Team+11

Team 11
Member Names: Lucy Lu Jennifer Yuan Fred

Wednesday
Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy With your Partner reflect on the following questions: What content areas do you teach? English of level one What content strengths do you have? oral (fred) grammar(lucy) What content do you find difficult to teach? english writing What do you consider your role to be as a teacher? lamp of mind What instructional methods do you use as a teacher? lead in What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction? so many passive learners With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap. academic teaching

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Thursday
Guiding Questions I. What is the compelling question you would like your students to answer? Do you have any sub-questions to engage students? II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product?

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PBI Compelling Question:
If you are given a free unlimited ticket to any country where English is used, where would you go and why? (Do not worry about cost of living for the vacation)

Content:
1. Teachers must find online or create an example project which will hopefully jump-start the. 2. Some interesting aspects of different countries, and help students with vocabulary, grammar, presentation skills etc. 3. Coach them on appropriate means of research for their project. How to efficiently present information. 4. The end product will be a mock travel fare where students are able to show off what they learned about the countries they researched. 5. Teacher lets students know which tools are available to them and how to use technology involved.

Learning Outcomes for this PBI:
1.Students will become "experts" about a foreign country of their own choosing. 2. Students will gain perspective on the world by looking at places outside of familiar environment. 3. Students will learn real life skills like travel planning and hopefully become motivated in learning more about our world.

Method:
Research the internet and other available data bases Take a virtual tour online. Students make a plan for future travels Students may use the Duffel travel planning tool to design their own actual travel plans and electronically collaborate with classmates. Use field trip to a cultural museum for students to get a first hand look at things from foreign countries. Students may communicate with Skype peers in the countries that they are researching

Assessment:
Teacher will use rubric to evaluate the various products that students create. Students will evaluate each other using a rubric that the class will create together. peer assessment.

Technology Tools Used:
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