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Welcome to Crossroads!

Welcome to Crossroads!. Our Goals for the Evening. Explain how Crossroads works Guide you through a “typical” Crossroads unit Answer your questions. To help you make the decision if Crossroads is right for you. Yes, we do this …. But, mostly, we do this…. How Do We Learn?. Group Projects

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Welcome to Crossroads!

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  1. Welcome to Crossroads!

  2. Our Goals for the Evening Explain how Crossroads works Guide you through a “typical” Crossroads unit Answer your questions. To help you make the decision if Crossroads is right for you.

  3. Yes, we do this….

  4. But, mostly, we do this…

  5. How Do We Learn? • Group Projects • Individual Projects • Research (guided and independent) • Reading • Discussions • Direct Teacher Instruction

  6. How do we demonstrate what we’ve learned? • Presentations to the class (individual and group) • Projects (individual and group– often these are long • term.) • Formal Writing Assignments (essays, stories, lab reports, poems, literature responses, etc.) • Informal Writing Tasks (log book and reading journal) • Periodic Tests (mostly vocabulary & grammar)

  7. A Sample Mini-Unit: Powering Up • Direct Instruction – greenhouse effect, natural resources, renewable, non-renewable energy resources (60 min) • Introduce Assignment (20 min) • Guided Research Time: (4-5 hrs) • Text book • Library books (from RMS and Delco libraries) • Vetted online resources • Plan presentation (1-2 hrs) • Complete Collaborative Work Skills Rubric (15 min) • Presentations – evaluated as group and as individuals (2-3 hrs) • Log Questions (throughout the process) • Trip to Coal Mine #9 and Eckley Miners’ Village (1 school day) • Introduce Writing Assignment – paragraph (30 min) • Planning sheet (1 hr) • Sample Paragraphs (20 min) • Writing and editing (1 hr) • Paragraph Rubric

  8. Collaborative Work Skills Rubric: Completed after each group project

  9. Oral Presentation Rubric: Each student receives this for every group presentation.

  10. Powering Up – Log Questions • 10-15Explain how the greenhouse effect works and how it is connected • to climate change. • 10-18Explain how your energy source is harvested and turned to energy. • 10-24Explain the advantages and disadvantages of your energy source. • (Consider: availability, cost, environmental impact, and economic impact) • 11-2How did/does the natural resource of coal have an impact on the • communities in which it is mined? • 11-7 Explain an energy plan that you believe is the best plan for the future.

  11. Powering Up – Paragraph Writing Rubric

  12. How Do We Differentiate? • Cluster Grouping • - fiction and nonfiction reading • experiences • - research topics • Differentiated Materials • - within heterogeneous groups • - research tasks/materials • For student interests when possible

  13. Reporting Student Progress Self Assessments(see sample on website) • Every 3-4 weeks (8/year) • Student generated • Teachers respond Mid/End of Year Evaluations (see sample on website) • Received twice per year – Feb and June • 7-page document written by teachers Open Houses • Two evening presentations per year – January • and June Conferences • November parent-teacher conference • Note: No H.A.C. for Crossroads

  14. QUESTIONS?

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