THE COLLEGE READY PROMISE TEACHER TRAINING

MODULE 2COLLEGE-READINESS: A PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE AMONG EDUCATORSIndicators 1.2B, 3.2B, 3.4C

AgendaGoal

Agenda and Overview

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Review the Key Cognitive Strategies,Academic Behaviors, Academic Knowledge and Skills, and Contextual Skills and Awareness

To build baseline familiarity with the four components of college-readiness as defined by Conley

Review a Performance-Based Task

Review College-Ready Objectives

To deepen understanding of how to create tasks that incorporate the components

To deepen understanding of how to write a college-ready objective

Create strategies to implement the college-ready components

To deepen understanding of how to develop the components within students

College-Readiness: A Professional Discourse among Educators

based on Redefining College Readiness

by David T. Conley

College-ReadinessDefinitionthe level of preparation a student needs in order to enroll in and succeed in – without remediation – a general education college that offers a baccalaureate degree

Succeed completing courses at a level of understanding and proficiency that makes it possible for the student to take the next course in the sequence.

College-Readiness

Understand what is expected in a college course

Cope with the content knowledge that is presented

Exit the course with the key lessons and dispositions the course was designed to convey

The college-ready student will…

not simply survive college, but will get the most out of the experience and will contribute to the intellectual property of the institution

College-Readiness

The college-ready student will…

Academic Behaviors

Key Cognitive Strategies

Academic Knowledge and Skills

Contextual Sills and Awareness

Components of College-Readiness

Intellectual OpennessInquisitiveness

AnalysisSelf-Monitoring

Reasoning, Argumentation, and ProofInterpretation

Problem SolvingPrecision and Accuracy

Key Cognitive StrategiesPage 12-14

1. With a partner, discuss how you currently do or could incorporate the

key cognitive strategies into your units of study.

2. Share out with larger group.

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Key Cognitive Strategies

3. As each pair shares out, individually, write down one idea that you’ve never used but think you will try this year.

4. Individually, write down which staff member/s you think are most responsible for developing these strategies within the students?

5. Whole Group Discussion of #4.

Key Cognitive Strategies

Overarching Academic Skills

Academic Knowledge and Skills

Writing • the means by which students are evaluated to some degree in every college course• expository, descriptive, and persuasive• complete the entire writing process prior to submission• style manual• free of conventional errors

Research• Appropriate strategies and methodologies• Appropriate source material• Synthesize• Access information

page 14

EnglishScienceMath

The ArtsSocial Studies

World Languages

Academic Knowledge and Skills

Core Academic Subjects Knowledge and Skillspages 15-16

Overarching Academic Skills

Academic Knowledge and Skills

Writing and research should be a component of all high school courses.

Overarching Academic Skills

Academic Knowledge and Skills

1. With another partner, discuss how you currently do or could incorporate writing and research into your lessons.

2. Each pair teams up with another pair to discuss how writing and research could be coordinated among the departments?

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Overarching Academic Skills

Academic Knowledge and Skills

3. Individually, write down one idea about incorporating writing and/or research that you will commit to this year.

Study SkillsSelf-Awareness

Time ManagementSelf-Monitoring

PersistenceSelf-Control

Study Groups

Academic Behaviorspages 16-17

Contextual Skills and Awareness

Understand the Admission ProcessUnderstand the Financial Aid Process

Understand the Norms of Academic CultureInteract with Professors

Collaborate and Work in Teams

College Knowledgepage 17

Contextual Skills and Awareness

Whole Group Discussion1. Who do you think is the staff member/s most responsible for developing contextual skills and awareness among the students?

2. What other staff members could contribute?

3. What is one step we can all agree on to get started?

College Knowledge

College-Readiness

1. Divide staff into 5 groups. Each group reads about how one of the college-ready components could be measured and one group reads page 22 about integrating the four sources. Prepare to share out with the larger group.

2. As each group presents, individuals write down at least one measurement they would like to see used and one other one they can think of that wasn’t mentioned.

Measuring the Componentspages 20-22

Putting it All Together Performance-Based Task

College-Readiness Objectives