PD on January 24th: SDAIE_Departments for CFAs_Sixth Grade Meeting

We started in the parent center with Mr. Watson giving us an overview of our PD for today.

Then Meghan went over the goals and objectives for her session:
Goal #1: Increase teacher familiarity with Thinking Maps and being to plan for more consistent/frequent use of Thinking Maps across content areas.

Goal #2: Model teaching strategies ~four corners~ that may be useful for classroom interaction and instruction.

Goal #3: To be responsive to teacher feedback from past trainings:

• Confusion about Thinking Maps v. Graphic organizers. 
• Models of Thinking Maps in content areas.
• More time to plan and collaborate.

Meghan distributed playing cards.

Spades completed a Flow Map about the use of Thinking Maps.

Meghan then explained how she would draw cards so a random student in each group would be presenting the findings.

We then worked in collaborative groups on Thinking Map implementation. After completing our evaluations, we moved into departments to work on CFAs.