Workshops-Spring 2008

• A Science & English Partnership: Building Common Ground for Collaboration in Dens

Session 1: English 1/ICS

In order to strengthen the potential to meaningfully infuse the environmental curriculum, teachers in the 9th grade who have common preps can be given a window into some options. With options, then they can decide to take it where they choose. There are many avenues to explore.

Goals for Workshop #1

• Show English faculty potential options for environmental curricular options within the regular English 1 units of study

• To familiarize Science faculty with these but to enable them to see where THEIR curriculum can also be meaningfully infused, facilitating the English/Science 9th grade partnerships

• All units presented have a PBL/portfolio element

Session 2: The International Odyssey Project

Goals for Workshop #2

• To familiarize elements of the Odyssey Project as an example of PBL/portfolio assessment

• Disciplines BEYOND science & English applicable

• Collaboration internationally in both subject areas w/ another classroom entailed/presented

Session 3: The Virtual Classroom

Goals for Workshop #3

• Utilizing the Ed1Stop feature for teachers to work together-example shown using my Germany partner school

• Building base research skills at the 9th grade • E-mail for documents, wiki construction, use of

bookmarks & file storages to build a more informed PV student

• Multiple resources/elements of utilizing the blog

Collaboration occurs in many ways…

• Across den discipline areas within a den• Across classrooms locally & abroad• Science & English partnership @ 9th grade can

meaningfully propel the environmental aim of PVHS