Modeling Departmental Professional Learning

Activities

Leona Group

Phoenix, AZ

November 18, 2011

Professional Learning Communities

• Play

• Share

• Work together

• Model

• Learn

• Grow2

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Your turn:

Share something about yourself that we are unlikely to know about you.

1 minute to consider

20 seconds to present

Pass is always an option

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Why did I ask you to do this?

TO:-Show how much we bring collectively-Remind you that we’re in this together-Begin the process of reducing isolation-Humanize our professional interaction

BECAUSE:- If we don’t depend on each other, there’s no one else!

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Good Afternoon

Part 1: Modeling a lesson

Part 2: Viewing a lesson

Part 3: Discussing a reading

Part 1: Modeling a lesson

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Let’s see what you know 1

A class has 14 boys and 12 girls.

What is the ratio of:

- boys to girls?

- boys to students?

- students to girls?

- other ratios?

- why do all ratios have 14, 12 or 26?

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Let’s see what you know 2

A store sells 4 melons for $6.

- How much will it cost to buy 24 melons?

- How many melons can you buy for $30?

- How much will it cost to buy 9 melons?

- How many melons can you buy for $15?

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Let’s see what you know 3

We drive to Florida at 60 miles per hour.

What do you see?

What do you notice when you look:

Left to right between columns?

Top to bottom within columns?

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Hours 1 2 5 ____ X

Miles 60 ____ ____ 540 _____

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Let’s look at a silly problem

Sandra is interested in buying party favors for the friends she is inviting to her birthday party.

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Let’s look at a silly problem

Sandra is interested in buying party favors for the friends she is inviting to her birthday party. The price of the fancy straws she wants is 12 cents for 20 straws.

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Let’s look at a silly problem

Sandra is interested in buying party favors for the friends she is inviting to her birthday party. The price of the fancy straws she wants is 12 cents for 20 straws. The storekeeper is willing to split a bundle of straws for her.

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Let’s look at a silly problem

Sandra is interested in buying party favors for the friends she is inviting to her birthday party. The price of the fancy straws she wants is 12 cents for 20 straws. The storekeeper is willing to split a bundle of straws for her. She wants 35 straws.

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Let’s look at a silly problem

Sandra is interested in buying party favors for the friends she is inviting to her birthday party. The price of the fancy straws she wants is 12 cents for 20 straws. The storekeeper is willing to split a bundle of straws for her. She wants 35 straws. How much will they cost?

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So?

Your turn. How much?

How did you get your answer?

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So how can we solve a proportion problem?

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The key is the UNITS Cents = Cents

Straws Straws

Miles = Miles

Hours Hours

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Your turn 1

$50,000 in 4 years

________ in 10 years

$175,000 in ____ years

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Your turn 2

• Tim walks 2 ½ miles in 45 minutes on Saturday. He walks at the same rate for 75 minutes on Sunday. How far would he walk? Explain your thinking.

• It takes 4 people 10 hours to mow the grass in the city park. If they all work at the same rate, how long will it take 6 people to mow the same park? Explain your thinking

What did we learn today

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Your exit slip

I earn $52 for 8 hours of babysitting.

a)How much will I earn if I babysit for 100 hours?

b)How many hours will I have to babysit if I need to earn $400?

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Comments?

Suggestions?

Questions?

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Part 2

Roll the videotape

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An Algebra Lesson

• What interested you?

• What surprised you?

• What didn’t make sense?

• What elements could you adapt/adopt?

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Part 3

Issue: Double-dose Algebra

Vs.

Pre-algebra, then Algebra

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• What do you agree with?

• What are you not sure about?

• What questions do you have?

• How is this useful?

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Your ideas for PLCs at your site

How can you convert this afternoon into specific activities

that reduce isolation and support growth and

collaboration?

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