Engaging Students through Common Core
3 R's : Reflect, Refresh, Renew
* Reflect - Ice-Breaker - Write down main purpose for attending session (index card)
* Refresh - Content - Experiential activities
* Renew - Closing - Memory minute into goal setting (other side of index card)
Our Purpose Today
• Housekeeping Reminders
• Agreement Review
• Ice Breaker
• Experientially learn strategies
• Verbally reflect on our practices
• Set a written goal to implement 3 new strategies
Agenda
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1. Understand general tenets of Common Core
2. Learn basic standards-based tools
3. Learn strategies to integrate the standards into your
own curriculum
Objectives
1.) Hands raised for questions
2.) Peace sign fingers = Our quiet sign
3.) Talk time = 2 minutes
4.) No food or phones during session
5.) Index cards
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Housekeeping Reminders
• Be Fully Present : No food or phones
• 2 B4 Me: 2 people share before I speak again
• Watch My Air Time: 2 minutes
• Use our Tools: Index cards, folders, etc.
• Snaps: Acknowledging the good I witness
- CPS Arts Department, 2014
Workshop Agreements
Guiding Question & Introductions:
What do you want to take away from this session? What are your needs?
Please Note: This goal is written on the colored index card
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Reflect – Ice-Breaker
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Common Core State Standards Overview
http://vimeo.com/51933492
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Anchor Standards
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Key Terminology
• Common Core State Standards (CCSS) – refers to the desired qualities of student work and
the degree of rigor that must be assessed and achieved. The standards do not dictate what
content is covered.• Cognitive Demand – The type of information a person is asked to process at any one time
(Webb’s Depth of Knowledge)• Relevance – One using their knowledge to tackle real-world problems with more than one
solution. • Rigor – Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high
levels, each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels, and each student
demonstrates learning at high levels. • Text Complexity – Meaning, structure, etc. of a reading passage (Lexile.com)• Close Reading – Requires a substantial emphasis on readers figuring out a high quality text
Rose M. Marsh, Ph. D. “Common Core State Standards: Rigor.” 2013.
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Text Complexity
http://youtu.be/Pj7HkZzgFFc
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Text Complexity
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
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Close Reading
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/student-annotated-reading-strategy
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Close Reading
Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
Production and Distribution of Writing:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Key Take-A-Way
Identify 3 new things you learned about the CCSS
Identify 2 questions you still have
Identify 1 way the CCSS may be relevant to your organization
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Partner Reflection
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Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
Think/Pair/Share
What types of activities are students currently engaged in?
How are they assessed?
How is information communicated to parents, teachers?
Are students currently being assessed for the intellectual work they’re doing?
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Partner Reflection
Using Outside Resource Examples
1. What It Takes To Be Great
2. I, Too, Sing America
3. Money Makes the World Go Round
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Refresh – Strategy #1
Key Take-A-Way
Are the lesson plan examples something you can use in your practice?
Why or why not?
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Partner Reflection
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Affective Variables
Academic Tenacity: about working hard, and working smart, for a long time
Deliberate Practice: Experts are experts at maintaining high-levels of practice and improving performance.
Habits of Mind: don't simply represent fragments of practice to "add on" to what you already do, but rather new ways to think about how people learn.
Growth Mindset: people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point.
Examining Current Activities
1. What type of learning activities do you conduct with students?
2. Which target the affective nature of learning?
3. What reflective opportunities do you currently offer students?
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Partner Reflection
Examining Current Activities
1. Examples of HOM
2. Examples of deliberate practice
3. Examples of academic tenacity
4. Examples of growth mindset
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Refresh – Strategy #2
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Assessment
• What does assessment look like?
• How is the information communicated?
• What is valuable and to whom?
Closing Question:
What 3 strategies/ideas/concepts will you take away from this session? How were your needs met?
Please Note: This goal is written on the back-side of the colored index card
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Renew – Goal Setting
America Achieves: http://commoncore.americaachieves.org
ELA Tools: http://www.ncesd.org/Page/1002
Literacy Design Collaborative: http://ldc.org
Math Tools: http://www.nctm.org/resources/content.aspx?id=32702
Math Vocabulary: http://www.ncesd.org/Page/983
PTA Parent Guides: http://www.pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2583
Teaching Channel: https://www.teachingchannel.org/
Text Complexity: https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/simplifying-text-complexity
What is Close Reading by T. Shanahanon:www.shanahanonliteracy.com
/2012/06/what-is-close-reading.html
Cognitive Resources
Academic tenacity:
http://collegeready.gatesfoundation.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=NP6zIG3zddI=&portalid=0
Addressing achievement gaps with psychological interventions:
http://web.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Welcome_files/Yeager%20Walton%20Cohen%202013.pdf
Dispositions - Reframing Teaching and Learning :www.corwin.com/books/Book242304#tabview=title
Deliberate Practice: http://expertenough.com/1423/deliberate-practice
Integrating the 16 Habits of Mind: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/habits-of-mind-terrell-heick
Mindset: http://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about/index.html
Student Success Skills: http://www.studentsuccessskills.com/
Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED542543.pdf
Why Academic Tenacity Matters:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/04/14/why-academic-tenacity-matters/
Affective Resources
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Common Core State Standards: Principles of Development: http://youtu.be/d1MVErnOD7c
Math Standards: http://youtu.be/dnjbwJdcPjE
English & Language Arts: http://youtu.be/JDzTOyxRGLI
Additional Common Core Resources