PLC presentation Norms & SMART goals
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Learning Goal:
To better understand the PLC process and how it
works at Strathmore Secondary College.
What are PLCs?
What the hell are FFTs?
Why are we doing them?
Professional Learning Communities will involve teachers
collaborating on best practice to improve student achievement
at Year 7 and Year 8.
Faculty Focus Teams will involve teachers collaborating on
curriculum and learning tools to improve student achievement
at Year 9 and Year 10.
Each team will be focusing on improving their practice to
improve student learning. Both are guided by norms that each
member agrees to.
Differences: PLCs have SMART goals set by the team. FFTs have
an objective and agenda set by the faculty coordinator.
PLC groups
Year 7 – TE (convener), DP, TT, VP
Year 7 – CF (convener), DU, CD, KM
Year 8 – TH (convener), PT, FV, TL
Year 8 – JP (convener), MN, GY, EC
FFT
Year 9 – LS, BA, PN
Develop rubric for persuasive writing (Present at fac meeting Feb 19
Moderate and collect samples of work.
Year 10 – GV, OS, NK
Develop a rubric for Justice (Present to faculty at meeting Feb 19)
Moderating and collecting samples of work on Justice (distribute to Year 10
team)
Develop a rubric for Cartoon Analysis (Present to fac meeting March 26)
English Language – DN, LD
Focus
Establishing team norms
Setting SMART goals
Establishing norms
Underpin all good collaborative work
Ensures all team members contribute and are
accountable
Allows us to develop commitment and trust with
one another
Guidelines
Everyone needs to be clear on the commitments
made to each other regarding how the team will
work together.
Commitments need to be stated as explicit
behaviors.
Criteria for team norms
The norms have clarified our expectations of one
another.
All members of the team participated in creating
the norms. All voices were heard.
The norms are stated as commitments to act in
certain ways.
All members have commitment to honoring the
norms.
Team must establish a process for addressing
violations of the norms
For example
In order to make our team meetings positive and productive experience
for all members, we make the following collective commitments to each
other:
Begin and end out meeting on time and stay fully engaged during each
meeting
Maintain a positive attitude at team meetings – no complaining unless we
offer a better alternative.
Listen respectfully to each other
Contribute equally to the workload
Make decisions based on consensus
Encourage one another to honor out commitments and candidly discuss
our concerns when we feel a member is not living up to those
commitments
Fully support each other’s efforts to improve student learning.
Always take minutes and send them to DP.
Begin meeting by revisiting norms and previous minutes.
SMART goals
Strategic and specific
Measurable
Attainable
Results orientated
Time bound
For example
SMART Goal:
Current reality: Last year, 85% of our students met or exceeded
the target score of 3 on each strand of out summative writing
task.
SMART Goal: This year, at least 90% of our students will meet or
exceed the target score of 3 on each strand of the summative
writing prompt.
Clarify the essential writing skills
By the end of the year students will be able to:
Develop a plan for writing.
Focus on a central argument.
Support an argument with logic, reason and
evidence.
Use words, phrases, and sentences to create fluency
and cohesion.
Provide a concluding statement and section that
supports the central argument.
Edit final copies for grammar , capitalization,
punctuation and spelling
Strategies and Action Steps
In order to achieve our SMART goal, we will:
Clarify the essential writing skills.
Develop monthly common writing prompts
Agree on criteria by which we will judge the quality
of student writing
Practice applying criteria consistently to establish
consistency in grading.
Establish the proficiency target of 3 out of 4.
Identify examples for each stage of the rubric
Share standards, rubric, and samples with students,
and teach them how to apply the rubric to their
writing.
Week 1 PLC
Establish and agree to team norms (needs to be
emailed to faculty heads after first meeting)
Revisit the purpose of PLC – What are the four
essential questions?
Decide on how notes for each meeting will be
taken
Begin thinking about SMART goals.
Week 2 PLC Decide on SMART goals
Email copy to faculty head