ars teacher pd - december 2009
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ARS Intro to ERF Curriculum
ARS PD Session 1December 5, 2009
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ARS Goals
• Best practice• Essential early literacy skills• Knowledgeable educators• 21st century learning
environments• Engaged parents and
communities
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What we will do today
• Find out what we already know… • Look at the PD curriculum,
schedule and options• Learn more about ARS• Start to examine the ARS
language and literacy curriculum
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Teacher Knowledge Assessment
• Focus on content – the ideas, facts, professional wisdom
• 45 items – about 45 minutes
• Aggregated scores • Compare before/after to evaluate the
quality of the PD – Do we know more when all is said and done
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PD Curriculum - understand, can do, adapt
Scope:• Literacy Development• Essential Skills• 21st Century Skills• Science-based Practice• Assessment• Instructional Materials• Lifelong learning• Recognize & Respond• Instructional Protocols• Environment Design• CBDM• Mature Play Skills• ICT applications• Goal setting & reflection
Sequence:• Fall, Winter, SpringAugust-June• Monthly full-day sessionsAll staff• Tutorials 2 hrs @ monthTeachers; small group with coach • Online 1 hr per month• Optional: online course 3cr
Teachers: 11 hrs/month [121 hrs]Teacher Assistants: 9 hrs/mo [99 hrs]
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ARS - a few more specifics
Teach high priority skills:
• Oral language comprehension• Vocabulary• Phonological awareness• Alphabet knowledge• Developmental writing• Print knowledge
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Oral Language Comprehension
What is it?
The ability to speak & listen with understanding. Includes grammar, word meanings & listening comprehension
Why is it important?
Provides the language foundation forlearning to read and write
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Vocabulary
• What is it?Words an individual knows and can use.
Vocabulary
Receptive Expressivelistening talking
• Why is it important?A strong predictor of reading comprehension. Vocabulary size at age 3 can predict reading comprehension at grade 3.
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The 30 million word gap…
45,000,000 Words
26,000,000 Words
13,000,000 Words
In four years, an average child would accumulate word experience with:
Hart, B. & Risley, T. (2003). The early catastrophe: the 30 million word gap by age 3. American Educator (spring) www.aft.org/american_educator
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Phonological Awareness
What is it?• Awareness of the sound structure of speech
Why is it important?• Provides information for sound-symbol matching
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Developmental sequence
word play
rhyming
alliteration
segmenting
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Alphabet Knowledge
What is it?
Knowledge of letter names and sounds
Why is it important?
One of the strongest predictors of beginning reading
(learning to read).say the letters, tell the sound of the letters, write the letters
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The alphabetic principle - making sound-symbol matches
phonological awareness
alphabetic principle
alphabet knowledge
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Developmental writing
What is it?
• First attempts at spelling words and composing texts.
Why is it important?
• Develops understanding of how words work to communicate meaning
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Spelling trajectory…
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Spelling, cont’d.
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Developmental Sequence
marks
draw & mark
name-writing
word writing
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Print Knowledge
What is it?• Concepts about print; knowledge of reading
terms, rules and procedures.
Why is it important?• Motivates the learn-to-read process; a marker of
literacy experience at home and school
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Book HandlingScript: Take a look at my book. First, I’ll ask you some questions about it.
Then, if you want, we can read the story in the book.
Circle 1 for a correct response; 0 for an incorrect response
Show me the cover of the book. Show me the title of the book. Show me a page in the book. Show me the bottom of the page. Point to the first word on the page. Point to the last word on the page. Show me where to start reading. Show me with your finger which way to go when I read.
Criterion: Greater than or equal to 2. >2
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Assessment-Essential Skills Connection
Oral Language
Vocabulary
Phonological Awareness
Alphabet Knowledge
Developmental Writing
Print Knowledge
ALL
PPVT-IV
GGG
GRTR
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ALL
External Evaluation (child outcomes)
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Mature Play
Read Alouds
Core HT-P
technology
ARS Language & Literacy Curriculum
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HT-P PreK Trophies
• Unit1: Here I Am• Unit2: Let’s Explore• Unit3: Day to Day January • Unit4: Animals• Unit 5:The Natural World
@ unit has 5 themes (1 per week)Total time: 25 weeks
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Read Alouds
• Goal: 350 books per classroom• Read: 3-5 unit-related books per day
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ERF overlaps with CC
CCHTLiteracy
Read Alouds
Centers (play areas)
30-45 min: Instruction
60-75 min: Play/sm grp
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Targets & Upcoming…
January
…start PreK Trophies Unit 3…study the learning environment DEW;
ELLCO
…view ARS web site…prepare for PD session Jan 25
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ARS Goals
• Best practice• Essential early literacy skills• Knowledgeable educators• 21st century learning
environments• Engaged parents and
communities