engaging students through common core

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