District Wide Prefessional Development Day

Professional Learning Activities 

September 23, 2016 is our first professional development day of the school year.  Due to the fact that teh beginning of the year is filled with clerical tasks and duties we will only have an abreviated meeting and allow staff to work to catch and meet all past and pending deadlines.

As we work toward our IB goals we will discuss our Plans of Inquiry for the Thematic Units we are currently teaching.

Please follow the link below and review the contents of the website and the associate pictures of student work products.  Use this information to guide the development of your instructional practices during the demonstration block where we engage students  in thematic instruction.

Tomorrow we will discuss this information and have each team review their POI for our first thematic unit.

https://istpyp.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/key-concepts-in-the-curriculum/

Agenda

7:45 AM - Sign In

8:30 AM 

1. ACIP and Technology Plan Review 

2.  IB Thematic instruction Team Presentations (10 minutes) - Each Team will present to the faculty their thematic unit plan of Inquiry for this month.  The discusssion should include;

a.  essential question / central idea

b.  standards included in unit

c.  learning objectives

d.  resources and activites used to engage learners 

e. details of group discussions and projects

e.  evaluation of student learning

9:30 AM

3.  Computer Lab - (Educate Alabama, Advance Ed Surveys and Easy Tech)

Lunch 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM

3:15 PM - Dismissed