This document outlines the agenda and notes from a workshop focused on 21st century competencies. The agenda includes revisiting plans and sharing artifacts from teachers, exploring technology tools, and setting new goals. Teachers shared examples of how they incorporated critical thinking and collaboration in the classroom. Criteria for artifacts were discussed. Technology like Career Cruising, Office 365, LinkedIn, and online resources were explored. Teachers provided updates on projects like a career fair and discussed next steps for professional development.
2. Agenda:
1. Our Plan:
• Revisit our CD Action Plan for 21st Century Competencies
• Share and Reflect on our own sample Artifact that we were to prepare for the meeting. (Round Table)
• Critical Thinking Reflection regarding Artifact.
• 21 CC Artifact Criteria and Review Samples
2. Tech Time:
● Revisit Tech Tools and share online resources to support professional development
● Teachers explore/share online resources, tech tools, apps and how they connect to our plan. Time for
planning, collaborating, supporting our CD Action Plan.
3. Action Plans:
● Regroup and reflect on progress
● Set goal(s) to continue to meet/plan
4. Reflect onWorkshop/ Feedback Form for Day 3
5. CD PLT Meeting
3. Our Plan – 21 CC
What do I plan
to do?
By June 2014, our Career Development PLT Team will investigate processes and tools in support
of the creation of Career Development e-Portfolios while incorporating the competencies of
critical thinking and collaboration.
What have I
done?
Last school year, our Sun West Career Development PLT Team worked collaboratively to create
paper-based CD Portfolio Exemplars (3 in total) to be used by CD Teachers and students when
helping young people build their CD portfolios from Grades 10 through 12.
Where am I
now?
As a group, we have the exemplars and access to Career Cruising, and our new Office 365
suite as resources. We come to this year’s goal with various levels of knowledge, experience
and expertise with the Career Development program, CD portfolios, and with the concept if e-
portfolios.
Where do I
need to go?
As a group, we need to better map out our goal and determine our plan then figure out a way
to document, share, and reflect on findings while keeping in mind the need for us and our
students to create a publishable artifact.
How am I going
to get there?
As a team, we will work towards the common goal by focusing on one another’s strengths. All
team members will contribute to our overall goal. (Respect ideas, collaborate as a team,
employ effective research skills, engage in positive communication, utilize relevant tech tools,
engage in positive digital citizenship, embrace lifelong learning).
How will I know
I have arrived?
As a team, we will create a reflective showcase of our findings and suggestions for use with
students next school year. We have a target of having select students create a reflective post-
career fair eportfolio artifact involving critical thinking and collaboration.
4. Artifact
Share and Reflect
Task (as emailed out as meeting prep):
Choose an artifact that provides evidence of something you
have learned since the beginning of the school year.
Come prepared to share your reflection.
5. Artifact
Triangulation of Evidence
Let’s talk about listening to students talk (have conversations) about their product(s) can help them explain what they knew and/or
understood. How can these conversations lead to increased teacher knowledge about student learning?
“Gather evidence from multiple sources over time. When we triangulate our evidence and collect it over time, valuing both
qualitative and quantitative evidence of learning, we can be confident our findings are reliable and valid. We are then able to share
our findings, using evidence people value.” - Anne Davies, Beth Parrott Reynolds, and Sandra Herbst
Observations
Products/PerformancesConversations
6. Artifact
Share and Reflect
Buddy up with someone
Enter into a conversation about your artifact.
Consider these questions (take about 3 minutes/question):
1. Describe the artifact.
2. What does this artifact provide evidence of?
3. In what ways does the artifact provide evidence of how you teach or
lead?
4. In what ways does this artifact provide evidence of how you learn?
5. In what ways does your artifact connect to an idea that we have
talked about during our time together? (Today or this year…)
7. Artifact
Critical Thinking
Reflect on Questions
1. Describe the artifact.
2. What does this artifact provide evidence of?
3. In what ways does the artifact provide evidence of how you teach or
lead?
4. In what ways does this artifact provide evidence of how you learn?
5. In what ways does your artifact connect to an idea that we have
talked about during our time together? (Today or this year…)
What do you notice? Can you make connections to Bloom’s Taxonomy?
8. Artifact
Critical Thinking
In thinking about our CD work with students in the form of CD portfolios both
traditional and electronic, let’s talk about the types of questions we could ask our
student learners in order to have them think and talk about a piece of their work or
their learning process.
9. The 21 CC Artifact
• "Knowledge often comes to us via transcribed content or artifacts, which is derived from other's
knowledge. These are facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles (Clark & Chopeta,
2004). Thus, artifacts are used in the learning process for creating knowledge, while in turn,
knowledge creates new artifacts." – Don Clark
• Strengthening teaching practices and positively impacting student learning is a constant goal of
professional development. During the 2013-14 school year, 100% of Sun West teachers have
been given an additional two days to work with their Learning Coaches to enhance critical
thinking and collaboration skills in the classroom.
• As the culmination of the Sun West School Division's focus on the 21st Century Competencies,
educators across the Division are submitting an educational artifact as a way to collectively
showcase our achievements this year. The artifacts are intended to represent the many ways in
which teachers were able to take what they learned this year and apply it to their classrooms.
Students in every grade level, in every subject, have benefitted from the focus on critical thinking
and opportunities for increased collaboration.
10. The 21 CC Artifact
Please use the following criteria for submitting your own artifact this year:
• Provide a brief summary of action plan (e.g. goal).
• Summarize how you integrated critical thinking and collaboration.
• Identify curriculum outcomes connected to the plan.
• Identify subject area and grade levels connected to plan.
• Include student feedback (their reactions if possible)
• Attach lesson and/or unit plan, picture or video, link to blog, etc.
• Be sure to reference sources.
12. The 21 CC Artifact
Connection to Technology
Are there any tech tools that might support
the reflection process in relation to CD portfolios
and/or our 21 CC Artifact?
Think Critical Thinking and Collaboration!
13. Tech Time
Career Cruising:
1. Career Development Portfolios
Grade 10 through 12
2. Resource to support both Traditional and e-Portfolios
25. Reflection & Feedback
1. Share with the group where you are
at.
2. Technology Feedback
3. Complete the Day 3 Feedback Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EJFZG-
QhpDQttv81wWvDPeTPbIcQRaW4M7IA1Rmhh2Y/edit
26.
27. CD PLT Meeting
1. Career Fair
2. Wiki/Blog/Moodle
3. Matters of Business
4. Learning Together
5. Wrap up and Evaluation
28. Career Fair 2014
By June 2014, our Career Development PLT
Team will organize, implement, and evaluate
the fourth Sun West School Divisino ROADS
TO SUCCESS Career Fair offered to Grade 10
and 11 students.
Tuesday, May 6 (setup May 5) Rosetown, SK
31. Matters of Business
What is on your mind?
- CWEX
- Career Counselling
- Career Education
Let’s Talk!
32. Learning Together
Ted Talk:
How to find and do work you love!
(as shared by Blair)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpe-LKn-4gM
33. Wrap Up
Upcoming Meetings:
CD PLT BRIDGIT MEETING – re. Career Fair – Day 2 -
CD LEAD Teacher Meeting – April 2 - Kenaston
CD PLT Meeting - May 16
CD LEAD Teacher Meeting – June 3 – Rosetown
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