Strong Relationships

PLC Name: Active Principle 4: Strong Relationships

PLC Members: Brandy, Shannon, Harjyote

PLC Focus and Essential Question:

1.  How are we effectively fostering a positive relationship between students and their learning?

Goals & Strategic Plan

Goal & Descriptor of Success

Goal

1. Students will have Passion, Excitement, Understanding, and Ownership of their work.

         Passion, Excitement, Understanding and Ownership are demonstrated by:

o   Taking their work home with them and working on it there

o   Talking to their families and peers about what they are doing. 

o   Usining unstructured time (IE recess, lunch and Fun Friday time) to work on their projects, and not just to avoid going outside.

o   Sharing their learning and final projects with peers, teachers and guests.

o   Displaying their learning for others to see.

What do we need to learn, know, explore, discuss, find, access and be able to do in order to achieve our goal(s)?

·      We need to take into account how the students feel about their learning right now. 

·      What they are interested in, and looking at how we can relate that to the curriculum.

·      Discuss with them the appropriate ways in which they can express and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.

o   Diaramas, plays, posters, paragraph, computer models, artwork etc.

Discussions need to had around how to assess their work.

         Creating student rubrics for self assessment.

How and where will we get the knowledge, skills or understandings?

Galileo:

§  looking at how to teach for deeper understanding.

§  Teaching and modeling how to collaborate ideas amongst students and their peers.

What resources and supports will we need in order to achieve our goals?

o   Ipod will be handy for documenting student thinking.

o   Colleagues and feedback

o   A data bank of websites and student based tools like Learn Alberta and the new CORE

What data will help us understand how this work has improved student learning and achievement?

·      Student work, and engagment.

·      Making videos of them explaining their process and final projects.

·      Students ability to talk about what they have learned.

Action Plan

·      To start we would like to interview our classes to see where they are at and how they feel about what they are learning, and how they are learning.

o   This may need to be a scaffolded conversation as many learners may not have the necessary vocabulary to express their feelings on their learning. 

·      We will each bring in documents from these conversations.

PLC Actions (include whom and by when?)

What specific tasks do we need to accomplish by the end of the school year?

What are our main tasks for the first month?

What kind of timeline do we propose for the remainder of the tasks?

What data/work can we use/generate to monitor the impact of our actions on student learning and achievement?