Plan+11.16.2010


 * Second Grade Inquiry Cycle Mid-Cycle Plan**
 * November 15, 2010**

How can we help students write clear reflections about their learning?
 * Inquiry Question:**

If we give students more opportunities to orally reflect on their work, their writing will be more organized, make more sense, and reflect deeper thinking.
 * Theory of Action:**

Weeks of 11.15.2010
 * Action Plan:**


 * Make lists of the Big Ideas for each discipline and have arrows pointing to the Big Ideas we are working on (like the long-term targets).
 * Revisit the LT as many times as possible:
 * Teachers work on coming back to the learning target numerous times during a lesson: asking kids to self-evaluate partway through a lesson, for example.
 * In the mini-lesson and during conferring, ask students what the learning target is without them being able to see it so they have to rephrase it, or asking them to explain it in their own words: “what are we working on right now?”
 * During sharing, ask “Has the student met the learning target? How do you know?” Also ask students, “Have you met the learning target? How do you know?”
 * //How do we know when they know?? When is it solid?//

Implement action steps above. ||  || Implement action steps above. ||  || 12.20.2010 || Implement action steps above. Collect final data / student work / reflections Videotape interviews: 2 kids each (same kids as before) ||  ||
 * **Week of** || **What** ||  ||
 * 11.15.2010 || Videotape interviews: 2 kids each
 * 11.22.2010 || Videotape interviews: 2 kids each
 * 11.29.2010 || Implement action steps above. ||  ||
 * 12.6.2010 || Implement action steps above. ||  ||
 * 12.13.2010

§ Each teacher chooses 2-4 students and concentrates on them – do they know the learning targets? What helps them know it? What helps them talk more about what they have learned, why it’s important, and what else they need to learn? Focus our data collection more on specific students, even though the instructional strategies are for everyone. § Videotape students reflecting? § Before sending students off to work, ask who understands the learning target. Those who don’t stay on the rug while others go start. § Continue to ask students while they work, what is their evidence that they are getting better at or have met the learning target, and how their work helps them get better at. § Do more think alouds to model the WHY of what we are doing.
 * Additional Possible Action Steps:**

**Videotaping interviews:** Kelley: Rakim, Wilson Emoryia, Guided Reading Jessica: Amari,

Jalyn,

Heidi: Keon, math

Kyara, math

Denise: Dominic, math

Carl, math

Annie:

Kate:

Xing:

What work will we share on Jan. 3rd?
 * Student Work**

Do interviews with kids: do they know the learning target? What can they say about it? Do some now when we have only told them the LT once; then do some in a few weeks when we have been going over the LTs more. Do interviews right after a lesson.


 * What was the learning target?
 * Why is it important?
 * Have you met the target? How do you know? What's your evidence?

What will our final data be? How will we compare it to the first data?
 * Data**