || Question Stems || Incorporate new items into lessons. Find teacher's to observe. ||
 * Team Member name in attendance[h11] || Steps achieved this last week[h22] || impact on children in classroom[h33] || Artifacts collected this week for December presentation[h44] || What to work on for next week[h55] ||
 * Chris Kelly ||  || Cindy shared the talk triangle that she used in her math groups. She also shared the question stems that she made to give to the students. She gave input that it was successful for digging deeper in Math. Chris made a talk triangle for the students to use, and shared the question cards that Heather provided us last year. || Talk Triangle
 * Cindy Clavijo ||  || I shared my version of talk triangle that I tried in class. I also shared question stems I used to promote and continue discussions. Several of us are signed up for Math Talk Training || Talk Triangle
 * Heather Hobgood ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Jessica Nelson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Erin Moss ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

[h1]1 Enter here who is at this meeting (Those that are tracked in) [h2]2 Be specific in what you completed this week. Examples are: observing a classroom, implementing student leaders daily, etc. [h3]3 Who specifically has benefitted from your new and improved ways? How deeper has this made your instruction? [h4]4 Insert items that you have collected over the week such as pictures, student work samples, lesson plans, etc. [h5]5 Set a specific goal to accomplish to help focus your week. Ask someone to be your accountability partner! West Lake Elementary PLT 2011 Notes Team Name: Date: 9/19/11 Team Smart Goal: Increase math talk with our students

Team Name: Date: 9/26/11 Team Smart Goal: Increase math talk with our students
 * Team Member name in attendance || Steps achieved this last week || impact on children in classroom || Artifacts collected this week for December presentation || What to work on for next week ||
 * Chris Kelly || We met off campus to develop norms || The students are working on math talk and it is taking a while for the training. We want to incorporate the math talk naturally. Students need a lot of practice. || Talk Triangle and math talk cards and we are practicing using these in class. Looking forward to our training in Math talk. || Will share what has worked and did not work in our class. ||
 * Jessica Nelson ||  || Talked about a low student who talked at the smartboard using math talk and math vocabulary. ||   ||   ||
 * Cindy Clavijo ||  ||   || Math Talk workshop attendees Chris, Jessica, Cindy ||   ||
 * Erin Moss ||  ||   || Pam: Special Ed training for math foundations ||   ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  ||   ||   ||   ||

Erin Moss Cindy Clavijo || Tried various math talk strategies, both teacher driven with questions and open question strategy (student driven) || Helping the high level group, difficult for the lower students. It is leading the high group to higer level thinking and level 4 opportunities. || Erin shared a workshop packet from "3-5 number sense' and "K-5 Geometry. || Attend math talk workshop and share information. ||
 * Team Member name in attendance || Steps achieved this last week || impact on children in classroom || Artifacts collected this week for December presentation || What to work on for next week ||
 * Chris Kelly
 * Jessica Nelson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Date: 10-17 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Heather Hobgood || Students solved problems using various problem solving strategies and then discussed with peers. || Using math journals to promote math discourse. Students use 4-Square (based on Frayr Model) to promote deeper understanding of math concepts. || math journals || Video tape modeling a think aloud ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  || Pam shared a program that she received from Specials Education Programs, SRA Number Worlds. A leveled math program for 4th and 5th grade. ||   || Pam will place 5 students in the program and will collect data to present to the Special Education Team to track growth and improvement. ||
 * Jessica Nelson || Students are successfully using math journals to discuss math concepts. || Students are using their math journals as a jumping off point for discussions and to monitor their own learning. || math journals || Will begin reading, "Responding to Diversity" Chapter 1 and will report back to PLT with strategies. ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  || Pam shared a program that she received from Specials Education Programs, SRA Number Worlds. A leveled math program for 4th and 5th grade. ||   || Pam will place 5 students in the program and will collect data to present to the Special Education Team to track growth and improvement. ||
 * Jessica Nelson || Students are successfully using math journals to discuss math concepts. || Students are using their math journals as a jumping off point for discussions and to monitor their own learning. || math journals || Will begin reading, "Responding to Diversity" Chapter 1 and will report back to PLT with strategies. ||

Team Name: Date: 10/31/11

Team Smart Goal: Increase math talk with our students

math talk || forces the students to use the content vocabulary, and dig deeper. CMAPP discussion and the impact on the students. How do we keep the kids interested? || Pam shared the new math program, Number Worlds which corresponds to Math Expression. || Will share what has worked and did not work in our class. ||
 * Team Member name in attendance || Steps achieved this last week || impact on children in classroom || Artifacts collected this week for December presentation || What to work on for next week ||
 * Chris Kelly || continued to encourage
 * Jessica Nelson ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Cindy Clavijo || shared math talk strategy w ith group || encourages focused dialogue and learning of the math talk strategies || I shared information on how I used the question stems, focusing on one a week, in my lower math groups on up. I also shared how I tried to use the strategy in other subject areas. For example, we worked on revoicing in math, and continued to use that in social studies when listening for responses among students. || observe a classroom teacher during math time ||
 * Erin Moss ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ||  ||   || November 7|| Team Member name in attendance || Steps achieved this last week || impact on children in classroom || Artifacts collected this week for December presentation || What to work on for next week ||
 * Heather Hobgood ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Cindy Clavijo || observed Heather's class
 * Cindy Clavijo || observed Heather's class

We discussed parent volunteers

Heather shared new info from workshop called "rough draf / final copy"

presenter, rough copy, and final copy jobs in the triangle || made me think of the question, how do we ecourage math talk in "tub" groups

How can "rough draft/final copy" work in the classroom at various stations, group work, etc. || question cards || find more people to observe

see if we can try the strategy from Heather in the classroom. ||
 * Erin Moss ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pam Crutchfield ||  ||   ||   ||   ||