Getting Students Ready for Success in AP · •Pair with someone in your group and compare your...

Getting Students Ready for Success in AP

Join us to explore research-based strategies to help students activate their background knowledge, deepen comprehension, and use thinking strategies that will propel them forward as students take on rigorous coursework. This workshop offers middle and high school teachers content specific strategies that enable students to discover and work with the tasks that will develop those skills essential for success in AP.

NC AP Partnership Ensuring College and Career Success

for North Carolina’s Students

Kathleen Koch, Director NC AP Partnership

Jerry McMahan, Associate Director, NC AP Partnership

NCAPP Mission

The mission of the Partnership between The College Board and the state of North Carolina is to prepare, inspire, and connect students to postsecondary success and opportunity, with a particular focus on minority students and students who are underrepresented in postsecondary education.

“It is the intent of the State of North Carolina to enhance accessibility and encourage students to enroll in and successfully complete more rigorous advanced courses to enable success in postsecondary education for all students. The North Carolina State Board of Education shall seek a partner to form the North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership, hereinafter referred to as Partnership, to assist in improving college readiness of secondary students and to assist secondary schools to ensure that students have access to high-quality, rigorous academics with a focus on access to Advanced Placement courses (G.S. 115C-83.4A).”

Student – Focused Classroom

Who’s Driving the Tahoe?

Strategies

• Collaborative • Reading • Writing • Problem Solving

Content/Curriculum vs. Content Delivery

Student Learning Groups

• Problem-Solving Partnerships • Cooperative Teams • Collaborative Groups

http://www.ncappartnership.org/effective-teaching-resources.html

Different Flavors of Learning Groups

Strategy Sharing - Collaborative

Sections:

• Effective Groups Have Much in Common • Problem-Solving Partnerships • Cooperative Teams • Collaborative Groups

Four minutes

Professional Reading Activity

Student Learning Groups that Really Work – by Carol Damian

• Silently read your section underlining or highlighting things that seem important or relevant. If you finish early, read the section in gray.

• In complete sentences, write down something from the reading that resonated with you and explain why.

• Pair with someone in your group and compare your responses. How were your responses alike/different?

• As a group, come up with a summary of your reading section. One of you will be responsible for reporting out to the group. That person will be revealed shortly.

• The person with a birthday closest to today will report out for the group. The groups listening should take notes and will be asked to paraphrase their peers’ reports.

Strategy Sharing - Debriefing

What were some of the strategies you noticed in the professional reading activity?

Which strategies maximized engagement?

Which strategies helped hold you accountable?

When do you think the activity was most rigorous? Why? What might have been done to make it more rigorous?

Strategy Sharing - Collaborative

What are some collaborative or cooperative strategies you have had success with during class?

How do you get maximum involvement?

How do you hold all accountable?

How do you make sure that the activities are rigorous?

SpringBoard Strategies - Collaborative

How might these strategies look in a math or science classroom?

SpringBoard Strategies - Collaborative

Write

Debriefing Techniques

http://www.supportrealteachers.org/debriefing-techniques.html

Strategies - Reading

What are some reading strategies you have had success with during class?

SpringBoard Strategies - Reading

SpringBoard Strategies - Reading

SpringBoard Strategies - Reading

SpringBoard Strategies - Writing

SpringBoard Strategies – Problem Solving

SpringBoard Strategies – Problem Solving

Problem - Solving Strategy Sharing

What are some teaching strategies you have had success with during class? How did you maximize involvement? How did you hold everyone accountable? How did you make sure it was rigorous?

How we teach should hold equal weight with what we are teaching.

Science Practices

Other resources

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/7079

Putting it all Together

Strategies, Questioning, and Rigor AP

How does your lesson encourages Higher Order Thinking

You Might Be a Teacher Using Higher-Order Thinking Skills If…

Learners are active and in continuous dialogue with you

Learning is constructing, not telling

Truth is discovered, not told

The teacher “steers from the rear” functioning as a facilitator, not a lecturer

Questioning

Focus on HOTS not lots (quality versus quantity)

Will your lesson/questioning require ALL students to think, create, analyze and synthesize?

Plan questions in advance. Really thought provoking question don’t just appear magically during a lesson.

Blooms, Depth of Knowledge, Costa’s Level of Inquiry

(NCAPP website has links to all of these taxonomies)

Debrief and Summary

Effective Strategies HOT Questions Rigorous Activities

Putting it All Together

Let the students do most of the driving.

Utilize a myriad of strategies.

Strive for active engagement.

Plan ahead of time for those enriching, thought provoking questions.

After all, you won’t be there to drive for them on test day.

It will liven the lesson, help with differentiation and increase understanding.

100% student engagement, 100% of the time.

They seldom get asked when we “fly by the seat of our pants”.

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Contact Information

Kathleen Koch Director, NC AP Partnership

kkoch@collegeboard.org

Jerry McMahan Associate Director, NC AP Partnership

jmcmahan@collegeboard.org