Meeting 12 - Nov '12

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Science Department Meeting
Thursday, November 29, 2012
H103 – BioHazard Meeting Room
07:15 – 08:00

  1. Looking Ahead – Important Dates to Note
    1. Thursday-Saturday, December 6-8 – NSTA Phoenix
    2. Friday, December 7 – Happy Birthday Craig
    3. Sunday, December 9 – Open House
    4. Wednesday, December 19 – Senior Science Finals
    5. Friday, December 21 – Christmas Vacation Begins

  1. Dr. Wesson Reflection
    1. Auto-Ponder
i. Share one thing that you learned, and how you’ve put into practice

  1. Science Department Handbook
    1. Full Update is Complete
    2. Bring your Handbook to the next Department Meeting

  1. Formal Observations
    1. Thank You!
    2. Signed Observation Reports
    3. Post-Observation Meetings (December 13 – Schedule #2)
i. Signup for a 15 minute meeting before school, lunch or after school

  1. Open House
    1. Presenters – Craig, Mike, Brian, Gerry
i. Meet Tuesday (12/04) 7:30am to preview & discuss presentation
  1. Exploratorium – Karalyn, Fawzia, Andrew
i. What help is needed? What should we drop off to room H100?
  1. Xavier – Paul & Gary
i. Textbooks to BioHaz
ii. What else?
  1. Roaming – Robb
i. Will give people breaks
ii. Ask people to switch locations
  1. We need to RECRUIT Open House workers (at least 10)
i. Have all volunteers meet in room H100 at 12:30pm

  1. Department Budgets
    1. New Budget Form
    2. Use Current Budget to fit the Form
    3. Due Friday, December 14

90-Minute Final Exams for Seniors & Underclassmen


MEETING MINUTES

II. Dr. Wesson Reflection:

  • Robb-incorporating asking the questions differently to get to the answer
  • Gerry- Autoponder comment
  • Fawzia- drawing and diagramming important take away- incorporating more of that in the class
  • Karalyn- standing up increases 15% of your capacity, writing is understanding learning.
  • Mike- Letting the content sit in for a while, begin one thing, then starting in another thing. Active students, active learning
  • Gary-Sharing, when they are going through equations and solutions...
  • Craig- Neuroscience bringing cognitive learning and the sciences together. 22 minute lecture max.
  • Paul- 22 minute thing, getting students involved, articulate
  • Andrey- Never say no, forced autoponder silence
  • Andrew- timing, pacing, sense of humor, interactivity
  • Lee- emotions will spark attention, and that drives learning, vested in the situation.
  • Gina-everyone's engaged, tactile- touch, in fetal development 50% of cells go to your brain, 50% go to your skin.

III. Science Dept. Handbook

  • Full Update- is Complete- we need to have it complete by Dec. 1st- one copy to WASC
  • Bringing to next meeting

IV. Formal Observations
  • Post observation meeting- sign up at Biohaz, meet on Dec. 13 (10-15 min. sit down during the day)

V. Open House
  • Duties assigned-
  • Presenters- we need to revisit the presentation and decide whether or not to stick with the current or change, meet this Tuesday at 7:30am
  • Student presenters needed-Juniors and Seniors preferred.
  • Textbooks- we need copies of our text
  • Pix needed- slideshow, artifacts for display
  • Recruiting for volunteers, e.c. is OK

VI. Dept. Budgets

  • Each person in subgroups responsible for budget, subgroups
  • Tech Dept. - software requests, hardware requests also to tech dept.
  • P.D. line item- estimate specific costs for conferences, etc.
  • Due in December

VII. 90 Minute Final Exams for Seniors and Underclassmen

It is a done deal...