2. Welcome and Hellos! Introduce yourself- school 1 Hope and 1 fear for this work that lies ahead. Process- introductions work on building community Priming the room for thinking and collaborative work

3. The Plan Training Time to work together and prepare Facilitate your session with leads Reflect Repeat in December

4. Learning Goals for Participants Shift our teaching stance Moving from teaching as telling to teaching as facilitating learning. Facilitating independent learners and learning 21 st Century skills College and Career Ready

5. Powerful Learning What was your most powerful learning experience? Try to give an example of an outside of school learning experience. Get into triads or groups of 4 Each share a story (2 minutes) of a powerful learning experience List the common elements among your stories. Each triad share common elements with the group

6. Sam Chaltain Faces of Learning What was your most powerful personal experience in a learning community- inside or outside school? Who was your most effective teacher and what was it about that person that made him or her so effective? Challenging Engaging Supportive Relevant Experiential

7. Process Discuss that “activity” as a learning tool. What was the learning/discovery/exploration? What techniques were used? Why did we choose it for now?

8. Facilitate means Help bring about Ease Connections to Chaltain Supportive Challenging Relevant Engaging

9. Facilitating Learning Engaging learners not Teaching kids Constructing learning vs. transmitting information “I told them that last week!” problem

10. Why do you think facilitating learning is critical to an inquiry approach? What does it look like? Take a moment to journal about this idea. Share with your partner.

11. Process How is your understanding of facilitation changed or grown? Personal time to reflect and connect ideas Make our thinking public How did I facilitate this?

12. 10 Qualities of Successful Lessons Plan lessons with your students in mind Use a predictable lesson structure Make listening to students the <3 of your lesson Keep the body of the lesson on open ended topic Never lose track of the lesson objective Use facilitating techniques to probe student thinking Listen and invite students to do most of the talking Set up students to work independently Help students develop the social skills for successful peer interaction Work with students to create community The Lesson Planning Handbook: Essential Strategies that Inspire Student Thinking and Learning (2010). Peter Brunn, Scholastic: NY, NY.

13. Get into triads. Prioritize this list. Pick your groups’ top 3. Give reasons why you think it is most important for us right now, for this fifth grade unit, for this type of learning, OR for our students.

14. Discussion reasoning

15. Process Rationale- for letting you have choices Choice means voice- Comes from a need or desire to know How can you create choice in your sessions?

16. Make listening to students the <3 of your lesson Third Space Construct opportunities for students to make their thinking public Include checks for understanding- process and content Accountable talk Data collection, kid watching, artifacts Organized plan to analyze the data to reflect on what students are learning & what gaps they may have

17. Talk to your partner Look at the diagram. What do you remember about Third Space? How would you tell someone else about this idea? What are the important points to remember?

18. Kuhlthau, C., Maniotes, L., Caspari, A. GUIDED INQUIRY

19. Use facilitating techniques to probe student thinking Spend less time explaining lesson content MORE time engaging students around it. How? Design lessons with student engagement in mind. Flip lessons from explaining to engaging. QUESTION- probe thinking Uncover students meaning making Use ‘turn to your partner’ to increase participation OPEN ENDED questions Listen – value student thinking- Third Space

20. Help students develop the social skills for successful peer interaction Routine – simple but powerful How to look at one another Take turns How to add on to one another’s thinking Explore - Pair Share Require students to use full sentences Accountable talk – sentence stems for talking to one another

21. Process

22. Presenter Feedback tool + - delta Questions- Survey Generally, reflections tell you how did I do as a presenter, how did I facilitate learning today, what did participants take away, did I meet your needs as a learner and/or the learning objective

23. Time to plan for your sessions What questions do you have for me?