11-3-06


 * TE 802 Agenda for 11-3-06**

0) **Housekeeping:** >
 * Roll
 * Pick up resource packet //Pages From the Panic File// from the Copy Center on the 5th floor of Erickson ($8.11 - Cash or check only)
 * [|State of Michigan Requirements] - An Update
 * I posted the parent teacher conference paper Cherice wrote under the Parents section user:gutier50

1) **Learning Logs:** Reflections

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 * What has been painful about the process of learning to teach so far?
 * What feeds or energizes you as both a person and a teacher?
 * If you had more time, what would you do with respect to your teaching that you aren't doing now?

2) **Research & Reflection:** The Emerging Issues Inquiry Project

3) **Insights & Issues:** Nominate insights or issues for discussion

Items raised for discussion at the mentor meeting: > > > >
 * Planning, Pacing, Scaffolding, & Spiraling
 * Balancing The Various Skills
 * Developmentally Appropriate Activities (Fun v. Learning/Teaching from/with the Text)
 * Managing Classroom Activities Effectively
 * Another Look at Grammar
 * When Kids Fail
 * What Interns are Doing Well
 * What Interns Have Said They Need From Their Mentors

4) **Collaboration Stations:** (Nominate a workshop or insert specific topics you'd like to discuss)

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 * Consultation Time with Cherice - Discuss your Inquiry Project Plan & get help with the wiki
 * MiWLA Swap Shop - Share ideas and insights from the MiWLA Conference
 * I attended a great session re: warm-up activities and will run off enough copies of the handout for everyone. user:heinke_raymond
 * Teaching Demonstrations - Anyone want to do one?

5) **Assignments You Should Complete BEFORE Class on 11-3-06:** > > >
 * **Agenda Items -** Nominate items for the agenda by adding them to this page
 * **Insights & Issues -** Post them to Angel if you have them. E-mail me directly about urgent concerns
 * **Inquiry Project Questions -** Post your research question to the wiki in the discussion section of the [|Inquiry-Research-Reflection page].
 * **Long-term Assignments** - Get subscribed to [|FLTEACH], keep working on your inquiry project, videotape yourself teaching
 * **Midterm Evaluation -** E-mail Cherice or post on the [|discussion board] of this page of the wiki:
 * What's working for you?
 * What do you need from class in the upcoming weeks?
 * **Most Successful Activity -** Post the most successful activity you used this month to the wiki (post both on the discussion forum and in the appropriate place on the wiki)
 * **Curriculum Expectations/Guidelines/Standards -** If your mentor teacher is expected to include certain things in the curriculum, complete a certain number of chapters, or cover a certain amount of material by the end of the semester, please bring a copy of those guidelines with you to class.