Jennifer had students run a practice seminar and she videoed the experience of her students. She then provided students a rubric for how to communicate and allowed them to watch the video of themselves and pick out what good looked like and areas they needed to improve in. She really took time to use students to model the experience she wanted all students to have! I have no doubt that all students will participate in a meaningful manner this week when they run their seminar for her!
If any of you are interested in running a Socratic Seminar in your class, Jennifer is a our expert! I hope to have an opportunity at our next PD day to learn from Jennifer about this great teaching tool! She has great rubrics that I am sure she will share!
Important Information:
Tis the Season - Please find our "Home Alone" Version of 12 days of Christmas in your mailboxes! Something fun for the last few days before break! Monday we will have Auntie Anne pretzels as a bonus day - delivered to the high school office around 12:00 p.m.
Early College Mentor Meeting: Dana is leading us in an Early College Mentor meeting on Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m. in the high school library. She sent an email to the teachers it will affect. We look forward to seeing all of you there!
CTE Open House - Thursday, December 8th will be a BIG day! Perry Central will be hosting a lunch and learn for all of our community partners along with a ribbon cutting for our CTE building. Many students and teachers will be involved: Mrs. Howe's Honors English 12 class is developing an advocacy presentation and Carrie Guillaume, Josh Craney, Tim Ball, Michael Jarboe, and Kris Walsh will have students participate as well. Our goal is to show our community the great things happening at Perry Central and find more ways to create partnerships that benefit our students and community.
** By the way, as next year's legislative session gets closer to starting, you are going to hear a lot about High School Redesign and Diploma Flexibility. Tara Bishop was asked to sit on a panel at the Superintendent's Association Conference with Indiana Superintendent of Education, Katie Jenner, so she could talk about the work at Perry Central and how we are already working in this "Redesign" space. The work we are doing to increase STEM opportunities, connecgting to industry partners and credentials of currency through our Early College High School and Industry Certifications is helping us stay ahead of the game! It will be an interesting legislative year, but one that will help us move forward with the work we are doing. Kudos to all of you for helping make it happen!
Assistant Lunch and Learn: Friday, December 9th, we will have an Assistant Lunch and Learn. The Office will be providing pizza on this day. Special Education teachers have been working to develop this training opportunity. We hope to make it a monthly event! I know some of you eat lunch 5th period. If you can please email me if this is the case, we can make arrangements for one of your WIN classes to be covered so you can attend. Unless you hear differently, we will meet in the high school library. This will be during both lunches - so only come during your lunch time.
Resources:
PBL Resources: As we continue on this journey to authentic learning opportunities, I want to share resources with you! I found this information from Trevor Muir. He has a lot of great ideas and a book that talks about how to set your room up for collaboration! HERE are some resources I thought may be helpful as you think about moving forward in the PBL/Workplace Challenge World!
Unite and Connect: PASSWORD is a fun game to play with students, especially around vocabulary you are working on for your subject! Thought I would share this resource - could be a fun Unite and Connect activity or a game to fill some time in a meaninful way!
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