World+Cafe+Issues+(Kelly+and+Kirstey

World Cafe Notes What does effective instruction look like using the curriculum? 1.Using a wiki everyone share ideas, then we put them together-using research based strategies 2.interaction btw students and instructor 3.How to empower the students as much as possible? 4. Student to student interaction 5. Social media 6. giving kids access to the world 7 the competition is important - schools can compete against each other or inter-school teams compete against each other

Group 2 8.tie the curriculum to other disciplines- Sigerney (sp) School does a Renaissance Fair 9. Iowa Core 10. Able to explore their own passions and weaknesses 11. Better testing and more games- lots of online options w new textbooks

Group 3 12.teaching citizenship and social skills when communicating w others (teach them how to respond appropriately- online etiquette) 13. Accountability

Group 4 Issues w implementation 1. The more kids are doing, the less it looks like the teacher is doing since there is no lecture or notes. It takes so much organization when we front load. 2. Formative assessment 3.student centered- not what are we teaching, but what are they actually learning? 4.letting go of control

Group 2 5. How do we empower the community and the parents? 6. Adding rigor where students have assessments at their level and different numbers of assignments 7. We need students to buy into the program 8. We need time to plan and prepare. We're back herein July and start school mid August 9. Do we use this curriculum in all sections? 10.Routine 11.How can we help those students who move mid year so they don't miss important info

Group 3 12. Availability of computer labs 13. Bandwidth issues

Group 4 14. Do we have the same level of buy-in from all teachers? Continuum of involvement 15.schools rules need to be reexamined- their phones could be necessary and helpful 16. The ITED's don't access the Iowa Core 17.Process- how do we show their work online? Rough drafts for LA, work for math, etc 18. Linear-mastery of concepts before moving on 19. Do we need an IA copi discussion for collaboration? 20. What are going to do about kids who are absent w no computers at home? How do we catch them up w/o falling further behind.