St. Francis of AssisiTLLP 2013-2014

A Collaborative Journey into Team Planning and Pedagogical Documentation

How it all began…

Why team planning? Our plan took into account what

we have learned about in the K-2 Inquiry and EPCI over the past few years

Incorporate the use of Mentor Texts

Incorporate Higher Order Thinking

Investigate pedagogical documentation

Engage in collaborative assessment

Collaborative Planning

Pedagogical Documentati

on

= TLLP

Overview of our TLLP

Collaborative Planning

Our Team’s Approa

ch

Uses Big Ideas and Catholic Themes to

Anchor Learning

Uses Rich Mentor Texts to Create a Strong Foundation for

teaching Reading

Strategies and “Digging Deeper”

Creates an Environment that Supports Higher Order Thinking

Embraces the spirit of

intentional play-based learning and creates opportunities

for inquiry

Sample Literacy Plan Using Big Ideas and Mentor Texts

Sample Monthly Focus

NovemberMaking the

World a Better Place

Building Deep Connections

Big Idea

: Hop

e

Capturing Student LearningWrite down answers given on chart paper during class discussionsWrite anecdotal notes while the students are discussing possible answers with their Accountable Talk PartnersRecord the conversations with an iPad, video camera, audio recorder.ConferencingPhoto BoothUse the information gathered in a writing task after a group conversation.

Why higher- order thinking?

Higher –order thinking skills involve the learning of complex judgmental skills such as critic and problem solving. According to Bloom’s Taxonomy, analyzing, evaluating, and creating are the most complex kinds of thought. These three more complex kinds of thought are called higher-order thinking.

BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

Bloom’s Taxonomy is a widely accepted psychological theory that categorizes different kinds of learning in ascending order from least to most complex.

Pedagogical Documentation

Our Set Up…- Each Kindergarten Classroom has:- 2 64 GB iPads (One for the teacher and one for the ECE)- 5 iPad Minis - 1 Mac Book Pro- 55” Flatscreen Smart TV- TV* Also our French teacher and Music Specialist have a 64 GB iPad to document learning

Our Learning to Date

Involvement Creation of Student iPortfolios Photo Streaming - to Mac Book iPhoto - Face Recognition Photo Booth - used to capture learning such as, a

reading conference, PM Benchmarking Adding Audio Files to Photos Flagging Files to indicate that reteaching is required Air dropping with TV onto flatscreen TV to

highlight the student’s thinking and learning. This technology can easily be used throughout the day for consolidation

How is our project different? Our students are going to become part of

documenting their own learning. With explicit teaching and modeling our students

will learn how to capture their work using the mini iPads.

Our hope is that our youngest learners will be able to: take photos of their work, interview a friend, explain their creation or work in a video clip so that it can then be saved to their iPortfolio.

At the end of the year, we intend to take key pieces from each child’s iPortfolio and add them into their ePortfolio which can then move with the child to their new class or new school if he or she moves or is posted somewhere in Ontario.

A few weeks in… and 10 months to go…

Teacher Learning

Excitement

Understanding the

Parameters and use of

Video Documentatio

n as an Educational

Tool

Becoming more Familiar

with the Technology

Time to Work as a

Team

File Storage

Privacy

Questions?