• What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
• How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

1. Creating a Collaboration Group
2. Guidelines for Handling Disagreements in Collaboration Groups
3. Managing Disagreements – A Collaboration Group Assignment
4. Measure and Reward Your Collaboration Group’s Effectiveness

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

Meet with the other participants from your site for approximately one hour each week. The purpose of these meetings is to share your journal reflections and further discuss your learning, observations, questions, and personal connections. In addition, this will be a time to complete group items as assigned in the lesson directions.

1. The first thing to do at your meeting is to decide who are that week’s facilitator, recorder, and timekeeper. Each week, the roles rotate to a new participant. The role descriptions are described in detail in Creating a Collaboration Group.
2. After roles have been determined, share comments from your reflection journals.
3. Determine assignment and Collaboration Group meeting dates for Module 1.
   
   • Lesson 1.1: Collaboration Group
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
   • Lesson 1.2: Personal Literacy Narrative and Philosophy Statement
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
     Personal Literacy Narrative and Philosophy Statement due _____
   • Lesson 1.3: Cultural Considerations
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
     Note-Taking Guide due _____
   • Lesson 1.4: Key Elements in Reading: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
   • Lesson 1.5: Risk Factors of Future Reading Difficulties and Circumstances That Promote Success for Beginning Readers
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
   • Lesson 1.6: Evaluation and Literacy Talk
     Collaboration Group meeting date _____
     Module 1 evaluation due _____
     
4. Develop ground rules for the Collaboration Group and complete the following forms.
   • Guidelines for Handling Disagreements in Collaboration Groups
   • Managing Disagreements – A Collaboration Group Assignment
   • Measure and Reward Your Collaboration Group’s Effectiveness
5. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. The recorder places copies of all the work done by the Collaboration Group in the Collaboration Group Notebook for future reference.
2. The recorder emails due dates and the following documents to the instructor. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_guidelines_disagree.
   • Guidelines for Handling Disagreements in Collaboration Groups
   • Managing Disagreements – A Collaboration Group Assignment
   • Measure and Reward Your Collaboration Group’s Effectiveness
3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.