Planning Lessons to Leverage City Year

Corps MembersJune 28, 2012

Emily Farley, Ryan Mattingly, Jacquelyn Thomas, Tom Van Hulle

Impact on Student Learning with External Instructional Supports

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Outside InstructionalSupports Activity (Jacqui)

Along with City Year, you may have multiple stakeholders that directly interact with students to assist instruction.Directions:Step #1—At your table, brainstorm all the external supports that work in your building that assist instruction.Step #2—Identify a person to share your list with the whole group.

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City Year at DCPrep (Tom)

• Video here

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Forging InstructionalRelationships (Ryan)

• Building positive relationships between Corps Members and students

• Developing and modeling Corps Members instructional expectations

• Developing and articulating communication protocols

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Lesson Planning

• Sample Lesson Analysis (Jacqui)

• Corps Member: Instructional Support (Emily)– Activity (complete strategies columns—”Can Do”

and “Should Not”)– Analyze completed document– Q & A

• Teacher/Corps Member Tool (Tom)

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Closing—Brainstorming Strategies (Jacqui)

Directions• Respond to the following prompt individually

and discuss as a table:– “If you have a non-teacher working with students

in the classroom, what three things can they do to support meaningful instruction?”

• Record the best three strategies on the strip of paper (provided).

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“If you’re failing to plan,you’re planning to fail.”

Thank you for your time and attention!