Professional Learning Team Cycle Planning Guide

Professional Learning Topic: Inquire based learning

Learning Team Members: Jake Winfield, Khaleb Straight,

Logan Allen, Forrest Radarian, Kathryn Hart
Goals:
Mid-Cycle Formative Benchmarks: Weekly Debriefs
1) We will identify and understand the most effective inquiry End of Cycle Summative Benchmarks:
based approaches per best method for each teacher's Comparison of student data
content field.
2) Implement inquiry based lessons and discuss data from
lessons
3) Reflect on teaching practice

Session 1 (January 29)

Session Goals
Bridge to Practice
Plan Professional
Research Inquiry
Development
based learning to
bring to next
weeks meeting
Evidence to Bring
to Next PL
Session:
Teacher: One
article or study to
summarize/share
with group.

Session 2 (February 5)
Session Goals
Bridge to Practice
Share research
Implement
and understand
successful
the inquiry model content model
and find out what into a lesson-is applied most
teach lesson.
successfully in
Evidence to Bring
our content
to Next PL
areas.
Session:
Teacher:
Write lesson
Lesson plan,
plans to
lesson reflection
implement in

Session 3 (February 16)

Session Goals
Bridge to Practice
Discuss and
Research inquiry
share lessons and based lessons
outcomes from
the previous
weeks practice
Evidence to Bring
Create/Find an
to Next PL
evaluative tool
Session:
Teacher: Lesson
Write lesson
plan and lesson
plans to
reflection
implement in

Student: Present
levels in form of
grade averages

classroom
practice.

Student:

next lesson cycle

Student:
Gather samples
of two students
work tbd (bring
something from a
student with an
IEP)

Session 6
Session Goals
Debrief on the
lessons weve
done and long
term data
analysis/comparis
on

(March 22)
Bridge to Practice
How can I make
this work long
term if it is a
successful?
Evidence to Bring
to Next PL
Session:
Teacher:

Identify student
data goals to
bring to later
sessions

Session 4 (February 19)

Session Goals
Bridge to Practice
Discuss research
Observe another
with a reflective
teachers lesson
lens having
taught an inquiry
based lesson.
Evidence to Bring
to Next PL
Continue to
Session:
implement
Teacher:
inquiry based
Bring observation
lessons in the
notes/ data about
classroom
the other teacher
focused on
Plan observations inquiry
between students
Student:

Session 5 (February 26)

Session Goals
Bridge to Practice
Debrief protocol
Implement two
regarding inquiry different kinds of
based lesson
inquiry based
observations
models
Plan/Write lesson
Evidence to Bring
based on
to Next PL
observation
Session:
notes?
Teacher:
Gather student
assessment/ data
Representation of
student data
(grades/ grade
averages)
Student:

Prepare a short
presentation:
successes and
challenges of
implementing
inquiry based
lessons

Student: