Math+-+8th+Grade+-+Meeting+Agendas

For May 19th: Anne to teach us how to use the labsheets for proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.

For May 12th: Look at LFP, are there parts we can not teach, others to focus on.

For May 5th: no mtg, LB out

For April 28th: Wrapping up F&W, how did kids do unit test?

For April 21st: April break, no meeting

For April 14th: LB at math mtg all day, no meeting

For April 7th: 8th grade field trip, no meeting

For March 31st: Looking and GLE's, NECAP data, curriculum.

For March 24th:

For March 17th: Where are we all in F&W? How are the kids doing with it?

For March 10th: -Look at F&W and start talking about learner outcomes etc.

For March 3rd: All to have "taken" the MSA unit test. Then we'll talk about answers and what we expect for answers.

For Feb 10th: Look at MSA unit test. Talking about scoring, length of time to give students, etc.

For Feb 3rd: Talk about books for this year, which should we teach after looking at the alignment with the common core standards.

For January 27, 2011: -Check-in, where are we? -How did kids do on the Invest 4 slope quiz? -Looking ahead: MSA unit test

For January 20, 2011: talk about scoring the invest 4 quiz

For January 13, 2011: look at invest 4 quiz, any changes to be made?

For January 6, 2011 -Create a quiz for MSA investigation 4

For December 16, 2010: - MSA Invest 2 quiz: edit last question, scoring? - order to teach invest. 3 & 4

For Dec 9th, 2010: -Please bring feedback on how kids are doing. -Did anyone else give an Invest 1 quiz? If so, how did kids do? -Looking at Invest 2.

For December 2nd, 2010: -finalize budget -MSA: where are we, how are kids doing?

For November 18th, 2010: 1.) C&S unit test-how did kids do? 2.) Look at MSA-how to condense and combine concepts 3.) possible math budget: Matt said that there's some money in the budget for math audio visual. Are there items that we would like?

For Nov 12th 2009: Continue with grading/scoring the C&S Unit Test.

For Nov 5th: Look at the unit assessments/test. Decide if there are questions we would omit and/or change. We'll also plan to use this as a common assessment.

For October 29th: Partner Quizzes, pros/cons.

For October 1, 2009: We didn't get to looking at our CMP2 essential outcomes last week, will do on 10/1.

For Sep 24th: -Look at the CMP2 essential outcomes...do we need to add/delete/edit any?

June 11th Finalze/double check new essential outcomes. Get list to Brian and Cynthia.

June 4th Laura out sick, no meeting.

May 28th Continue new essential outcomes.

May 21st Complete survey for Brian.

May 7th & 14th Look through new books and come up with new aligned essential outcomes.

April 16, 2009 Were are we in the book? What topics do we want to hit before June? End of the year Exam: Are we all giving one? What topics will be on it?

March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9 Continue numbering books

February 26, 2009 We need to sort through the new 8th grade textbooks. Who gets what? Start numbering the materials.

February 12, 2009 We need to have a discussion around making HS recommendations. What do we use as guidelines to know where to place students in either Algebra 1 vs. 1A.

February 5, 2009 Continuing with slope: where are we with teaching this topic? Can we share materials or tools to help all 8th grade students understand slope.

January 29, 2009 From last week's meeting, we decided to teach graphing and slope before the MEA's. Today's meeting will revolve around sharing our teaching materials and to discuss how students are doing with learning this material.

January 22, 2009 With MEA's coming up, I would like us to look ahead in the book to see if there are topics that we want to at least get students familiar to (not mastery) before the MEA test. I want to generate a list of topics, create a time line, and talk about teaching strategies for these topics.

January 15, 2009 Cynthia Martin sent out an e-mail regarding purchasing the new math textbooks. Our meeting will be used to discuss this e-mail, and to get feedback back to her.

Jan 8, 2009 -Looking at topics to create common assessments for.

Dec 18th, 2008 -We need to collect our data of students who met or didn't meet the standards on our 2 common assessments given so far this year.

Dec 11, 2008 -Look for upcoming topics that we can create common assessments for.

December 4, 2008 -What are we currently teaching? What's working/not working? -What's coming up? What topic(s) can we make another summative assessment for? -Thoughts on units for CMP II to teach next year?

November 20, 2008 -Look at the "Solving Equations" Summative Assessment that we all gave. -Were there common mistakes among all students? -Discuss teaching strategies that seemed to help students learn.

November 6, 2008 -Look at "Writing Expressions and Equations Summative Assessment"

October 30, 2008 -Look at my notes from the MEA conference -Ideas of topics on math posters?

October 16, 2008 1.) Look at Writing Expressions and Equations Summative Assessment. Discuss how to score it, so that all 8th graders will be assessed the same way.

2.) Discuss teaching activities/lessons that will lead up to this assessment.

October 9, 2008 -early release day schedule

October 2, 2008 1.) Look at common assessments created last year.

2.) Look at our 20 essential outcomes, do we need to change any?

3.) Decide on an upcoming topic to use for another common assessment ( to create at next meeting)

September 25, 2008 1.Meet with Brian to discuss our questions from last week’s meeting. -Should we be using our time to make assessments for a book that won’t be being used next year? -Can we get materials for the new 8th grade books and use our time looking through those? Maybe make assessments that align with that program? -Could we also work with Anne to learn about the new math program and how she’s finding it to work this year? -How do we run our meetings when three of us are teaching out of the Math Thematics book, and one is using Connected Math? -Could we still use PLC time to discuss instructional strategies for teaching out of the Math Thematics book and/or skills that are covered in both math textbooks?

September 18, 2008 1. Set meeting times

2. Goals/Objectives

3. Look at the assessments we made last year, re-evaluate

5/12 agenda discuss "where we are in curriculum" and teaching techniques discuss nwea analysis discuss future of topics for last plc meetings

5/8/ Disussed NWEA results

Discussed ways to use NWEA data once all students have taken it

5/1 No meeting - we used PLC time to work on our "assignments" from Cynthia Martin regarding textbook adoption

4/17 no meeting next meeting, we'll categorize student performance on slope and application test

4/10 analyze results of common asssessment 4/3
 * discuss in detail teaching strategies, assignments and timeline of teaching slope.

Thursday, 3/27 ("graph sketcher) and slope slider)
 * discuss/demonstrate computer software to graph equations and investigate slope and intercept of linear equations
 * discuss next steps to sharing information, strategies and assessments on slope
 * set agenda for next meeting

Thursday, 3/20 Work on common assessment on slope. discuss teaching strategies for covering slope

discuss the degree of understanding and nuances of slope that we expect kids to understand.