Information Specialist: Professional Learning Community- Wiki (1H 30M)

I forgot to mention that I set up a wiki for the science teachers at my primary site. Once a week, usually Monday, all science teachers are expected to meet and discuss student performance, lesson plans, lesson ideas, etc. These meetings are called data team meetings. At these meetings we are required to log how we are working to increase student achievement. Often these meetings are unproductive because not everyone shows up due to scheduling conflicts or sometimes not everyone brings ideas/materials to the table. To help facilitate the exchange of resources and keep an accurate and fair record of data, our last meeting was spent on learning how to use the wiki that I established. Each person is expected to go on to the website once a week and discuss how specific instructional strategies impacted their students that week. Teachers are required to post that lesson activity or resource in the appropriate unit folder for others to be able to use. I think the wiki was well received. The teachers appreciated not having a specific meeting time in which they had to arrange to be somewhere. This way they can work at their pace and time, and everyone is held a little more accountable now. I spent about 1 and 1/2 hours on this activity.