Week of February 24-28

Learning Tasks for Monday, February 24

1.  Writing into the Day

2.  Common Instructional Framework Data

Last week, you collected information about CIF strategies in your classes.  Today, we'll start collecting that data and making inferences based on our findings.

• Finish filling in the CIF chart in your packet.
• Tally Up:  how many people prefer each CIF strategy?

We will enter our information here.

3.  Brainstorming

On Monday, we will be presenting our findings in the gym to Mr. Biehl, Dr. Chapman, Ms. Foushee, Ms. Brown, and others who have heard about the awesome work you guys are doing!  We have some choices to make:  how can we best represent our data?  What visuals and data should we include?  What audience should we address?

4.  Planning

What resources do we need in order to put together our presentation?  By the end of class, you should have a concrete plan in place for Monday's presentation.  We will work on that presentation in class this week.

***Resources that may come in handy:

• Prezi
• NCES Graphs
• Bitstrips
• Glogster

Learning Tasks for Tuesday, February 25

1.  Writing into the Day

Create a list of your favorite things.

2.  Data Collection

Which two CIF strategies do you find most effective?  Least effective?  Document your responses.  You will be including this data in your graphs!

3.  Graphing

Using either the NCES Graphs website or good ol' pen & paper, create a graph/chart that depicts our class' CIF results.

Partners	Graphs
Amil and Westley	Questioning, Literacy Groups
Cynthia, Michael, and Janelle	Collaboration, EQ Clarified What to Focus on
Jazzmon and Austin	Classroom Talk, EQ Made Material Relevant
Jeremiah and Keyonna	Scaffolding, Big Ideas Helped Me Make Connections within this Class
Taliyah and Courtney	Write to Learn, Big Ideas Helped Me Make Connections to Other Classes

4.  Discuss

What patterns are you noticing in the data so far?  What inferences can you make from our class data?

5. Conclusion

How do your responses in the experiment packet compare to those of your classmates?  Does everyone agree on which CIF strategies are most effective?  Why do you think this is?

Learning Tasks for Thursday, February 27

1. Writing into the Day

2.  Presentations

a.  Review "fire-able" and "promote-able" behaviors with your partner(s).  Make sure that you both agree on the behaviors and consequences! You may fire or promote your partner at any time during the project.

b.  Finishing planning your project and obtain the necessary materials.  Work diligently to create a unique, creative project that showcases what we've learned about CIF strategies, EQs, Big Ideas, and learning.

c. Write one TPEQEA paragraph each for the most and least effective CIF strategies.

Partners
Amil and Westley
Cynthia, Michael, and Janelle
Jazzmon and Austin
Jeremiah and Keyonna
Taliyah and Courtney