FHS Professional Development

Collaborations - Video Questions

2007-01-04T08:40:00.000-08:00

Please respond to the following questions:

1. Are our teachers organized into teams whose members work interdependently to achieve common goals? How might our teachers be organized into teams that focus thier efforts on student learning?

2. What resources could you examine during this process of collective inquiry?

3. What steps have we taken to provide teachers time to collaborate on a regular basis during the school day? What additional steps could be taken?

Mission, Vision, Values, Goals - Video Questions

2007-01-04T08:29:00.000-08:00

Please respond to these questions.

1. Do you feel every teacher is clear on what each student should know and be able to do at each grade level, course, or unit of instruction?

2. What systems do you know about that are in place in your school to monitor each student's learning? When does staff have access to this information on each student's learning?

3. What do you know happens in your school when it becomes evident that a student is not learning? What steps could you take to give additional time and support to students who experience initial difficulty in learning?

January 2 A Professional Learning Community

2007-01-04T08:12:00.000-08:00

These are questions we need to consider as we step back and look at our everyday classroom practice:

MISSION:
1. Why do we exist?
2. What is our core purpose?
3. What is the key fundamental driving force of our school?

VISION:
1. What kind of school can we become?

VALUES:
2. How do we need to behave if we're going to become the kind of school we seek to become?

THREE CRITICAL QUESTIONS THAT SHOULD GUIDE OUR WORK:
1. What is it that we ant our kids to learn?
2. How will we know if they have learned it?
3. How do we respond when they don't learn?

How should our classrooms look if we use these three critical questions to guide our practice?

2006-10-17T12:41:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,
I hope you'll enjoy this new adventure into blogging. This seemed a better way to discuss our professional development than trying to get the whole faculty together. Let me know if you have any requests or changes you would like to see in as we work through our book "Learning By Doing".