Jan. 30th 2013

Today in our PLC we continued to try and research new units in which we can integrate math into social studies. We were able to find two new websites that we think will help us in the few units coming up in social studies.

December 19, 2012,

Today in our PLC we discussed the events of last week.  Ms. Libal, Mr. Kreiling, and myself thoroughly enjoyed the presentations we observed.  It was very special to see everyone come together to put on such an event.  I especially was intrigued by Ms. Lowe's presentation and the many technological applications that she employs in the classroom.  I have spoke with Ms. Lowe and plan to pick her brain some more in order to gain enough understanding of the technology to feel comfortable using it in my classroom.  We did, however, think that our presentation came off very well.  We were and are proud of the work that we have done and will continue to do in the future.
  

Showcase Supplies???

I do not see a request for any supplies for your Showcase presentation.  If something comes up, be sure to see Mr. Black by November 30th.

ESL Group October 31st

Today I had the pleasure of visiting another PLC group in order to learn more about what other groups are doing. I visited the group of Mrs. Ault, Mrs. Caminos, and Mrs. Ripley. We discussed the process of getting students to talk more in class through whole class discussions and small group discussions. We were able to brainstorm some ideas about how to get students to be more comfortable in class where they feel that they may talk more in class. Overall this was a very productive day and there were many great ideas brought up.

Thanks,
Jeff Kreiling

PLC Showcase

At the end of our semester of work, all PLCs will be showcasing their work at the Wyandotte High School PLC Showcase on Wednesday, December 12th in the Social Hall.  The showcase will be a public demonstration of our learning, collaboration, and results.  Each PLC will showcase work that reflects how your learning and collaboration has impacted student learning.  Each PLC is encouraged to be creative and innovative in their demonstration (student examples would be highly encouraged); however, please be sure the following are addressed through your presentation -
    PLC Focus

Collaborative Actions   

Summary of PLC Learning

Impact on Student Learning

Connections to Future Teaching and Learning

In addition, all staff will have an opportunity to visit each demonstration during the Showcase.  Many outside guests will also be in attendance.  

If your PLC requires any kind of additional resources, please submit any requests for those materials via the comment section to this blog entry by NOVEMBER 9th. You will receive these materials by or before your November 28th meeting, so you will have AT LEAST two weeks to work on organizing your demonstration.

October 24th, 2012

Over the past week I was able to take a group of seniors to the World War I Memorial in Kansas City, MO. This ended up being a excellent opportunity for me to incorporate math and Social Studies together. I was able to do so when we were in the part of the museum where the students can view the numbers of those who died during World War I. I had several students look up what the populations of the countries that were involved with World War I were while the war was going on. Once we had determined what the total populations were, I had them then see how these numbers compared to the numbers of people who were killed from select countries during World War I. I think that not only was this a good way to incorporate math and social studies, but it was also a very big eye-opener for students. It seemed as if this was probably one of the first times where the students truly saw the percentage of people who died during World War I. I was able to show the students that in some cases, whole towns basically lost nearly all the men and young men during the war. When we took a look at the level of wounded people it was even more astounding than was the percentage of those who died. Overall I think that this was a successful fieldtrip and I was very happy to get such a good chance to incorporate both math and social studies into the students school day.

Thank You,
Jeff Kreiling

October 17th, 2010

Today Mr. Kreiling and myself continued to work on integrating math into the Social Studies curriculum.  I have a World War I unit coming up in this next few weeks and we are thinking this is an excellent opportunity to incorporate some math into the classroom.