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Discovery Education Common Core Academy:

Discovery Education Common Core Academy:. Making Common Sense Out of the ELA Common Core January 23-24, 2013 Karen M. Beerer , Ed.D . Karen_beerer@discovery.com. Welcome Back!. Yesterday’s Questions, Comments, Suggestions. Resources to Support Your Work.

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Discovery Education Common Core Academy:

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  1. Discovery Education Common Core Academy: Making Common Sense Out of the ELA Common Core January 23-24, 2013 Karen M. Beerer, Ed.D. Karen_beerer@discovery.com

  2. Welcome Back!

  3. Yesterday’s Questions, Comments, Suggestions

  4. Resources to Support Your Work • Introducing Symbaloo: www.symbaloo.com - black, apple: “Core” sites - red, books: Curriculum sites - green, owl: Instruction sites - pink, ticket: Assessment sites - orange, triangle: Articles You’ve Got to Read!

  5. Beginning With The End In Mind: The Assessments

  6. Beginning With The End In Mind: The Assessments

  7. An Assessment Review • Why Smarter Balanced? • What does it look like electronically? • What does the media component look like? • Ultimately, it doesn’t matter… • Your Task: • Select an ELA area of interest. • Complete the assessment tasks (or as many as you can complete in the allocated time.) • As you are completing the tasks, keep an “evidence/interpretation” chart of your findings. • Evidence: What will students need to know and be able to do? • Interpretation: What does this mean for our instruction? curriculum? assessment?

  8. Findings? Get together with your 9:00 partner. Discuss your evidence/interpretation findings. Report out.

  9. An Assessment Starting Point

  10. Creating Your Own Assessment • Use the Assessment Planning Tool to design an assessment task that you can use in your classroom. • Use the text complexity exemplar section of the CCSS appendices to select a text to use with your students. • The LDC task templates will help you frame the language of your assessment task once you determine the content, standard, skills and text(s). You may also utilize one of their rubrics. • K-3 Primary Teachers? A Quick Caucus…

  11. Appendix B: Text Exemplars

  12. Breakout Sessions Breakout Session #1: Complex and Close This session will focus on text complexity and how to conduct close readings as a strategy for helping students comprehend complex texts as well as cite textual evidence. Breakout Session #2: What’s Your Evidence? This session will also focus on text complexity, but will examine the essential qualities of effective text-dependent questions and how to teach students to answer them while reading complex texts.

  13. You Knew It Was Coming: A Word About Critical Experiences for Learning: The Power of Video

  14. What can you do tomorrow? • Ask fewer, better questions • Allow students freedom to discuss • Implement a formative assessment daily in one area • Increase the level of rigor by strengthening your “citing evidence” instruction

  15. One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow? The Importance of Digital Media and Technology • “5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the Common Core State Standards” (Davis) • Lead High-Level, Text-Based Discussions • Focus on Process, Not Just Content • Create Assignment for Real Audiences and Real Purposes • Teach Argument, Not Persuasion • Increase Text Complexity

  16. One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow? The Importance of Digital Media and Technology “5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the Math Common Core State Standards” (Spencer) 1. Combine content and practice.  2. Don’t rely solely on the textbook. 3. Make connections across the standards.  4. Create a classroom environment where students feel free to invent strategies.  5. Engage students in rich mathematical discussions.

  17. One More…What Can You Do Tomorrow? The Importance of Digital Media and Technology Lead High-Level, Text-Based Discussions Engage Students in Rich Mathematical Discussions Teach Argument, Not Persuasion Make Connections Across the Standards Increase Text Complexity Don’t Rely Solely on the Textbook Essential Questions Which scene in the video is the best representation of math in everyday life? Argue to determine the video’s best representation of life. This is an easy one… Nonfiction texts Pair with a text exemplars: A Bat is Born, Secret Garden… Math? The Flipped Classroom!

  18. Creating Your Plan and Toolbox • Guided Planning: • Think about what you were going to do next week and change the “how” …Create a new assessment task …Create text dependent questions for a text …Select new complex texts and plan how to teach students a close reading

  19. Wrap-Up  I CAN identify the content, format and structure of the ELA CCSS.  I CAN describe the essential classroom elements of instruction to ensure all students meet the CCSS.  I CAN explain curriculum and assessment strategies to implement CCSS in my classroom, school or district.  I CAN determine my next steps to implement CCSS successfully in my classroom, school, district and select useful resources to support me.

  20. Yesses and Noees The Yesees said yes to anything That anyone suggested.
The Noees said no to everything
Unless it was proven and tested.
So the Yesees all died of much too much
And the Noees all died of fright,
But somehow I think the Thinkforyourselfees All came out all right. [Shel Silverstein, Everything on It]

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