For Language Arts Teachers

Narrative for Tools from the Language Arts Professional Learning Community (PLC) at Academy of International Studies at Woodburn, OR:

Notes from the Language Arts PLC :

This section contains some sample products from this group’s work as a collaborative team and reflects an evolution that some of the other PLC teams in AIS have not yet reached  but are moving toward.

The notes from the Language Arts PLC meetings, if reviewed chronologically, might help outside viewers see the evolution of our work during 2009-10.

The documents that show scaffolding represent where we have arrived with identifying “proficiencies”.  This group was able to pull out from their content area what we and the state are referring to as Essential Skills.  The most important aspect of the work here is that it is scaffolded from the end of year 12 and from the end of each course.  The descriptors are student performance benchmarks and attempt to describe what the student looks like and sounds like at each benchmark.

Language Arts Proficiencies - Learning Targets

12th Grade Outcomes
Expository writing proficiency rubric
LA Plan for articulating skills across levels
LA Proficiencies revised 5.12.10
proficiency learning targets Literary Scene

Teaching Tools - Protocols - Strategies

A protocol for looking at student work v.3
A Teaching Plan for Scaffolding the Skills LA I_1
A Teaching Plan for Scaffolding the Skills LA II
A Teaching Plan for Scaffolding the Skills LA III_1
A Teaching Plan for Scaffolding the Skills LA IV
Conferring Notes Template on writing
Questions for Conferring
Teacher and Student Roles Conferring 9.29.09
The Architecture of Effective Mini lessons

Language Arts PLC Meeting Notes

PLC notes 9.29.09
PLC notes 9.30.09
PLC notes 10.7.09
PLC notes 10.20.09
PLC Notes 12.09.09
A PLC Agenda 6.2.10 
PLC notes 1.13.10
PLC Notes 1.27.10
PLC notes 2.10.10
PLC Notes 4.14.10
PLC notes 5.12.10