August 29th 8:00 AM District meeting at Miller Auditorium; Teachers report back to buildings by 10:30 AM Principal’s Meeting; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch; PM work in rooms 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM
I assume interns will follow the same schedule as teachers but, be sure and contact your mentor
to confirm the information provided above.
September 1st - Prairie Ridge interns meet in the Media Center at 1:15 and Winchell Interns meet in the library at 3:00. These meetings will be short, thirty minutes to fourty-five minutes. We'll discuss seminar projects, schedule, grading, journals and Terry's award.
September 8th and 13th Beginning iWebfolio sessions, September 8th and 13th, 1206 Sangren Hall, 4:00-5:00 . Advanced sessions September 12th and 22nd. Please reserve a spot: wmu-eportfolio@wmich.edu
September 8th 7:30 - Prairie Ridge Interns and Winchell Interns meet in the Prairie Ridge Media Center (second floor) Click here for the agenda!
September 22nd- 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns at Winchell. Julie Wayman, Special Ed. Teacher at Winchell, will lead a session on inclusion. Click here for our agenda
September 28th - iWebfolio cover page due today. Please have your name, photo and short philosophy statement posted so I can review it this evening. Be sure and go to the permissions tab and list me as one who can access your site.
September 29th 7:30 a.m. Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet at Prairie Ridge- We'll focus on classroom and student management issues. Click here for our agenda.
October 6th - 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet at Winchell - Anticipatory sets - motivating students and a brief discussion of the evaluation forms. Click here for today's agenda
October 12th (Wednesday) Career Development session by Deveta Gardner. 3 p.m. at WMU's Fetzer Center
October 13th - Self-Reflective Evaluations are Due to mentor Teachers
October 20th - 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet in the Prairie Ridge Media Center. Mentor and self-reflective evaluations due today. We'll also talk about the "Impact on Student Learning" assignment, view part of a Harry Wong DVD and meet in small groups Click here for the Impact on Student Learning Form
October 24th - Second Eight week session - Art Interns Report to their secondary Placements. Sixteen week interns can now sub!
October 25th - 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet at Indian Prairie Elementary Marti Bielby will lead a discussion that will focus on classroom management. She'll also talk about how she creates interesting lessons from scripted text. Please park on the west side, near the golf course. Self-Reflective and mentor evaluations are due this morning. Please make sure all copies are signed.
November 3rd- 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet in the Prairie Ridge media center Lisa Hansen will talk about Daily5 (Lisa's room is third from the end, right side, first floor. - Click here for today's agenda and assignments.
November 10th- 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet in the Winchell Library Pam Ide and Juliann Caldwell will help lead a discussion about running effective work stations (centers). Following presentations, we'll discuss the impact on student learning projects and iWebfolios. Please print out a copy of the impact on student learning form and bring it to seminar. The form can be found on http://www.wmich.edu/education/internship/intern.htm
November 16th - Please have at least two standards completed for your iWebfolio project today
November 17th - 7:30 a.m. Teacher Certification session with Cindy DeRyke at Prairie Ridge Elementary
November 24th - Thanksgiving Break-No seminar
December 1st - 7:30 Winchell and Prairie Ridge Interns meet in the Winchell Library Randy Rodchester will talk about student led conferences, click here for today's agenda.
December 7th - 8 a.m. Orientation at Winchell and Prairie Ridge
December 12th - All projects due today ... Impact on Student Learning, iWebfolio, Idea Box, Video Critique, Teacher survey, resume, Final self-reflective and mentor evaluations. I'll visit Prairie Ridge in the morning and Winchell during the afternoon to collect projects that have not been turned in previous to today.
December 12th (Monday) - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast celebration at Rykse's on Stadium Dr.
December 15th - Final Day
December 17th - Commencement
