The Beginning of the Road - Oct/11 First Meeting

Our first release day was a very productive and helpful session. In addition to ordering and discussing book choices, we created 2 meaningful student surveys to help us plan and edit our assessments for future use. This will also be helpful to know students better and eventually present our findings to other teacher groups. The focus for the next month or so will be to create and implement the Choice Boards, Learning Centres, RAFTs, and Cubing activities. Personally, I am anxious to use the Learning Centres with my GLE/ENG1L0 class and their Romeo and Juliet unit. Depending on the success of this method it may something that can be easily adapted and used in other classes and with other topics. In the end, this TLLP will be most valuable to our peers if we can provide them with real techniques that can be adapted to suit their individual disciplines. I think one of the main criticisms about PD is that it is irrelevant and only good in theory. I guess my personal goals here are to learn something that will make me a better teacher and teach something that will make someone else a better teacher. That is after all - the point!