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Monday, November 4
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B5 (8:30 - 9:45 AM)
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DeveauxCL French 4Founders8Topic will be science and technologie, pedagogy: metacognition (they will receive some of their work back); and will l be working collaboratively. Always want to make sure that I am creating an effective learning environment; students willing to collaborate, share ideas, etc.Colgate
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Chipman030 EnglishChaffee 122Topic: the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, focusing on their rhetoric (I will email these to anyone attending so that you can follow along if you so choose!); Pedagogy: retrieval practice, HarknessAllowing for an effective learning environment via comfort in the classroom- interactions with students that are personal and allowing/providing opportunities for recognizing relevance between themselves and their work Corman
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LesterPrecalculusClark 125Topic: polynomial graphs; Pedagogy: Card sort, pattern seekingChecking for individual understanding in the context of collaborative learning, intervening for students who are having trouble
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HeckmanBiologyClark 228Topic: photosynthesis review and lab simulation, concept mapping; pedagogy: POGIL, concept mapping, data analysisEnsuring students are engaged and recognizing connections between our material- this class is so quiet! Equity and Inclusion, as well. Corman
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MatlackCL Calculus ABClark 114Topic: Derivatives of Inverse Trig Functions; Related RatesHow much are my students doing the work? Quality of questions (higher order questioning)
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Eggers/LawrenceGraphic NovelChaffee 102Gallery Walk and writing on each others Graphic short storiesCorman
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MacClinticIntro to Problem SolvingPHIShareout of student presentation for their first client...feedback on their prototype
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ChaudharyBio AClark 115Topic: writing about science to a lay audience. Method: simultaneous real time feedbackThis technique is remote. Is there still a personal connection being made and sustained?
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BlickmanSpanish IFounders 6Vocabulary review, introduction to new structure, lab conversation, introduction to new grammar
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B6 (10:45 - 12:00 Noon)
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NisselsonFrench IVFounders 19Discussion of excerpts from Philippe Labro's The Foreign Student; Introduction to project; Trivia on French culture if we have time [Pedagogy: Blank page review; PPT; full-class discussion; partner work]
Student engagement and use of target language
Andrew Matlack
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HeckmanEcologyClark 231/Brush 1Topic: Climate Change and at 11:25, we're going to learn about their final project on reading and interpreting primary literatureScaffolding of final project and how to do an overview of an important topic with political implications delicately and not oversimplifying to the point of minimizingCourtney Doyle
Sara Deveaux
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AndersonLatin IIFounders 11Drilling on passive verbs, oral questions for story review. Students will be working on group projects on Roman games and entertainent during the final third of the period, which might or might not be less interesting for visitors.Andrew Matlack
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Aweida-ParsonsMiddle EastBrush 313Return Tests. Discussion around the Lebanese Civil War and the Palestinian Intifada and how to best understand different perspectives to the conflictMorgan
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EggersVoices of DissentChaffee 102New readings: selections from MLK and Malcolm XDeNunzio
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GeraceGuided Research Project in Molecular BiologyClark 115In this class, students engage in authentic research. In the fall term, the students are learning skills and defining their research projects. Today, students will be finishing an experiment to look at gene expression in stem cells.
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Marc CardwellSpanish 2AFounders 21Please visit between 10:45-11:25. We'll take a quick formative assessment (bellringer) and correct as class. Then a Gallery Walk to present family trees. We will be in language lab for second half. Have I helped to foster an environment where my students use the target language? Do I come across as supportive and encouraging to every student? Andrew Matlack
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WilliamsWorld History Brush 306Chapter Test Review; first half will consist of clarification and review, then students will develop trivia questions in groups; last forty minutes of student trivia. Student engagement; how well do students work in teams.
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B7 (12:10 - 1:25 PM or 12:40 - 1:55 PM)
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GrinspanCreative WritingChaffee 101late (12:40)Impromptu writing exercisesSara Deveaux
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Aweida-ParsonsWorld HistoryBrush 308early Test preparation. Key terms, key people, key themes
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B1 (2:05 - 3:20 PM)
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MorganEnglish IRAC 3TBD, but we'll be talking about Frederick Douglass' Narrative and some grammar.Maintaining student engagement and cultivating a comfortable learning environment.Rachel N. Delphine
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ColgateStories of WarHubbard 128In-class reading and discussion of Sebastian Junger's WarRachel N, Martha Ince, Delphine
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CormanSpanish IIIFounders 6song to review grammar; low stake formative assessment (bell ringer); research in class on various campaigns on the internet + presentationskeeping students in the target language during group workHeckman
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MillsEnglish 010Chaffee 122
PLEASE ARRIVE AT 2:30 so as not to disrupt student presentations.The Narrative of Frederick Douglass. Grammar.
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Managing student voices - especially those who tend to dominate.
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GeraceCL-GeneticsClark 115This class uses a flipped-class room model. Students will come to class having watched a video on patterns of inheritance. They will then be engaged in problem-solving on genetic pedigrees during class time.Group work and movement, am I reaching everyone? Are the kids arranged (seating wise) to work collaboratively?Lauren W, Will
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LesterAdvanced Physics Clark 129Topic: Circular Motion. Exploration activity, Lecture, Video LabRubai
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AndersonCL LatinFounders 11Language work on and discussion of Caesar's ethnographic chapters on the culture of the Gauls, including human sacrifice Rubai
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JohnsonIntro to Computer SciencePHIStudents will work on a "quick pitch" to design an app/service in the abstract, making sure to detail the ways in which it uses personal data in order to function while also being sure to detail ways to keep that data secure (via encryption). Framing/giving directions.

How I'm supporting helping students identify the problem they're hoping to solve.
Sara Deveaux, Heckman, Garvin
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FlemingLatin IFounders 12Focus on movement, chunking of activities. Variety of topics: Intransitive Verbs, Passive, "To be" and "Can" in Latin. Caesar's ethnography of the Gauls.
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Marc CardwellSpanish 2AFounders 21Please visit between 2:05-2:45. We'll take a quick formative assessment (bellringer) and correct as class. Then a Gallery Walk to present family trees. We will be in language lab for second half. This is a very small and very quiet class. Have I helped to foster an environment where my students use the target language? Do I come across as supportive and encouraging to every student?
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Mark ZuninoPrintmakingRAC 6Starting at 2:30 there will be an introduction to color printing on the Vandercook presslooking for clarity in explanation...for the laymanSara, Will