Transcript Impact on Teacher practices

6-12 Focus
Strategic Instruction
Model
developed by Kansas University
Alameda Unified School District
Board Meeting
June 10, 2008
Strategic Instruction Model
District-wide implementation
in 07-08
90+ teachers participated in
formal training
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Content Enhancement
FUSION Reading
Strategic Tutoring
Encinal Presentation
Jets: SIM taking off
Teacher and Student Survey
results about Strategic Instruction
Model implementation at EHS
ACRONYMS we love to use
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SIM – Strategic Instructional
Model (the overall system of
instruction)
CER – Content Enhancement
Routine (the specific routines
that we use in the classroom)
PDer – Professional Developer
The SIM story at Encinal
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Our story began in summer 2006
We felt there was a need for instruction
improvement
Willing and interested faculty members
trained in SIM
We began working to become PDers to
sustain the program and share our vision
Through this survey, we wanted to answer
2 questions:
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How are SIM/CER’s impacting students?
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What is the SIM/CER’s impact on teaching?
Teacher Survey Results:
Which CERs we used most
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2
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Course Organizer
Unit Organizer
FRAME
Concept Mastery
LINCS
Question Exploration
ORDER
TOWER
How teachers chose Content
Enhancement Routines
(CERs)
6
Helps teacher organize
him/herself
5
What is appropriate for
content
4
Helps with writing essays
3
Helps students organize
ideas
2
What devices teachers are
familiar with, feel are easy
to use
To help teach what has
been difficult in the past
for students to learn
To teach reading skills
1
0
Teachers’ perspective on the impact on Student
Learning at EHS
Helps student focus on critical concepts
6
Higher grades, better essays
5
4
Increases comprehension
Helps student thinking be more
organized
Helps students with deeper thought and
content
Helps students write essays
3
Not noticeable, not reflected in
assessments
Helps students focus thoughts
2
Students ask for CERs for other
classes
Course Org helps students understand
what they are doing
Allows students an active hand in their
learning
Helps with student review of key
concepts
Decreases transition time
1
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Impact on Teacher practices
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5
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3
2
Teacher is better
organized
More efficient and
effective
Focus planning on key
concepts/vocabulary
Explicit teaching
(letting students know
what they need to
learn)
Helps give students
the big picture
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0
Gave a tool to teach
reading strategy
Focused on
Impact on Teachers
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Aids teacher planning and
organization of critical
content
Fosters collegiality and
professional discussion as
well as consistency of
curriculum
Makes difficult cognitive
tasks easier to teach and
leads to deeper discussions.
CERs allow teacher to reflect
on cognitive challenges and
chose the best strategies to
help students master that
difficult content.
Student’s reported use of CER
in other classes
Students Reported Use of CER in Other CLasses
Use in Other Classes
80
70
60
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40
30
20
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1
English/Language Arts
Social Studies
Science
Math
AP European History
AP Environmental Science
AP/Honors English
French
Current Life
AVID
Philosophies
Spanish
AP US History
None
Where students would like to
see CERs used
Specific Classes Students' Idenitied Where CERs
Would Aid Their Learning
English/Language Arts
Social Studies
AP European History
Science
Number of Responses
25
Chemistry
AP Biology
20
Biology
Physiology
15
Physics
Math
10
Statistics
5
Entrepaunership
AVID
0
Spanish
1
Current Life
Where Students see
themselves using CERs in the
future
Number of Responses
Other Areas Students' Say CERs Would
Aid Their Learning
Writing Essays
35
College
30
Study Skills
25
Aid With Organization
20
15
Life, Work Place
Abstract Thinking
10
Recognize Themes
5
Other Classes
0
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Debate
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Student Voices
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Where else can
you use these
tools to help you
learn?
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complex idea from Math, Science, History to
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Students’ responses to how
CERs aided their learning
Understanding
Students' Response to how CER
Aided Their Learning
Organization
Focus on Critical Information
Number of Students
100
80
89
Recall Information
70
Easier to Learn
60
Apply, Analyze, Generalize
Concepts
Synthesize Information
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Help With AP Exam
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Identify Critical Information
Impact on Students
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Students internalize and
have ownership of the
CERs.
Students are more
focused and organized.
Student’s
understanding of critical
concepts improved.
Students see the value
of applying this thinking
and learning in other
areas.
Student Voices
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Why do you think
that the teacher
gave you this tool?
How does it help
you learn?
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Are we interested in learning
more CERs?
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YES
NO
Would like a review
Teachers’ needs for the future
expressed in the survey
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Teachers are interested
in deepening their
understanding of the
CERs already presented.
Teachers are interested
in learning more CERs.
Teachers feel that
support is crucial to
success. Time, money,
training, prioritization in
Staff Development.
The next steps at EHS
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Movement to a
critical mass of
teachers using
SIM
Collection of
objective data
EHS professional
developers train
other staff
members in CERs
in workshops
during the year
What we need from the district
and our administration
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Continued district support of SIM
program and training of new
teachers
Continued district and administration
support for common planning time
(discretionary and flexible)
SIM becoming the focus of our
Single School Plan
SIM is part of school philosophy and
new teacher training/hiring
Support of in-house Professional
Developers
SO WHAT?
Those of us who use SIM
routines recognize they
are an effective tool for
both teachers & students
that require informed
support & ongoing follow
up from all stakeholders.
SIM routines are effective
teaching & learning tools.
Strategic Instruction Model
Content Enhancement:
 Interactive tools and routines
that focus teaching and learning
Examples:
Course Organizer
 Unit Organizer
 Frames
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CE Feedback
Positives:
 Coaches help build fidelity and
continuity
 Students start to be meta-cognitive
in their approach to class-work
 Helps teachers to be strategic and
identify critical content, makes them
more organized and prepared for
classes
 Strategic students are participating in
class
CE Feedback
To work on:
 On going coaching, keep the
momentum
 Build district capacity for internal
coaching
 More structured time to calibrate
student work derived from SIM tools
 Share testing strategy learned in
Fusion with all students
CE 2008-2009
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District Reform Coach
Summer Institute
Individual sites moving along on
Content Literacy Continuum
Embedded Strategies - Chipman
 Developing SIM Leadership
Teams
On-going communication about
progress to public
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Strategic Instruction Model
Fusion Reading (Year 1)
 Specific reading strategies to
build students’ ability to:
predict
 decode
 comprehend
 read fluently with confidence
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Master strategies using low
level, high interest text.
TPS Cumulative Scores at AUSD
TPS Results: Student's Cumaltiv e Scores
Pre-TPS
Post-TPS
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Average Class Score
20.0
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Teacher / Class
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Fusion Feedback
Positives:
 Thoughtful ongoing professional
development including coaching
 Effective reading strategies
 Engaging novels to practice the
strategies
Student testimony
Fusion Feedback
To work on:
 Clarifying the link to standards
 Clarifying the assessments
 Understanding the whole picture
vs. individual strategies
 Fidelity
FUSION 08-09
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Fusion II –
Use strategies learned to tackle
non-fiction, grade level text
New Fusion I teachers
Ongoing professional development
and coaching differentiated for new
and continuing teachers
Push in assistance by RSP staff
Ongoing feedback to public
Strategic Instruction Model
Strategic Tutoring
 Afterschool support of strategic
students through tutors knowledge
and understanding of SIM tools,
routines, and strategies.
Alameda County visit to RISE program
indicates developing model of
coordination between the school day
and after school program!
Strategic Tutoring
Positives
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Implementation went well
Easy to teach to students
Needs Work
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More collaboration with teachers
Future Plans
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Deepen implementation
Keep students engaged
Strategic Instruction Model
New for 08-09:
Potential Professional Developers
 10 AUSD teachers
 Rigorous application process
 Summer Institute and ongoing
coaching
 1-2 year internship and training
 Multiple benefits to district to sustain
the project
Strategic Instruction Model
AUSD honored:
2008 SIM IMPACT
AWARD
for
District Implementation