Prepared for the HCPS K – 2 Collaborative Learning Team Members of

HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D., flexiblecreativity.com, (twitter: @drdanmulligan)

August 2015

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SECOND QUESTION:

RELATIONSHIPS + RIGOR + RELEVANCE =

RESULTSEssential

VocabularyEssential

Skills

EssentialKnowledge

LEARNING TARGET

HIGH EXPECTATIONS“Sometimes the questions are complex but the answers are simple.”

~Dr. Seuss

Resources

to

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Think Pad is a resource designed to:• provide evidence of

understanding and participation during student-to student dialogue

• facilitate student reflection on their thinking

1. Create an Environment for Learning– Helping students know what is expected of them, providing

students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills

2. Helping Students Develop Understanding– Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge– Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps

required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought

3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge– Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded

understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.

Framework for Instructional Planning McREL, 2012

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Google Mapsfor

Results

4 – second partner

Find a friend from another schools and grade-level. Say ‘hello’.

Find 2 comfortable seats and relax.*Please bring your handout and a pen(cil)!

Work collaboratively (e.g., construct viable arguments, critique, agree) to identify key

words that capture the essential elements of

strategies to assist all students to be

successful used last year with fidelity.

Enjoy working with your new best friend.

Last year’s successful learning strategiesCREATING AN

ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING

SETTING OBJECTIVES AND

PROVIDING FEEDBACK

Unpacking the Standard

A. CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNINGADDITIONAL SAMPLE RESOURCES

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A. CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNINGFOSTERING COLLABORATION WITH TECHNOLOGY

PRELIMINARY 2015 SOL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA BY DIVISION - SPRING 2015 SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITIES

1. Create an Environment for Learning– Helping students know what is expected of them, providing

students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills

2. Helping Students Develop Understanding– Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge– Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps

required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought

3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge– Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded

understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.

Framework for

Instructional Planning McREL, 2012

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HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING

Assessing for Conceptual Understanding (These are…These are not)

Suggestion from Research:

Open (begin) with the rigor…

…but rather than rigor…scaffold the experience for students to foster rigor with nurturing…

If you want a learner to

truly understand

and own essential

knowledge, expand your exploration

from ‘what it is’ to also ‘what it is

NOT’.

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Research on Imagery as Elaboration

637 percentile pts. higher

than… …students who kept repeating definitions.

421 percentile pts. higher

than… …students who were using the terms in a sentence.

Students who used imagery to learn vocabulary, on average, performed

# of studies

50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

Elvis

Organizing Theme:

Things someone would say…

Bill Clinton

MadonnaMickey Mouse

Aretha Franklin

Mohammad Ali

Famous Americans of the 20th

Century

THROWBACK

TUESDAY!

1 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

Matter

Line of Symmetry

Third from Right

Pattern

Solid Shapes

Solid

Rotation

50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

Rigor

Organizing Theme:

Teaching/Learning

Strategies

Relevance

CollaborationCritical Thinking

Formative Assessment

Relationships

50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

Ways to make .25

Grade 4Math

Things that are parallel

perimeter

Types of graphs

area

Types of angles

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

Advanced Organizers

Use Visuals

Advanced organizers help students organize the information and retain 5 times more of the information.

VENN DIAGRAMS

red thick

small

DOK 2: Basic Skills and Concepts

Animals Plants

VENN DIAGRAMS

Fiction Nonfiction

Motor MouthThings associated with

SCHOOL

BooksReport Cards

TeachersSchool BusCafeteriaPencilsErasers

Things associated with

PLANTS

RootsStems

PhotosynthesisFlowersLeavesWaterSeeds

Things associated with

MATTER

SolidLiquidGas

MixturesSolutions

AtomsMolecules

Opportunity

Good Instruction(Keep it Simple…Keep it Real)

“We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already

know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it

must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we

haven’t so far.” ~Ron Edmonds

Kinds of Evidence – Continuum of EvidenceInformal Check for Understanding

Name a noun. Form a sentence.

Name a verb. Name an adjective

? ?

How can you use the Where do I belong? structure to support your

role as teacher/administrator?

A = bh

Opposite sides equal

1 right angle

Right Triangle

4 sides

3 sides

4 right angles

A = ½ bhRectangle

One side is the longest

OPEN TASK AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE

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Thank you for your commitment to children!

"It's your attitude, not just your aptitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

--Zig Ziglar

Dan

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