Collaboration
Purpose
TL is working collaboratively on a unit with 2 teachers in a
grade 2/3 team to study rocks and minerals. The teachers would like to focus on the writing process,
technology, and inquiry project.
Since one teacher would like to focus on the writing process
and the other would like more technology, blogs would be good since they
integrate both writing and technology. The students can go through the process of writing (prewriting,
writing, revising, editing, and good copy) using Google Drawings and Google.docs before publishing on their
blogs. The students can also used
different technologies like Youtube and other website links onto their blogs. Photographs, images, and drawings can be added to their blogs. The blogs can be used to share their processes, discoveries, and reflections
during the inquiry process.
Collaborative Discussion
Questions to be created and answered collaboratively are based upon BC’s New Curriculum for Grades 2 and 3 on Core Competencies, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, and
Art Education. Also, I would use the Systematic Approach and 10 Simple Strategies that are outlined in Ekdahl's Collaboration handout from UBC Course LLED 469.
Pertinent questions to ask are:
Pertinent questions to ask are:
What are the big ideas for the students?
What are the learning standards?
What strategies to access their background knowledge such as using a KWL (Know Wonder Learn) chart?
What strategies to access their background knowledge such as using a KWL (Know Wonder Learn) chart?
How to evaluate the students?
How do the students demonstrate their understanding and learning?
Is it whole group lessons or smaller groups (half with the teacher
and the other half with TL)?
Do they want to students to show their inquiry process individually, pairs, or small groups?
What kind of inquiry process would their students be comfortable with? (structured, guided or opened)
What would the teachers like the TL's role to be such as learning about the Point of Inquiry, modelling questions, how to research on-line, bibliography lesson, content/knowledge building, writing process, science process, and how to blog?
Do they want to students to show their inquiry process individually, pairs, or small groups?
What kind of inquiry process would their students be comfortable with? (structured, guided or opened)
What would the teachers like the TL's role to be such as learning about the Point of Inquiry, modelling questions, how to research on-line, bibliography lesson, content/knowledge building, writing process, science process, and how to blog?
Advance Preparation
Gather Rocks and Mineral Books from the library commons will be put into tubs for the students to begin their inquiry process and provide background knowledge.
Show them how to use Webcat (the Vancouver School Board Online Library) Catalogue and Databases to begin their research.
Look at different inquiry websites on rocks and minerals such as "The Inquiry Process: Seeing the World Through a Scientist's Eye" and Antoinette, T. et al's Rock and Minerals planning template.
Create a blog on my own inquiry (e.g. Why is this a rock and not a mineral?) about rocks and minerals to show the teachers how writing and technology can be combined together in a blog.
Have lesson planning sheets/templates available for the Points of Inquiry and for the BC Curriculum to collaborate together. The Points of Inquiry has examples of technology to be used during the different stages of inquiry.
Here are some links to the New BC Curriculum Planning Template created by different school districts or teachers:
http://bcata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Lesson-Plan-Template.pdf
http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/learningtech/new-curriculum/
http://www.learn71.ca/new-curriculum-draft/
http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/learningtech/new-curriculum/
http://www.learn71.ca/new-curriculum-draft/
Beginning Conversations/Planning Time
Since the teachers are motivated to plan an inquiry unit together, I would be very flexible to their schedule. Morning, lunch and after school times will be available to meet everyones planning time.
During planning time, it is important to model and have the teachers learn how blogs work. Thus, they can see the effectiveness of its usage with both writing and technology in inquiring about rocks and minerals.
We will also work on filling out the different planning sheets and templates that fits their students' inquiry and learning needs.
A good YouTube video for the teachers to watch related to BC's New Curriculum on Science Inquiry:
References
Antonetti, Tara et al. Rocks and Minerals. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://www.csus.edu/indiv/j/jelinekd/edte%20226/unit/rock%20and%20mineral%20unit%20plan%20summer%202009%20(2).pdf
Since the teachers are motivated to plan an inquiry unit together, I would be very flexible to their schedule. Morning, lunch and after school times will be available to meet everyones planning time.
During planning time, it is important to model and have the teachers learn how blogs work. Thus, they can see the effectiveness of its usage with both writing and technology in inquiring about rocks and minerals.
We will also work on filling out the different planning sheets and templates that fits their students' inquiry and learning needs.
A good YouTube video for the teachers to watch related to BC's New Curriculum on Science Inquiry:
References
Antonetti, Tara et al. Rocks and Minerals. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://www.csus.edu/indiv/j/jelinekd/edte%20226/unit/rock%20and%20mineral%20unit%20plan%20summer%202009%20(2).pdf
BC's New Curriculum. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca
The Points of Inquiry: A Framework for Information Literacy in the 21st Century. (2011, January).
Ekdahl, M. Collaboration. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from UBC Course 2017S1-LLED469-93S-
Inquiry-Based Pedagogy in School Library Programs-Delvecchio.
Google.docs. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://www.google.ca/docs/about/
Google Drawings. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://docs.google.com/drawings
Joyce, Stacie et al. Starting Points in Planning: From a BC Teacher's Perspective.
Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/Starting_Points_Draft_6.pdf
Learn 71. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://www.learn71.ca/new-curriculum-draft/
Learning Technology. [Blog]. School District 41. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from
http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/learningtech/new-curriculum/
McAleer, Nancy. [YouTube]. Getting Started with Student Inquiry in Science. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGawWpiDOE&feature=youtu.be
The Inquiry Process: Seeing the World Through a Scientist's Eye. (2011). National Science
Foundation. Retrieved from https://inquiryproject.terc.edu/curriculum/curriculum4/1_underfoot/inv1_2/
Inquiry-Based Pedagogy in School Library Programs-Delvecchio.
Google.docs. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://www.google.ca/docs/about/
Google Drawings. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://docs.google.com/drawings
Joyce, Stacie et al. Starting Points in Planning: From a BC Teacher's Perspective.
Retrieved May 26, 2017 from https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/sites/curriculum.gov.bc.ca/files/Starting_Points_Draft_6.pdf
Learn 71. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://www.learn71.ca/new-curriculum-draft/
Learning Technology. [Blog]. School District 41. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from
http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/learningtech/new-curriculum/
McAleer, Nancy. [YouTube]. Getting Started with Student Inquiry in Science. Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYGawWpiDOE&feature=youtu.be
The Inquiry Process: Seeing the World Through a Scientist's Eye. (2011). National Science
Foundation. Retrieved from https://inquiryproject.terc.edu/curriculum/curriculum4/1_underfoot/inv1_2/
The Points of Inquiry: A Framework for Information Literacy in the 21st Century. (2011, January).
BCTLA Info Task Force. Retrieved from
Webcat.vsb.bc.ca. Vancouver School Board. Retrieved May 26, 2017 from http://webcat.vsb.bc.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=B490662M92414.8892&profile=ls&menu=tab21&ts=1490662692414
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