Assignments

Final project: A portfolio including your journals and artifacts or photos of artifacts(or whatever else works!) PLUS a one -two page course reflection. Reflection: What stood out? What are you thinking about differently and/or doing differently?What insights did you get from the course? How has it shaped your practice? What are your next steps? Please put these all in some sort of binder or sturdy folder. PLN will not return your project. YOU MAY SUBMIT THIS ON THE LAST CLASS OR KATHY YORK WILL PICK IT UP FROM YOUR SCHOOL

Journal 7:Share the wealth! Present a strategy in class, that is highly engaging, can be easily adapted for different grades. content areas and abilities, and includes all the lenses of learning. Post it here AND bring 20 copies to our final class,to be included in a strategies toolkit. (You may work in pairs if you want to.)

Template: Tell us: What you did. How you did it. Ideas for adaptations. Any relevant resources. materials needed

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Journal 6: Test drive any of the strategies from the third session, adapting them for your students.( If you prefer, you may use any of the previous strategies that you have not tried yet, or any presented by your colleagues.) third session strategies: dance party cocktail party inside/outside circle opinion continuum thought bubbles,text bubbles __From Making It Real__ by Linda Hoyt: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Guess the heading p24, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">I remember, say something <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Generating Q& As from pictures p124 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Labeling pictures p54 fig.6.1 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading with scissors p76 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Crafting text before reading p111 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Beat the Teacher p132-133 <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; punctuationwrap: simple; vertical-align: baseline;">Sketch through the text p139-141

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Journal 5: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Are you able to stay focused on the things within your circle of influence and ignore the rest? What have you been doing to stay positive? What have you been doing to take good care of yourself and manage stress? What are you trying ? What are you noticing? What are you thinking about? //__Journals3__//&4 Test drive the strategies, adapting them for your students: SWBS I have, who has... Alphaboxes 6 word memoir, three word story 2 truths and a lie snowball fight Scavenger hunt or Take a look at the "strategies we used" section and pick one of those to test drive. Be sure to respond to 3 colleagues for each post.

//Bring artifacts from this activity to our next class. You do not need to bring a hard copy of your journal to class, but you may want to make a hard copy now and start to assemble your portfolio ( final project).//

//__ Journal 2 __// Test drive one of these strategies, adapting it for your students: Check the "strategies we tried list" text rendering how available are you for learning? Quick graph Find someone who… Spend your dots or Try a PLN strategy that you know but haven’t tried in a while. What did you do? How did it go? How did you adapt it for your students? What changes, if any would you make? Bring artifacts to class, ready to share //__ Journal 1 The FAT City Experience• __// ** Write a 1 page, double spaced, journal responding to FAT City. Respond to 3 classmates. ** • Part 1 • What stood out? • What ideas were new to you? • What questions does it raise for your practice? • Part2 • Observe your students after seeing this video. • What are you noticing? • What are you questioning? • What are you trying? Please respond to three classmates. Bring artifacts to class, ready to share.