ED 690 Understanding, Supporting, and Facilitating the Spirit of PI-34

ED 690Understanding, Supporting, and Facilitating the Spirit of PI-34 August 2014 – Day One

Welcome • Important Information • Soda/Vending machines • Name cards/white boards • Course registration • Handouts -- changes?

Ice Breaker • Long weekend vacations: • Chicago, • Door County, • At home, • NY • Discuss as a group/corner – why you selected it • Prepare a commercial, jingle or advertisement “selling” us your destination

Ice Breaker #2 • Favorite season of the year: • Summer, fall, winter, spring • Discuss in your corner what you love about that season. Share the top three reasons you selected it.

Pre-Assessment • What do you know about PI 34? • I don’t know much yet • I know some • I know quite a bit • I could teach this • Basic and minimal ask questions of proficient • RECORD QUESTIONS ON WHITE BOARDS

Group Norms • Ground Rules Handout • Discuss at your tables these ground rules. • Are there any questions, rules to add, or rules to delete or modify?

Principles of Conversation • First Year of License Cycle is for Reflection • How can these principles of conversation support that reflection?

Syllabus and Purposes of Course • Why are you here? • Why am I here? What background does the instructor bring? • What’s in a name? • Understanding • Supporting • Facilitating • Spirit

Main Assignments • Course Assignments and Grading System for 3 credits • Meeting Presentation on Licensure Levels and PI-34 • 20% -- Due Wed • Reflective Essay connection of PI 34 to Servant Leadership • 20% • Professional Development Plan Assignment * • 50% • Options available depending upon experience with PDPs • Attendance & Participation • 10% • we will do a short research activity in small groups on day 2 • Take a few moments to individually review the syllabus. • Know that more details will come on these assignments.

Background on PI 34 KWL -- What do we know about PDPs? Power Point on PI-34

Circles of Learning • Take time to reflect upon our activities so far today • Ice breakers • Purposes of the course/syllabus • PI-34 power point • How are each of these important in your role(s) as a colleague, mentor, peer, or supervisor? • Place 3 key thoughts into the “circles of learning”

LUNCH

Review—Partner Activity • Using WI Quality Educator Initiative Licensure Stages Chart . . . • 1) As an initial educator tell someone unfamiliar with PI-34 the main points • 2)As a professional educator, what are 3 main differences between your licensure cycle and an initial educator’s?

CHANGE “Resistance to change is perhaps as natural as the need to change is obvious”

Standards and Change in Education 2014 • Over the past year few years, there has been a significant amount of change in education within the state of Wisconsin and more change is to come. • KWL Chart –What I know, What I want to know . . .

A Message from the State Superintendent • http://statesupt.dpi.wi.gov/ • What changes have been implemented? What plans have changed? Why?

Time to Explore • We are going to take time to explore some changes and how they will relate to our roles in supporting teachers – new and veteran ones • In small groups, review the updated DPI website and prepare your findings related to one of the listed focus questions. Be prepared to share your information with the whole group. • http://www.dpi.wi.gov/ • Link to home page of DPI

Focus Questions • What are the WI Teacher Standards? How do they relate to student learning? With which ones do most beginning teachers struggle? Where do they need the most growth and support? • Compare/Contrast the InTASC Standards to the WI Teacher Standards. What are some clear similarities? What are some significant differences? What are the implications of those differences? • How are the administrator standards different from the teacher standards? According to the standards -- What role do administrators have in supporting beginning teachers? AND What role do they have in facilitating student learning? • What is the Educator Effectiveness program? What role will it play in education in starting this fall? How will it impact beginning teachers? • Compare the Danielson framework to the teacher standards. How is it related, similar, and or different to the teacher standards? What do we need to know about it as we support beginning teachers? • Open Option – Something else you find on the DPI website that is pertinent to supporting beginning teachers, teacher standards, and student learning. – Why do we need to know about it?

Sharing of Research • What does everyone need to know? • How will you share this information?

Feedback on this activity • What worked? • What could be changed or altered? • Return to KWL – List some key ideas or points you wish to remember

Closure for Day One • Add to your circles of learning • Share what you have written at your tables • Picture Grid – Whip around – “PI-34 is like a _____ because . . .”

Homework • Brainstorm what you would include for the meeting agenda assignment – it is due on Wednesday morning • We will talk more about assignments tomorrow morning.

ED 690 Understanding, Supporting, and Facilitating the Spirit of PI-34