Day 5
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Debriefing and connecting
Feedback on yesterday’s reflections
and Facewall postings
A-has continue!
For students to become self-regulating:
Importance of reflecting
Value of critical friends
Understanding of a process that leads to a product
Building process in PEARL
Time for both direct instruction and interactive
work
Intentional groupings to leverage discussions
Using a variety of teaching strategies such as
Simulations (case study profiles)
Role playing
Gaming
Building process in PEARL
Structuring sessions
Framing our work with essential questions
Introducing tools and strategies
Allowing for guided practice
Encouraging application to school situations
Investing in share back and idea exchanges
Reflecting and using reflections as formative
assessments
Using assessments to adjust and modify next
sessions
Essential questions—Day 5
How do we find good community mentors?
How do we make the most of conferencing
time?
What should we include in our team plans to
work with our students in the upcoming year?
How should we collaborate on co-teaching
and co-assessment?
Challenge 10
Community mentors:
how do we find them?
What is mentoring?
Structured one-to-one relationship or
partnership that focuses on the needs of the
mentored participant
Supportive relationship sustained
over a period of time, usually
between a novice and an expert
A mentoring relationship
Fosters caring and supportive relationships
Encourages individuals to develop to their full
potential
Helps an individual to develop his/her vision
for the future
Helps develop active community partnerships
Breaks down old barriers
What are the benefits
of mentoring?
Increases motivation
Strengthens critical thinking and problem
solving capacities
Empowers independence
Builds bridges to working comfortably and
responsibly with adults
Prepares students to become future mentors
Help Hawaii Schools
Folks from VISTA have designed a new
website to use…PERFECT place to find
mentors and other help for senior projects!!
Types of mentors
Teacher/school advisor
Community mentor
Expert contributor
Refer to: Mentor Tips
Student/mentor connection
Case studies
Revisit our students
Essential question
Research plan
Brainstorm connections
Mind map activity
Refer to: SCS—Stage 3
Challenge 11
How do we make the most of
conferencing time?
Question
The research paper:
are there alternatives to it?
Types of
traditional research papers
Analysis
Argument
Essay
Expository
Interpretive
Comparative
Cause and effect
Descriptive
Refer to: What’s in a Research Paper?
Alternatives to the paper
Research journal
Database search
Comparative analysis of sources
Narrative
Coverage of controversial issue
SWOT (strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, threats)
More alternatives to the paper
Annotated timeline
Interpreting primary
sources
Annotated
pathfinder
“Everything but the
paper”
School action plans
School action plans
Create a tentative plan for conducting
research with students
Focus on learning outcomes for the research
phase
Use the template provided
Refer to: School Action Plan
School action plans
Develop a possible timeline
Specific research skills to teach
When to teach
Who leads
Who supports
What resources to use
How to assess
Break: networking time!
Cross-team sharing
Lunch and networking!
Reflecting on our journey
Reflecting on the Journey
My Journey Began…
Where I was at the beginning of the Institute
AHA!s Along the Way…
What I realized, learned or developed
My Next Step(s)…
Where I will go from here
Our goal in PEARL
We build a professional learning community
together!
Our goal: building a community
Appreciate our different strengths and talents
Freely exchange ideas and resources
Agree on common goals
Visualize where we want to go together
Plan next steps
Our specific PEARL targets
Understand the nature of research and what
it requires of students
Identify the specific learning gaps
Create and exchange examples of best
teaching and learning strategies
Collaboratively design teaching-learning
plans for student research
Our specific PEARL targets
Assess for student learning and achievement
Reflect on our own learning in the process
We hope that the institute
allowed for…
Re-affirming
Re-visiting
Re-visioning
Re-inventing
Re-energizing
Looking ahead
Assessment: complete today
Summer Institute reflection (Day 5 Journey
Journal)
Completed on-line in Laulima
Pre-post institute survey
Assessment: complete after
institute
Student assent and parental consent forms
We need your help. Please print and distribute to
participating students/parents
Forms available in Laulima
Collect at the beginning of the research process
Mail all completed forms to the PEARL Team
Assessment: complete after
institute
Team Progress Report
Completed once a month in September, October,
November, January, and February
Reports and Logs will be completed in Laulima
Similar format to Journey Journal
Can be completed as a team or as a thread of
individuals
Each team member is required to respond to their
buddy team
**Optional** If you would like to submit a private
reflection, please e-mail us
Assessment: complete after
institute
What learning outcomes were targeted in research this
month? How did each member contribute to the learning
outcomes?
How were these outcomes addressed?
What tools or strategies did each team member try this
instructional period that you learned about/adapted from the
institute exchanges?
What challenges did each member of the team face? What
are potential methods of overcoming them?
What successes did your team and each member achieve?
What has each member of the team learned from this
experience?
What would each member of the team like to change next
time?
What’s up next for each team member?
Assessment: complete after
institute
Copies of assent and consent forms will be
mailed to participants to deliver to principal
List of student participants with both assent and
consent forms signed will be sent to each team
After the research phase (no later than April)
Student survey (only students with assent and consent
forms signed)
Teacher/librarian post-professional development
survey
On-site interviews
Assessment: complete after
institute
Final Portfolio
Updated School Action Plan (individual or team)
Three Learning Plans that target some of the areas that were
covered at the Institute (individual or team)
Include any organizers, assessment tools, etc. used with each lesson
Three samples of student work (at different levels of proficiency) for each
lesson
Assessment for samples of student work
Assessment of lesson’s effectiveness using Research Rubric Self-Assessment
or an alternative assessment tool (list % of students at each level of
proficiency).
Culminating personal reflection-template provided (individual)
OPTIONAL: Example of one completed student research
paper/product and how it was assessed (please remove or cover
the student’s name) (individual or team)
Assessment Sample Timeline
1
Prior
2
During
3
After
Assent/consent forms for students
Mail completed forms to the PEARL Team
Team progress reports (September, October,
November, January, February)
Student survey, teacher/librarian survey
Interview
Final portfolio
Enjoy the rest of summer!
I’m ready
to find a
mentor!
I can’t wait
to present
my
findings!
That’s
from that
famous
designer’s
new
collection
isn’t it?
Nice shirt,
Benson.
Yeah, it’s
Couture!
Hello,
world!
Daily reflections in Laulima