February 18th 2006 Fellows Meeting Agenda
- December Activity Questions Fellows will share the answers to their December Activity Questions if possible. Fellows, please remember to bring your answers with you
- What do you do when there is nothing to do?
- What is it that each fellow is doing at the school on a daily basis and what projects have you worked on?
- Are there better ways to improve your efficacy/efficiency?
- How do you make suggestions to the teacher?
- What is the best utilization of your time?
- Is there a better way to utilize our capabilities?
- 2 days in clas w/4hrs to prep - 1 day in class w/12 hrs to prep - 0 days in class w/20hrs to prep?
- Would fewer hours in the class require a teacher to be more involved in the unit creation due to the fellow not being there as the unit continues? Would this force more planning time and therefore more synergy?
- How important is having the teacher's undivided attention during a meeting to work on materials?
- If you could go back to Day 1 & evaluate what you thought your role would be and compare it to what you are experiencing
- What did you see yourself doing?
- How much collaboration did you expect?
- What are you doing? What is the reality of the program?
- What suggestions do you have to improve the program for the future?
- How much inquiry-based teaching have you been incorporating? How often is it at the forefront of your thoughts? What have been your struggles?
- Weekly meetings with teachers -
- How can we create a schedule where we meet with teachers on a weekly basis to plan?
- How effective do you think this would be in increasing your impact to the program?
- Should the GK12 program make this a requirement of the program for the teachers
- Discussion about the individual teams' activities and goals (question 1c)
- What it means to be a visiting scientist?
