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H-D Professional Development WIKI!!!


  • This wiki has been established to provide us a common place to plan and post documents for 2009-10 professional development.

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Added 2009 - 2010
10-12-09 The following are questions and/or comments from the end of our professional development time exploring the ICC Essential Skills and Concepts and The Five Characteristics of Effective Instruction.
  • Will this get us off the SINA list?
  • Appreciated work with subject groups - middle school & high school together.
  • Time to fulfill the obligations?
  • Do we connect each of these to our units on the curricular map?
  • Many new ideas
  • Will we create our own assessments?
  • Will the state create assessments?
  • How in-depth does the curriculum map have to be?
  • Struggled with organization of the Iowa Core
  • Understand the Iowa Core web site better - seems easier
  • More confident that we might use it

Here is the link to the Iowa Core Curriculum Essential Concepts & Skills on the Iowa Department of Education web site.

http://corecurriculum.iowa.gov/Home.aspx


10-12-09 These are the activity worksheets used to explore the Iowa Core Curriculum Essential Concepts and Skills.






10-12-09 Here is the agenda from our PD on October 12th.




10-12-09 The following document is the new version of the 5 Characteristics of Effective Teaching using the START acronym!!







Added 2008 - 2009






Professional Development resource: www.snipurl.com/h3jbp



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October 12, 2009 Professional Development


LESSON 1
1. You decide what criteria you will evaluate the teacher/lesson on.
2. 10th Grade English Lesson: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/clg/books/1.html#video
3. YOU grade the lesson at:

http://www.doodle.com/2katbc2dx4gwwrvd
4. Grade tabulation and discussion
5. Intro to "Characteristics of Effective Instruction"
6. Evaluate Video 2 (6th Grade Social Studies) using effective instruction criteria.
7. Conclusion