User:RocksAdair/sandbox

Class Information: This Ms.Adair’s 7th grade history class. Your formative assessments will be 30% of your grade (Quizzes, Warm-ups, in class work) and your Summative assessments will be 70% of your grade (Tests). Remain in your seat unless you have permission to get out of it. Be polite and don’t touch others. Raise your hand to talk, A room full of people blurting out Questions isn’t going to get anything done. Bring your supplies, if you don’t bring your stuff you can’t learn. Pay attention, your friend is not as important as your education. If you need tutoring you can go Tuesday and Wednesday after school. You can’t eat gum, but you can chew it, but make sure it is not a distraction. Don’t eat during class, You can eat at lunch. Be in your seat and ready BEFORE the bell. The teacher dismisses you not the bell. Don’t line up to leave or we melt your face. When you get sick you get a few days to turn your stuff in. Your first conflict will result in a warning, For your 2nd conflict we will have to call your mom for backup, the third gets you an office referral. You will Rarely get to go to the bathroom during class. Throw away your trash at the end of class. Put your phone in your backpack. You could get rewarded.

Informational sources in Mrs.Adair room: On the western most wall, we have the S.M.A.R.T. Board. On the southwest wall, we have a bookshelf with books like the dictionary, thesauruses, literature(grade 7) and other fun books. The South wall has the pbl protocols and what you do in each of them. We have a whiteboard on the east wall.

How To Resolve Conflict

To avoid conflict, in the first, you should take these everyday precautions. Always calm down before engaging the other person, most classroom conflicts are over trivial and meaningless matters, which in term waste valuable time. Cool off and then proceed to talking with your teammate, listening to their views, while still calmly voicing your opinions. By listening to and considering both sides to the argument, a conclusive agreement can more easily be made. If your teammate does not want to calm down, try to be the bigger person, step away to not only compose yourself, but to let your teammate simmer down. Once you both have a cool head try to solve the problem with a compromise do not let pride get in the way of the argument, if you are afraid to “lose”, it may seem like you already lost, you want to find the best solution to the problem, and your idea might not solve it. Some examples of conflict resolution shall be included in these scenarios. Half of your group wants to do a poster, the other a weebly, you soon start to argue, what do you do? A)Split up                                B)Step away and let them argue C)Give in 	                         D)Try to find a compromise Someone is not doing their work, you ask them to do it and they get mad, what do you do? A)walk away and let them not do their work   B) inquire them as to why they're not working. C) yell at them back.      D) immediately request workshop

answers(1.D,2.B) What are the PBL and ELM protocols…

Launch - Launch is the time when you get your new team, during this time you are supposed to read the challenge brief and the rubric. After you have done that you and your team-mates will need to create a team name, it can be anything you would like, and each pick a “Job”. During this protocol you must write your team contract, and establish team norms, then everyone needs to sign the team contract.

Plan - In this phase you plan for research and create. To plan you identify and break down the driving question, then you read all the project requirements and copy them over to your team contract. You will be asked to create a know and need to know list and to analyze the rubric. Once you have done all this have the communication manager put up a check mark on the chat tree.

Research and Work - Now it is time to begin the project, in this protocol you will receive a paper called the DIY menu, DIYs are are Activities to do to help you learn the material you need to know. In some projects there are optional DIYs where you choose from two different DIYs that cover the same material, and the rest of the DIYs are required. Once you are close to done with your DIYs you will take your research question that you created in the last protocol and find the answer(s) to it.

Create and Critique - This protocol is a time when you need to be creative, because now you have to choose a product. Each time you start on a new topic you will have to do a new product. Sometimes products are chosen by the teacher and that’s what everyone has to use, and other time You and your team will get to decide what you want you product to be. Once everyone's product are nearly complete you can ask your teacher and peers to give you a critique, when they give you a critique you will receive warm feedback and cool feedback.Warm feedback is what you did god and cold feedback are suggestions to make your product better.

Share - In the final protocol, share, you share your product (Suprise). This is when you get to show off all your hard work, but you also get to see what everyone else has done. After this phase you will get assigned a new team and you will start again at the launch protocol.