Clustering PLC
Meeting 7Evaluating the Cluster Grouping Model in American Studies
Monday, April 15, 2013, 2:15-3:35
SSHS’s Vision: Utilizing the best teaching practices, we will ensure that our students have the essential academic, ethical and workplace skills and knowledge to be successful in an ever-changing world.
Goals for PLC
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Identify, utilize and share pre- and post- assessment tools in order to gauge what students know and can do.
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Provide targeted, differentiation strategies to use with our ELL and GT clusters in the American Studies and English 9 classrooms.
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Use common language to use when discussing and making decisions around clusters, differentiated instruction, and other aspects of our courses.
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Grounding: What is something you’d like to share about your successes with clustering during second semester so far?
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Review: Goals and meetings so far this year
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Successes & Struggles: Cluster Grouping Model (CGM) in American Studies
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Break into Language Arts and Social Studies teams to discuss the following:
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What are some things that went well with the Cluster Grouping Model (CGM) as specifically related to American History/American Literature content and instructional practices?
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Identify specific instructional strategies that you used that supported the needs of students in your class.
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What was your greatest success with the CGM?
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What evidence do you have that supports increased student achievement/engagement due to CGM?
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What are some struggles with the CGM as specifically related to American History/American Literature content and instructional practices?
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What would eliminate these struggles? What can you do to prevent these struggles in the future?
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What do we need to make the CGM more effective?
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To what extent did we meet our goals (above)?
What would you do differently if we are to use the CGM again?
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What should our leadership do differently if we are to use the CGM again?
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What kind of professional development would we need?
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Collectively, as a Language Arts/Social Studies team, what patterns do we see in our responses?
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Report out to large group.
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Large group discussion:
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What are your take-aways about the CGM?
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If we do this again next year, what are our goals for the CGM?
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What commitments can you make or suggestions for future implementation?
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Survey to gauge what our students think of the CGM
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What kind of feedback would be helpful? What do we want to know from our students?
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Brainstorm two questions you would like to see included on a survey of students. See pages 191 and 195 in The Cluster Grouping Handbook for ideas if necessary.
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