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Today's Agenda and Notes

Date:  July 24

Special Guests

Dr. Diane McGrath, Kansas State University professor emerita and Corvallis resident!

Terry-Smith , Hannibal, MO project teacher and doctoral student, Pepperdine

9:00- 9:45

•    Big Ideas - An Authentic Education eJournal

•    Guiding student work with Essential Questions (Understanding by Design) Driving Questions (Buck Institute of Education)  Examples from Intel Unit Plan Index

•    Planning assessment: Intel Assessment Strategies

•    Creating an Assessment Plan – process and product assessment  Example from Lights, Camera, Reaction!

View assessments in context in these Intel Unit Plans

Monster Swap

Virtual Ambassadors

Designer Genes

Equality-Are Some More Equal Than Others?

Lights, Camera, Reaction!

Help Wanted: Physicist!

Adopt, Adapt, Create Rubrics in Rubistar 

9:45 break

10:00 Project Classroom - Terry Smith

11:00 Dr. Diane McGrath - Expertise in PBL, how the teaching and learning enterprise changes.

Homework:

Readings:

Chapter 7 - A Guiding Hand- Keeping a Project Moving

Chapter 8 - Building Connections and Branching Out

Respond to Ning discussion prompt(s)

Activity 1- Describe an assessment plan (a new page branching off your wiki ala project sketch. If you have time, create draft versions of performance tasks, rubrics, scoring guides, tests, essay prompts, or other assessment tools you will use prior to, during and at the end of your project.

Activity 2- Create a project plan (Create your own! Go to "new page" tab, name your page Barb's Project Plan, select template called "project plan"

Other project planning forms (if you prefer):

Buck Institute: BIE_ProjectPlanningForms.doc

A hybrid: PBL Instructional Design Processes.doc

Please note:  Assessment plan and project plan (includes sketch) are the products which will,  in addition to attendance, be the basis for a "PASS" in this course. These are due via email or in this wiki Tuesday, August 5.

Please take today's notes here: