Attendance: Martine MacKenzie, Robert Dunlop, Erica Poor
Overview:
- discussed where she was at with regards to her PD learning
- said she was very interested in extending her learning regarding Success Criteria and Learning Goals
- we looked at where she was at in each of her subject and the best fit to see this co-created with the class.
- she wanted to focus on social studies so we look through the curriculum to decide which expectations to do.
- we decided to use a cross curricular approach which will cover both Social Studies and English.
- This was she could teach the social studies in French and the students could do letter writing in English.
- Once we selected our curriculum expectations, we created a learning goal and unpacked our success criteria for practice.
See below
Learning Goal: To
write a formal letter
to the government that effectively presents a
solution to an issue that affects them.
Requirements:
- 3 paragraphs
- must be to government official
- must have greeting/salutation
- follows a template
Social Studies (B1.2, B1.3)
- realistic
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specific
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innovative/creatice
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well thought out
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measurable ???
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cost effective
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Purpose/Organization
(1.1 & 1.5)
- clear and concise
- rationale should be backed up with
evidence
- each paragraph has a specific purpose
- narrow focus
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Day One: Hook Lesson
(100 min.)
- We will start
co-teaching. Interrupted by Mario
- One week extension
to school year for just us.
- I’ll take over,
past experience
- What are we going
to do? Most effective means to
communicate?
- Select letter –
What would our arguments be -
brainstorming.
- Discuss what
should be in the letter - issue, how we
can solve it.
- Discuss how this
should be organized into graphs
- Break into groups
and write letter to present to Mr. Zeoli (time limit)
Day Two: Set Up Success Criteria
- Look back at
examples and critique (effective critism) – Gallery walk
- present learning
goal to class
- Unpack (Rob)
Day Three: Mini Lesson
- Format and
structure of letter
- Square
- Each paragraph
needs a specific purpose (multiple points)
- Give another
opportunity in groups. Give them a topic
or article, write a letter. Perhaps in
language.
- Give them the
purpose of the each paragraph (Address
issue, create a plan,
implementation)
Day Four: Evaluate letter using success criteria
- each group will
peer evaluate others groups using the set out success criteria.
- Discuss with class
- You set up and give
out final assignment – Letter to government
