ED 690Understanding, Supporting, and

Facilitating the Spirit of PI-34August 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

1. 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? 

2. 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? 

3. 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?

4. What is the Educator Effectiveness program? What role will it play in education in starting this fall? How will it impact beginning teachers?

5. 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?

6. 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.