West High Algebra PLC Meeting

Waterloo West High School 2017-2018

Meeting Agenda:

Attendance: Hawkins, Tack, Kruchek, Duniven, Reinhart, Fisher, Netty

The Four Essential Questions NOTES
1. What do we want our students to learn? (Goals/Expectations) 1. Review M: CFA
a. Solve systems of equations using elimination. T: Review
b. Recall and apply learning from the Semester.
W:Finals
2. How will we know they are learning? (Assessment) 2. Results
a. Quiz over elimination R: Finals
b. CFA over systems
c. Semester Final 3. Referred
d. Results from assessment discussed by each teacher
a. Algebra CFA Data 2017-18
3. How will we respond when they do not learn? (Seminar)
a. Reteaching will take place during Seminar, Math Lab, after 4. Ideas
school, and/or during class.
b. List student outcomes after referral here
4. How will we respond if they already know it? (Extensions)
a. Continue the progression of difficulty (i.e. multiplying both
equations).
b. Solving a system using other methods (sub/elim/graph).
c. Word problems
Lesson Plans NOTES
Lesson Plan Share Out
a. Goals/Expectations - Identify
b. Strategies used to teach these targets - Share/Discuss
c. Assessment components (formative/summative)
d. Any Literacy components
 e. Re-teaching
PLC Instructional Focus NOTES
PLC Focus for this Group - ​Choose one and highlight on doc (this should
be uniform across the team)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13jfHSF1gBByg00XxEXfPitqfQrXDxRJ
FQJCiCYwDclM/edit
1. Enable students to construct their own knowledge
2. Disruptions of classroom time are minimized
3. Teacher assumes all students in the classroom are capable of
taking charge of their own learning
4. Teacher emphasizes the development of deep knowledge of
the core concepts
5. A rapid pace of instruction in the classroom is maintained