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Curriculum and Instruction April 1, 2015

Things to remember

We will have another PD in two weeks

We will have another Grade Level Meeting later in the yearWe need your

help with that!

Agenda/Goals

C&I General InfoAMP reminders and

new informationExplore Domain 3 -

Instruction

15-16 Secondary Rotation

High SchoolPH Lit

• Dozens of supporting materials for teachers• Some sites will be

using the Distance class taught by Peggy Bruno

• Teacher materials were shipped to sites before Spring Break

• Student books will be coming soon.

• Save the PH Lit books from the last two years!

PH Lit Middle School

• Blue or Red books depending on the site

•Blue = 7th grade•Red = 8th grade

•Sites will rotate which book they use•If you used RED this year, you will use BLUE next year•If you used BLUE this year, you will use RED next year

• Please be ready to ship the textbooks and teacher materials you used this year to me during the last week of school.•One middle school textbook reduces the amount of planning for the teacher. •YKSD created Curriculum maps

WondersK-5 or K-6

• Sites are responsible for purchasing any needed extra materials

Math K-5 - My Math6-8 - Glencoe Math

• New Consumable books each year• Your site will be receiving these books in late spring or over the summer.• Training during in-service

Math 9-12

• Glencoe Math• Sites are responsible for purchasing any needed materials (we may be able to borrow from OWA sites)

• Odysseyware will be used at some sites.

Secondary Social Studies

• Teachers will teach the same SS to both high school and middle school students

• 15/16 – 1 Sem of AK History, 1 Sem of US Gov’t

• Textbooks:– Check your sites to see what you have available to

use for US Government (work with your principal)– AK History – Textbooks or Website?– May have to alternate sites due to textbook needs

• Emphasis should be on textual evidence– Using Text Structure (see handouts)– Referring back to the text when answering

questions.

AMP New InformationApril 1, 2015

New Information on ELA test EED became aware of a change in the

structure of the ELA assessment Monday morning. It is different than what we have provided training on.

For the ELA test only, there are two review and end screens for each section/ticket. The first review and end screen occurs when the students have finished either the stand-alone questions or the passage & associated questions.

Still a total of 70 questions for ELA test.

ELA AMP Tickets When students select "end" they will be

taken to the next set of directions and the final set of questions for that section/ticket.  

This is for all grades, all ELA sections/tickets.

Still 4 tickets for ELAStudents log in to ELA section with

ticket Ticket 1: sections 1-2 (25 questions

total) Ticket 2: sections 3-4 (15 questions

total) Ticket 3: sections 5-6 (15 questions

total) Ticket 4: sections 7-8 (15 questions

total)Student reads/listens to directionsStudent begins first set of questions

(number in each set varies by grade).

Student completes the first set of questions.The Review & End screen appears (w/green

checkmarks).Student raises hand and Test Administrator

checks to make sure all questions are answered.

Test Administrator may prompt students to go back and answer all questions in this set as students will not be able to go back into this set once they move on to the next set.

Student selects “End”.

Directions for the second set of questions for the section/ticket appear.

The student does not need to log in or enter a password or ticket number to enter the second set of questions.

Student begins second set of questions. Student raises hand when the “Review & End”

screen appears. Test Administrator checks to be sure all questions

are answered. Student selects “End”. Student uses next ticket to enter the next section.

What do we remember about

SLO’s?

Sample SLOEvery teacher will be piloting one SLO for next year

It will NOT be part of your evaluation

Google drive – What information needs to be included in an SLO?

Important items to notice on an SLO

page 1

Important items to notice on an SLO

page 2

YKSD Domain 3: Instruction

YKSD component 3c: Engaging Students in

Learning

If one component can claim to be the most important, it is student engagement. All the other components are in the service of student engagement.

What is engagement?

Student engagement…

is not the same as “busy” or “time on task”… Mere activity is inadequate for engagement. Nor is simple participation sufficient… what is required for student engagement is intellectual involvement with the content…”

(Framework for Teaching, p.83, 2007))

Engagement is NOT just keeping busy. Kids who are busy/on task are NOT

necessarily engaged.

3c – Engaging Students in Learning

Danielson’s engagement• Danielson also emphasizes

how many students are “engaged”.

• Asking one student to answer a question or do something on the board while the others watch automatically reduces the rating of that moment to basic or unsatisfactory.

• How often do teachers ask a question of one student?

Engagement vs. On Task

Papersignals withTri-fold paper

Engagement vs On Task paper signals with Tri-fold paper

1. Most students disregard the assignment given by the teacher; it appears to be much too difficult for them.

2. Students are given a task to do independently, then to discuss with a table group, followed by a reporting from each table.

3. The teacher assigns 15 math problems from the textbook and the students are quiet.

4. Students fill out the lesson worksheet by copying words from the board.

Engagement vs On Taskpaper signals with Tri-fold paper

1. The teacher gives notes for 45 minutes. He neatly writes the notes on the board so the students can copy exactly what he wants them to know.

2. The students follow the procedure of walking into class, picking up the worksheet and sit down to work.

3. The teacher energetically shows the students how to run a lab using magnets, paper clips, string and lima beans.

4. The teacher asks all students to use their personal whiteboards to work out the math problem written on the board.

Recognizing Teacher’s Role in Student Engagement

• Teacher is actively engaged in facilitating and providing assistance, feedback, clarification

• Teacher monitors actively during student seatwork

• All students, all the time• Teacher consistently insists

Sawyer Educational Consulting, LLC 2008

Prove it in the rubric!

– Let’s look at eight teacher prompts that typically occur in a classroom, decide if they are engaging or not using the 3c Engaging Students in Learning rubric.

– Go to Google Docs!

Big ideas about engagement and Component 3c

Engagement is NOT just keeping busy.

Kids who are busy/on task are NOT necessarily engaged.

How many students are engaged is important to the rating

The teacher should be actively engaged (facilitating / clarifying / scaffolding / providing feedback) with the students during seatwork

What about the rest of Domain 3?

– 3d – Using Assessment in Instruction• Assessment criteria• Monitoring of student learning• Feedback to students• Student self-assessment and monitoring

– 3e – Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness• Lesson adjustment• Response to students• Persistence

What about the rest of Domain 3?

3e – Demonstrating flexibility

Google Docs!

3d – Using assessment in instruction

List as many assessments or types of assessments that you can think of

• Assessments that you have used in schools • Assessments that you have seen used in schools.

• Assessments used outside of schools• Any assessments that you can think of

Google Docs!

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Working definitions for us to use

• Formative Assessment – is for the purpose of analyzing practice and student learning to guide future planning and development

• Summative Assessment – is intended to measure and evaluate student outcomes

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Formative Assessment

• Is diagnostic• Is ongoing

measurement of growth overtime

• Uses evidence of student learning to help teachers identify areas of strength and growth

• Provides students information to self monitor understanding

Summative assessment

• Is given at the end of unit or learning

• Is evaluative• Is used for grades or

promotion

Back to Google Docs to identify our examples in the gray boxes

3d – Using assessment in instruction – this is where it got

interesting to me!

Feedback is formative assessment if it causes students to think and improve their work. (Keep this in your head for a few slides!)

“Decades of research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning.”

- Marzano, Pickering & Pollock, 2001

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Less “teaching” and

more feedback equals

better results

So then, what is feedback?

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Characteristics of effective feedback

• Specific – refers to specific behavior or content/skill being learned, tells the student what was correct/incorrect, not focused on the learner

• Timely – immediate feedback, as often as possible

• Accurate – factual, objective, safe• Constructive – improves learning, identifies what’s done well and what needs to improve, and provides coaching on how to improve

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Remember from a few slides back…Feedback is formative assessment.

• Formative Assessment – is for the purpose of analyzing practice and student learning to guide future planning and development…like coaching

• Summative Assessment – is intended to measure and evaluate student outcomes…like grading papers right or wrong.

Grades are NOT feedback! Written or verbal comments and coaching are feedback!

3d – Using assessment in instruction

So based on what we just explored about summative and formative assessment, complete this old fashioned SAT analogy using the phrases summative assessment and formative assessment…..

Old evaluation system :_____________

::Danielson

Framework :_____________

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Do _________ use formative or summative assessments?

• Athletic coaches• Drama teachers in the school play• Marching band directors• Grandmas teaching knitting• Dads teaching car repair• People who care about your

learning

3d – Using assessment in instruction

Do _________ use formative or summative assessments?

• Athletic coaches• Drama teachers in the school play• Marching band directors• Grandmas teaching knitting• Dads teaching car repair• People who care about your learning

All of them use formative assessments and then provide

feedback to the learner

Closure

– Type into Google Docs!