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Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Improving Student Achievement

Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Improving Student Achievement. Adolescent Literacy. Sarah Dollevoet , Reading Specialist, Literacy Support Teacher, Special Education Teacher Tamara Maxwell, Reading Specialist, Literacy Support Teacher, English Teacher. Need help with an answer?

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Supporting Teacher Effectiveness Improving Student Achievement

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  1. Supporting Teacher EffectivenessImproving Student Achievement Adolescent Literacy Sarah Dollevoet, Reading Specialist, Literacy Support Teacher, Special Education Teacher Tamara Maxwell, Reading Specialist, Literacy Support Teacher, English Teacher

  2. Need help with an answer? Text CHACHA! 13674 and your response

  3. Adolescent Literacy Plan Literacy instruction for all students, across all content areas

  4. 15% of the junior/senior population • Content Area & Special Education Teachers

  5. Given a 7th grade text, • 39% Independent • 17% Instructional • 44% Frustrated YAL students typically… • lack motivation. • struggle with reading and/or writing. • are credit deficient. • have an average 2.44 GPA. • Given an 8th grade text, • 30% Independent • 35% Instructional • 55% Frustrated

  6. Young Adult Literature MAP Scores

  7. Kids need to read a lot • Kids need books they can read • Kids need to learn to read fluently • Kids need to develop thoughtful literacy • Kids need quality classroom instruction

  8. A dearth of interesting materials • Less time on reading; more time for testing • Not enough reading time in school • Over-teaching of books • Over-analysis of books • Over-teaching of academic texts

  9. Conceptual Units Instructional Practices Technology

  10. Conceptual Units • Identify enduring understandings and essential questions. • Identify a final project. • Create a backwards plan.

  11. Knowledge vs. Understanding

  12. Conceptual Units Enduring Understandings • Thematic • People choose to be untruthful. • There are consequences for being untruthful. • One's perspective shapes the truth. • Writing • Writers develop, support, and organize their ideas to inform audiences. • Word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions enhance meaning. • Reading • Using reading strategies advances reading comprehension.  • Analyzing text structures and literary devices advances reading comprehension.

  13. Conceptual Units Essential Questions • Thematic • Why are people untruthful?  • When is it okay, if ever, to be untruthful? • What are the consequences of being untruthful? • How does one's perspective shape the truth? • Writing • How do writers develop, support, and organize their ideas to inform audiences? • How do word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions enhance meaning? • Reading • How do reading strategies advance reading comprehension? • How do text structures and literary devices advance reading comprehension?

  14. Conceptual Units Instructional Practices Technology

  15. Read Aloud or Shared Reading • Determine the purpose • Select the text • Rehearse the reading • Plan opportunities to model your process of reading, comprehension, and fluency • Read the text stopping to think aloud • Discuss Instructional Practices

  16. Interactive Reading • Say Something Technique • Read, Cover, Remember, Retell Technique • Partner Jigsaw Technique • Two-Word Technique • Reverse Think-Aloud Technique Instructional Practices

  17. Gradual Release Model TO WITH BY Modeled student Shared Interactive Guided teacher Independent Instructional Practices

  18. Formative Assessments Instructional Practices

  19. Conferencing • Whole Group • Quick Share • Check In • One-on-One or Small Group Instructional Practices

  20. Discussions • Tableaux (Wilhelm) • Puppet shows • Playdough • Painting • Sidewalk chalk • WikkiStix Instructional Practices

  21. Conceptual Units Instructional Practices Technology

  22. Using and Creating Schema • Quick Writes • On the Fence • Four Corners • Week in Rap/Article of the Week • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  23. On the Fence Social networking sites have no educational value.

  24. Maybe Not Definitely Do you think men have it easier in our culture? Maybe Absolutely Not

  25. Maybe Not Definitely Would you like to be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life? Maybe Absolutely Not

  26. Monitor for Meaning • Conversation Logs • Brains • Story Element Cards • Beach Ball • Silent Discussions • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  27. Conversation Logs

  28. Conversation Logs

  29. Brains

  30. Brains

  31. Monitor for Meaning • Conversation Logs • Brains • Story Element Cards • Beach Ball • Silent Discussions • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  32. Questioning • QAR • Concept Ladder • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  33. Concept Effects of? Roots of? Related to? Caused by? Seen in? Connected to? Examples of? Eliminated by? Concept Ladder

  34. Determining Importance • One-Sentence Summary Frames • Q-Notes • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  35. Visualizing • Concept Maps • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  36. Radial Map: Describing or Gathering Ideas

  37. Venn Diagram: Comparing/Contrasting

  38. Sequence Map: Sequencing events

  39. Cause/Effect Map: Showing Relationship Event

  40. Inferring • Second Draft Reading • What does it say? • What does it mean? • What does it matter? • Syntax Surgery • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  41. Synthesizing • Two-Column Notes • Double Bubble • Instructional Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  42. Double Bubble

  43. Conceptual Units Instructional Practices Technology

  44. Independent Packet • Book Talk • Book Project • Small Group Discussions • Independent Texts Instructional Practices Technology

  45. Independent Book Packet: Cover

  46. Independent Book Packet

  47. Independent Book Packet

  48. Independent Book Packet

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