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The Official Pre-AP® Program
Leading Rigorous Instructionfor Common Core
Mathew Ostendorf, SpringBoard District Coach
Alex Chavarry, SpringBoard Senior Director,
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Goals
•Participants will leave with key instructional strategies to support teachers in the implementation of Common Core across subject areas
•Participants will leave with a process and tools to immediately establish a common definition of rigor with observable look-fors for their school
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Common Core Instructional Shifts
•Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction & informational texts
•Reading & Writing grounded in evidence from text
•Regular practice with complex text & its academic vocabulary
FOCUS QUESTION:
How can we make the rigor of the CCSS accessible for all students?
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Segment 1:
Close Reading with a Pre-AP Strategy
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Close Reading
Activity:
1. Individually read and highlight especially difficult or meaningful words
2. Discuss your findings in your groups (compare/contrast)3. Fill out the assigned section of your SOAPSTone graphic organizer,
including textual support for your responses4. Share out with the group
Strategies:Close ReadingMarking the TextGroup/Class DiscussionSOAPSTone
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Segment 2:
Co-Constructing a Thematic Statement
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Co-ConstructingActivity:
1. Individually, identify a subject and an opinion (i.e., what the author is saying about the subject)
2. Using a model from the instructor, construct your own theme statement
3. Share and Respond with your partners/groups and identify a group theme statement to share with the class
4. Return to your SOAPSTone graphic organizers to identify textual evidence you could use to support the statement
5. Share out with the group
Strategies:Guided WritingSharing and Responding
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Segment 3:
Socratic Seminar
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Socratic SeminarActivity:
1. Review the Rules2. Create an inner/outer circle (fishbowl)
• Inner Circle: Discussion members (Respond to questions using textual support to uncover the ideas, issues, and values of a complex text)
• Outer Circle: Recorders (What do you hear? What ideas do you agree or disagree with? How did your discussion partner participate?)
3. Participate in the Socratic Seminar4. Discuss observations5. Review variations
Strategies:Socratic SeminarNote – Taking Levels of Questioning (optional)
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Indicators of Rigorous Instruction
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SpringBoard’s Working Definition of Rigor
Rigorous instruction operates within, but at the outer edge of, students’ ability to master the content as evidenced by the standards.
Rigorous instruction includes the following:•Content that focuses on depth over breadth•Strategies that scaffold students through varying cognitive levels•Assessments designed to measure students’ ability to synthesize learning and adapt that knowledge to different contexts
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Reflection:
► What elements of your “experience” are reflected in your assigned domain of the definition of rigor? To CCSS?
► What questions or instructions could you share with a teacher to help facilitate rigorous instruction in writing?
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Foundational StrategiesActivity:
1. Review the handout Foundational Strategies for Maximizing Success with CCSS
2. Think Pair Share a response to the following:
What will you take back with you and apply to help lead rigorous instruction on your campus? How will these strategies help with
the shifts associated with CCSS?
Strategies:Think-Pair-Share
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Thank you!
For more information: www.collegeboard.com/springboard
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Mathew Ostendorf, SpringBoard District [email protected]
Alex Chavarry, SpringBoard Senior [email protected]
