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Instructional Norms

Team

September 17, 2013

Norms

Start and end on time

Actively participate

Use electronic devices professionally

Take care of your personal needs

Resources

District Wiki:

wiki.sjcoe.net/groups/jefferson

Teaching Channel:teachingchannel.org

Literacy TA

Objectives

Ice Breaker

Common Core Implementation Timeline and Updates

Review the purpose of the Norms Team

Cohesive approach to PD – tying it all together

Critical Thinking in the Common Core

Analyzing, Evaluating and Problem Solving

Site Planning Time

2012-13

• Create implementation plan• Leadership level training• Training on CC ELA• Instructional Guides for CC ELA• Preliminary look at Assessments & Technology

2013-14

• Implementation of CC ELA• Training of CC Math• Training for Illuminate & CC Itembank• Planning/Pilots for Assessment & Technology• Evaluating Math curriculum• Smarter Balanced Field Test

2014-15

• Implementing CC Math• Math curriculum adoption• Technology integration• Smarter Balance Operational

AB 484

Suspends STAR for 2013-14

Exceptions:

Science 5th, 8th, 10th

Special Education

Suspends API for 2 years

Expands SBAC field testing

Function and Purpose of the Instructional Norms Team

Build leadership and presentation capacity from within the district

Disseminate critical information and training from the district to the site

Support teachers with resources and mentoring following training

Norms Team serves as models of professional practices

Assumptions

Material and information is delivered accurately

Training milestones are being met

Administrators are following up with teachers and conducting observations

Norms Team members report site feedback and progress back to the committee

Coherence in Professional Development

Reflection

What support or training do you need at the site level in order for this model to work?

Thinking Skills in the Common Core

Critical Thinking

Collaborative Thinking

Evidentiary Thinking

Argumentative Thinking

Think About It…

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold.” -Thomas Edison

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Text

Speaking and Listening

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Thinking Shifts in the Common Core

If we want students to change the way they think, we MUST change the way we teach.

Students don’t only need to know the facts to be successful.

Students must be able to THINK CRITICALLY

Students must be able to ANALYZE and EVALUATE INFORMATION

Students must be able to SOLVE PROBLEMS

Content VS Thinking Skill-Based Teaching

ContentCentral focus is on memorizing and recalling facts and information.

Assessments measure what has been memorized.

Ideas are copied from a screen onto notepaper.

Teacher does most of the thinking and presents solutions.

Thinking Skill BasedCentral focus is on students making meaning from new learning.

Assessments measure growth and identify supports needed.

Understanding is acquired through analysis, evaluation and application.

Students are expected to think critically and solve their own problems.

Table Talk

What types of thinking skill-based instruction do you currently do well?

What are the areas of growth?

Focus Questions

What will critical thinking look like?

What will critical thinking sound like?

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Text

Speaking and Listening

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Reading Literature Anchor Standard 5Analyze the structure of texts,

including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each

other and the whole.

Table Talk

Look at how Anchor Standard 5 progresses from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

What do you notice about how the development of critical thinking occurs over time?

Teaching Channel Poetry Lesson

Reflection

How does “spotting patterns” and the “jumbled line” tasks engage students in deep analysis?

How does this approach make a complex poem easier to grasp?

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Text

Speaking and Listening

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Reading Informational TextAnchor Standard 3Analyze how and why individuals,

events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a

text.

Table Talk

Look at how Anchor Standard 3 progresses from Kindergarten through 8th grade.

What do you notice about how the development of critical thinking occurs over time?

Keep It or Junk It: A Student Led Lesson

Reflection

How does the Keep It or Junk It activity demonstrate critical thinking, evaluation and analysis of the text?

How do student facilitators affect participation, engagement and problem solving?

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Critical Thinking in Advertisement

The ALL-NEW 2014 ISCHANGE/LANESWhen all signs point in one direction, you can choose to go with the crowd. Or you can go your own way. With aggressive styling, supercar-inspired interior and sport-tuned suspension, the all-new 2014 Lexus IS F Sport is amazing in motion – designed with one purpose – to stand apart. It’s your MOVE.

Reflection

Why would it be helpful to K-8 students to start practicing analyzing a text with something like an advertisement?

What skills does a lesson like this teach students?

Connections to Illuminate

How can we make connect these skills to Illuminate and SBAC?

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Text

Speaking and Listening

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1. Create an Itembank Assessment

2. Select standards from the Common Core

3. Browse through multiple choice, constructed response and performance tasks.

Reflection

How can teachers use Illuminate to help in the implementation of Common Core?

Observing Critical Thinking

What will critical thinking look like?

What will critical thinking sound like?

Looking Back…

Ice Breaker

Common Core Implementation Timeline and Updates

Review the purpose of the Norms Team

Cohesive approach to PD – tying it all together

Critical Thinking in the Common Core

Analyzing, Evaluating and Problem Solving

Site Planning Time

Training PlanDate Site Training Objective

9/30 Traina & Monticello

Hawkins & Jefferson

Safety Training

Critical Thinking, Follow Up with Math & Illuminate

10/28 Traina & Monticello

Hawkins & Jefferson

Critical Thinking, Follow Up with Math & Illuminate

Safety Training