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Welcome! • Please sit in grade level groups. • Turn in your completed Plan-Do Review in the basket. • Pick up your Inventory of Strengths from the brown folder. • Complete R-Space registration; stack your table’s forms. Your Facilitators for Today • Denise Amos OVEC Content Specialist, English/LA • Carol Franks KDE Effectiveness Coach • Christy Rhodes JCPS ECE Literacy Resource teacher • Pam Scudder Gallatin Co. K-5 Literacy Coach • Mikkaka Hardaway • Jean Wolph KDE Literacy Consultant Louisville Writing Project Director 2012-13 Learning Goal I can use careful planning to improve instruction, in order to become an effective teacher and leader. Throughout the Day, please complete these: Evaluation • Gather evidence about what you are learning today. Plan/Do/Review Plan how you could share what you learned today in your school in your district Connect with your grade level colleagues • Celebrate your modules. • Share questions and ideas. Coming up…MARCH expectations • Develop and teach a module (your choice— narrative, informational, argument/opinion) • Bring copies of scored student work – 2 samples for each of the four performance levels – Remove students’ names and identifying information NOTE: A narrative template is available for us to pilot…stay tuned! What are PARCC and “Smarter Balanced”? Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Three Key Shifts in the ELA Standards 1. Complexity: Regular practice with complex text and its academic language. 2. Evidence: Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, literary and informational. 3. Knowledge: Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction. Research Simulation Task (Grade 7): Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance 9 Grade 7 Technology-Enhanced Constructed-Response Item Below are three claims that one could make based on the article “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.” Part A: Highlight the claim that is supported by the most relevant and sufficient facts within “Earhart’s Final Resting Place Believed Found.” Part B: Click on two facts within the article that best provide evidence to support the claim selected in Part A. 10 CCSS alignment to – RI.7.1 (use of evidence). – RI.7.8 (author’s claims and evidence). – RI.7.10 (complex texts). 11 Final Grade 7 Prose Constructed-Response Item #2 You have read three texts describing Amelia Earhart. All three include the claim that Earhart was a brave, courageous person. The three texts are: • “Biography of Amelia Earhart” • “Earhart's Final Resting Place Believed Found” • “Amelia Earhart’s Life and Disappearance” Consider the argument each author uses to demonstrate Earhart’s bravery. Write an essay that analyzes the strength of the arguments about Earhart’s bravery in at least two of the texts. Remember to use 12 textual evidence to support your ideas. CCSS alignment to – RI.7.1 (use of evidence); – RI.7.8 (evaluate claims in a text); – RI.7.9 (comparison of authors’ presentation); – RI.7.10 (complex texts). – W.7.2 (writing to inform and explain); – W.7.4 (writing coherently); – W.7.7 (conduct short research projects); – W.7.8 (gather relevant information from multiple sources); – W.7.9 (drawing evidence from texts). 13 – L.7.1-3 (grammar and conventions). Grade 7 Analytical Prose Constructed-Response Item #1 Based on the information in the text “Biography of Amelia Earhart,” write an essay that summarizes and explains the challenges Earhart faced throughout her life. Remember to use textual evidence to support your ideas. 14 CCSS alignment to: • • • • • • • 15 RI.7.1 (use of evidence); RI.7.2 (summary of text); RI.7.10 (complex texts). W.7.2 (writing to explain or inform); W.7.4 (writing coherently); W.7.9 (drawing evidence from texts). L.7.1-3 (grammar and conventions). Directions • • • • Read grade-level PARCC questions. Identify the standards being assessed. Notice the rigor of the questions. Discuss how this knowledge may be useful in your planning (of both PD and instruction). Take a break! Whole Group Reading • Divide articles at your table. • Read to find the big ideas about close reading or textdependent questions. • Synthesize and discuss as a group: What is the relationship between close reading and text-dependent questions? Progression of Text-dependent Questions Whole Across texts Opinions, Arguments, Inter-textual Connections Inferences Entire text Author’s Purpose Segments Vocab & Text Structure Paragraph Key Details Sentence Word General Understandings Part Break Out Sessions • Text Complexity – Gym, Pam • Text-Dependent Questions – Room 227 , MK • Close Reading – Stay here, Denise LUNCH! Enjoy! Mark your calendars— our next meeting date is MARCH 26 at East Oldham MS To be announced 21 Before we meet in March • Bring an artifact that represents what you have learned through the ELA Network • Finalize one more LDC Module o Teach it o Score student work o Bring module, ladder and student work from all levels • Try new reading and writing strategies • Share what you learned today with your district colleagues. • Optional: Invite Denise to visit your classroom 22 Review Assessment Questions: Do my assessments prepare my students for state and national tests? • Notice the rigor and value of the questions. • How might they be improved, based on our new learning today? Do you have ideas for any “missing” standards? • If you make changes, please give us a copy! Kentucky Framework for Teaching Teacher Professional Growth and Effectiveness System (TPGES) Domain 3: Instruction Domain 3 Instruction 3c Engaging Students in Learning Domain 3: Instruction Component 3c – Engaging Students in Learning Domain 3: Instruction 3C - Engaging Students in Learning Activities and Assignments Grouping of Students Instructional Materials and Resources Structure and Pacing Student engagement in learning is the centerpiece of the framework for teaching; all other components contribute to it. When students are engaged in learning, they are not merely “busy,” nor are they “on task.” The critical distinction between a classroom in which students are compliant and busy and one in which they are engaged is that the latter students are developing their understanding through what they do. That is, they are engaged in discussing, debating, answering “what if?” questions, discovering patterns, and the like. They may be selecting their work from a range of (teacher-arranged) choices and making important contributions to the intellectual life of the class. Such activities don’t typically consume the entire lesson, but they are essential components of engagement. A lesson in which students are engaged usually has a discernible structure: a beginning, a middle, and an end, with scaffolding provided by the teacher or by the activities themselves. The teacher organizes student tasks to provide cognitive challenge and then encourages students to reflect on what they have done and what they have learned. This is, the lesson has closure, in which students derive the important learning from their own actions. A critical question for an observer in determining the degree of student engagement is “What are the students being asked to do?” If the answer to that question is that they are filling in blanks on a worksheet or performing a rote procedure, they are unlikely to be cognitively engaged. In observing a lesson it is essential no only to watch the teacher but also pay close attention to the students and what they are doing. The best evidence for student engagement is what students are saying and doing as a consequence of what the teacher does, or has done, or has planned. Ineffective Developing Accomplished Exemplary Critical Attributes Critical Attributes (cont.) The learning tasks and activities, materials, resources, instructional groups and technology are poorly aligned with the instructional outcomes or require only rote responses. The pace of the lesson is too slow or too rushed. Few students are intellectually engaged or interested. Few students are intellectually engaged in the lesson. Learning tasks require only recall or have a single correct response or method. The materials used ask students to perform only rote tasks. Only one type of instructional group is used (whole group, small groups) when variety would better serve the instructional purpose. Instructional materials used are unsuitable to the lesson and/or students. The lesson drags or is rushed. The learning tasks and activities are partially aligned with the instructional outcomes but require only minimal thinking by students, allowing most to be passive or merely compliant. The pacing of the lesson may not provide students the time needed to be intellectually engaged. The learning tasks and activities are aligned with instructional outcomes and designed to challenge student thinking, the result being that most students display active intellectual engagement with important and challenging content and are supported in that engagement by teacher scaffolding. The pacing of the lesson is appropriate, providing most students the time needed to be intellectually engaged. Some students are intellectually engaged in Most students are intellectually engaged in the lesson. the lesson. Learning tasks are a mix of those requiring Learning tasks have multiple correct thinking and recall. responses or approaches and/or demand higher-order thinking. Students are in large part passively engaged with the content, learning primarily facts or Students have some choice in how they procedures. complete learning tasks. Students have no choice in how they There is a mix of different types of complete tasks. groupings, suitable to the lesson objectives. The teacher uses different instructional Materials and resources support the Domain groupings; these are partially successful in 3: Instruction learning goals and require intellectual achieving the lesson objectives. engagement, as appropriate. The materials and resources are partially The pacing of the lesson provides students aligned to the lesson objectives and only in the time needed to be intellectually Virtually all students are intellectually engaged in challenging content through well-designed learning tasks and suitable scaffolding by the teacher and fully aligned with the instructional outcomes. In addition, there is evidence of some student initiation of inquiry and of student contribution to the exploration of important content. The pacing of the lesson provides students the time needed to intellectually engage with and reflect upon their learning and to consolidate their understanding. Students may have some choice in how they complete tasks and may serve as resources for one another. In addition to the characteristics of “accomplished”: Virtually all students are highly engaged in the lesson. Students take initiative to modify a learning task to make it more meaningful or relevant to their needs. Students suggest modifications to the grouping patterns used. Students have extensive choice in how they complete tasks. Students suggest modifications or additions to materials being used. Students have the opportunity for both Read the introduction and Accomplished & Exemplary performance levels for 3c Annotate the text, looking for ways you might enhance student engagement in your modules. One LDC Example The British Industrial Revolution Created through collaboration by Sara Ballute, Candace Hurley, Timothy Lent http://www.literacydesigncollaborative.org/about/videos/ The teaching task in the video Task 2: Were the achievements and growth of the Industrial Revolution Era worth the cost to society? After reading secondary and primary sources pertaining to the British Industrial Revolution, write an argumentation essay that addresses the question and support your position with evidence from the texts. L2 Be sure to acknowledge competing views. Turn and Talk • How does quality implementation of LDC help teachers meet exemplary level of engagement? • What can you add to your modules that will move you more into the exemplary level? As you enter a classroom ask yourself this question: "If there were no students in the room, could I do what I am planning to do?" If your answer to the question is yes, don't do it. Gen. Ruben Cubero, Dean of The Faculty, United States Air Force Academy Take another break…. and move to meet with your district team. Narrative and Read Like A Writer 33 2012-13 Learning Goal I can use careful planning to improve instruction, in order to become an effective teacher and leader. District Planning Time Create a visual representation that answers, how could today’s Network materials help our district’s teachers become more effective teachers? Complete • Evaluation • Plan/Do/Review Putting it All Together Create a visual representation that answers the question, “How might today’s Network materials help our district’s teachers become more effective teachers?” * Concept Map * 4 Way Tie * ??? * Web * Metaphorical Graphic * Other ideas???? You can – use the underlined words on the agenda – any of graphic organizers and reminder sheets on your table. Be ready to share during the District Shout Outs With your district , please complete these: Evaluation • What evidence will you provide? Plan/Do/Review Plan how you could share what you learned today in your school in your district District District Shout Outs Shout Outs Reminders Next Meeting, March 26 at East Oldham Middle School, 8:30-3:30 • Finalize one more LDC Module o o o Teach it between now and March 26 Score student work Bring module, ladder and student work from all levels • Bring an artifact that represents what you have learned through the ELA Network • Try new reading and writing strategies • Share what you learned today with your district colleagues. Optional: Invite Denise to visit your classroom – Door Prizes!