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PD Agenda 9.14.9

Pick one of the following questions: · What are three ways you currently use DI in your classroom? · What are three ways you would like to use DI in your classroom, but, for whatever reason, you just haven’t? · What are three questions you have about DI that you would like to have answered?
 * 1) Begin with 5 minute free write/think pair share activity

· Distribute handout reporting back on prompt from summer faculty meeting (what would you like PD to be or not to be?)
 * 1) Getting at some assumptions about professional development

· More assumptions: we teach like we were taught, or in the preferred ways we teach, and we need to find ways to teach in the preferred learning styles/modalities of our students.

· To do better, which we must, a good place to start is with a learning test

· Distribute VARK questionnaire, take it. Then, do a brief reflective free write if how you scored on your questionnaire matches up with how you usually teach your students. Consider instructional strategies specifically. Share results

· With still a different person or group, define DI in your own words. · Key terms to get at: interest, readiness, and learning styles · In each, we need to get to know students and how they learn best, and use diagnostic, formative and summative assessments to always make sure our instruction works for our kids
 * 1) Differentiated Instruction – what is it, how can we begin, what is realistic

· We meet with our PD coordinator this week, so we should have some sort of reading materials coming soon · Expect some reading, and some reflective writing, along with particular ways you will use what we do in our PD in your classroom · Distribute a list of adaptations/accommodations; by the time we meet again, please attempt to use two of these in your classroom where you see fit, and be prepared to report back about your experiences.
 * 1) Looking ahead:

Closing thoughts:

If you are interested in giving the learning styles test we took to your students, please let me know, as I can email you a copy.

The point of PD is to develop professionally, and for this to be useful. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions as to how to improve what I am doing

Finally, I encourage you to take our time in PD very seriously. This should go without saying, but please take the time to do the readings, and assignments/tasks given to you, and to make our meetings on Mondays as useful as possible. I firmly believe that well before we can ask our students to develop personally and academically, just to name two, we must be willing to do the same ourselves.