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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
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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?
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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?
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?
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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?
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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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?
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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
