Meeting Minutes- ELA Project Proposal

Things that we want to include:

• Authentic, standards based, assessment
• Lesson planning
• Giving feedback
• Helping students to write essays
• Creative writing

Suggested Texts

• Smagorinski
• Online Unit Plans
• Articles on feedback and intrinsic motivation

Evidence Produced

• Meeting minutes
• Unit plans, lesson plans
  
• Feedback on each others writing
• Personal writing
  

Wants and needs

• Realistic work load
• Fun
• Writing

Suggested title

• Examining the writing process from planning to feedback to assessment

Ideas

• Working with the Writer's Workshop, creating and running a writing workshop
• Each person creates a Writer's Workshop and runs the others through it and collects feedback
• Field trip
• Eggers' workshop, investigating

Tentative Schedule
Week 2: Investigate Smagorinski, bring what makes good feedback
Week 3: Look at Unit plans, Ideas about feedback/assessment/state standards
Week 4: Person 1
Week 5: Person 2
Week 6: Person 3
Week 7: Person 4
Week 8: Person 5
Week 9: Field Trip
Week 10: Group reflection

Learning Goals:

Formative Assessments:
Creating lesson plans
Try out teaching
Summative Assessments:
Revision of the writing workshop with EALRs and GLEs, and where it would fit in a unit

The flow of the day, Wednesday 12-2
First half hour the presenter runs their