8AM Sunday

One hour Video Tape of Grant Wiggins and Jay showing and discussing backward design

9AM

Kai Chu and Elaine Moy described the effort to build a Lesson Design site at Humboldt State College. The site is still seeking funding, but the Conference Report is posted there (www.humboldt.edu/~iet/center.htm)

9:30AM

Kathy Egawa, from the National Council of Teachers of English, described the NCTE’s MARCO POLO PROJECT, a Lesson Study project now being formulated and developed.

Kathy indicated that the project was still in its formative stage and that she would provide an update for conference participants when the project developed a shape.

Pat E. provided the following notes on Kathy’s presentation:

Co Learn, a center of Literacy Education Achievement, Research, and Networking.  $1500 a year for a school
They have a research team who come up with questions posted monthly.
A huge national database of what teachers are doing and what they are accomplishing a resource rich site There will be links to NCTE articles.

They have archives of NCTE-TALK
It’s a listserv.

Each site needs to select a site leader.  Teachers need face-to-face meetings.

Teachers sharing their most successful practices. Lessons that impact students.
A conversation with other teachers

Essential questions are posted for each level of language arts.
You could serve as a school site coordinator or serve as a Co Learn Mentor.

This idea resulted from teachers complaining about top down scripted worthless in services.

Supporting the development of adolescent reading. an NCTE notebook.

Living the curriculum experience.

NCTE needs to apply to be a provider for AB 466 for in-service

ReadWriteSite
Lessons, Professional Development, Web Resources

Student Tools
Character Trait Templates
On line Journal

Educator
Story Web?
Story time lines
All National Geographic Maps are available on line.
What NCTE needs from us
We will be outlining what a lesson design needs. A review board that would look at lessons, Individual authors or author communities paid for writing lesson plans.

Our lessons will be writing to the National Standards--five lessons for each standard K-8 Who the key people are? What does it really mean to write curriculum for someone else?  She would love any ideas we have for the lesson-writing project.

In Japan bookstores have stacks of books on lesson design.  But no lesson design meets the needs of every student.  Thus these resources are only a beginning.  It’s our responsibility to see that lesson design is an on-going process.  We are the best experts and must take initiative to keep from having other methods being imposed on us.
All of us care about the larger picture of lesson design.

NOTE: Kathy provided much support throughout the conference. In addition, she typed up a bibliography of selected books and materials on display at the conference (Thanks, Kathy)

 

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