Summary+of+Graduate+Profile+Discussion+on+Aug+30+2007

Hi all. Below is the summary of our Graduate Profile brainstorming. Please feel free to add to, edit, or start a discussion on this topic.

//CSIHSIS Staff// //August 30, 2007//
 * __Summary of ideas from brainstorming on Graduate Profile__**


 * How can your students use and understand the Graduate Profile in your class?**


 * Exit pass question – which area of the GP did we address and how do you know?
 * Highlight from the GP what they accomplished in class (post on the board with the Objective for the day)
 * Number the grad profile so it is easier to refer to the pieces (1.a, 1.b, etc)
 * Warm-up brainstorm what do you think we’ll be addressing in class.
 * Rubric of performance that includes key words and ideas from the GP
 * Use key words regularly in class, and list the actual element from the GP on assignments (right there at the top, or with the directions)
 * Use a specific assignment/project to help students understand where they stand as emerging graduates.
 * VICE – use the pneumonic to help remember the Habits of Mind and help students regularly use these habits to look at the GP.
 * Add GP to unit plans within the UbD
 * Add to lessons beneath Aim and obtain exit pass at end of lesson.


 * || **How can your students use and understand the Graduate Profile in your advisory?** ||
 * Portfolio project … work on it the entire year, collect artifacts along the way that are labeled with the GP elements (colored folders), tie the project into other activities
 * Constant reflection (journals (goal-setting), check-ins, keeping a log of which GP elements they’ve addressed)
 * For every assignment ask “where does this fit into the GP?”
 * Create visual representations of the elements of the GP
 * Academic voice – this language is it! Break it down … a lesson where the kids re-write the elements in their own voice
 * Use a word wall and have students use and define key words from the GP (maybe have one section of the GP each month), and/or have students post their comments when they have achieved a section of the GP
 * Text Rendering Protocol with the GP (or parts thereof)
 * Looks like/Sounds like activity with the sections of the GP (lesson already exists)
 * Refer to the GP at conferences
 * Make sure the advisory teaches the elements not taught in other classes (i.e. taking criticism) … have the kids help determine which areas are best addressed in advisory
 * Activity based on “which one don’t you understand?”
 * Post vocabulary from GP in classroom
 * Journal about points on GP in advisory
 * Journal about points on GP in advisory