Communication, Connection,

and Common CoreMamse Presentation By: Kattie Hogan and Aimee Carbone

Overview• Introduction of Presenters

• Overview of Advisory Class

• Theoretical Framework, Beliefs That Guide Our Work

• Try It Outs and Debriefing

• Walk Away-How Can You Transform Your Classroom Instruction?

Presenter Introductions

Aimee Carbone Kattie Hogan

Degrees in Special Education-Cognitive Impairments Learning Disabilities and Reading

Specialist

Degrees in English, Special Education-Learning Disabilities, and Reading

Current Placement: 6th through 8th grade, primarily in language arts co-taught classes

and Reading Intervention

Current Placement: Primarily Resource Room and a co-taught math class

Current Challenges: Students lack vocabulary and skills to interact appropriately

with peers

Current Challenges: Students’ difficulties with language-based activities makes reading and

writing tasks slow-paced and often painful

Advisory Overview

• About 30 minutes long-5 days a week

• Both classes are filled with about 15 special education students (variety of impairments including: E.I., L.D, C.I.)

• Time for reviewing school expectations/events, finishing homework, and community building

• A balancing act of supporting academic and social needs

What We Believe About Education

•“Education {should} arouse curiosity, strengthen initiative, and set up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future” (Dewey, 1938, p. 28)

•“Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices hear. A good teacher is one who can listen to the voices before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence” (Palmer, 1998, p. 46)

•“It is in speaking their word that people, by naming their world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings” (Freire, 1970, pg. 69).

Sounds great, but I have to teach Common Core!

I don’t I have time for creativity and insightful independent thinking when

my effectiveness is judged on students’ performance on

standardized tests.

Solution: Link Standards with Team-Building Activities

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1.C Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring their discussion back to the topic as needed

Have You Ever?

Ice Breaker Questions

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

Individual/Community

Text: The Giver

Activity: Marshmallow Tower

Discussion Question: What is the significance of an individual in a community?

TRY IT OUT!

MARSHMALLOW ACTIVITY REFLECTIONS

MARSHMALLOW ACTIVITY REFLECTIONS

MARSHMALLOW ACTIVITY REFLECTIONS

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

Perseverance

Text: Dear Mr. Faulker, Article on Liz Murray From Homeless to Harvard

Activity: See Packet

Discussion Question: How do you show perseverance in your own life?

Student Samples: Attacking the Challenge Images

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Student Samples: Perseverance

“Perseverance is when you get scared that you can’t do it”-Emily

“Perseverance is brave and not scary”-Aaron

Perseverance is when you keep trying even if it was hard. Never give up.-Elizabeth

Student Samples: Perseverance

BALLCombining Perseverance and

CommunityToss the ball without dropping it to all of the members in the community.

Count the number of times you catch it.

“Everyone go easy. Toss it to the

person you are close by.” –

Strategies and other language

emerges as students negotiate

a task with one another.

BALLCommon Core Connection

“CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1.BFollow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed

BALL IS A BUILDING BLOCK: STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION, AND SHARING IDEAS AS THEY WORK ON MEETING A

SPECIFIC GOAL.

TRY IT OUT!

SAVE SAMMY!The boat has capsized and Sammy’s life preserver is trapped inside the boat. He doesn’t know how long he can hang on to the boat. Help save him.

Connection to Common Core:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.3

Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.

SAVE SAMMY!

SAVE SAMMY!

Walk Away-How Can You Transform Your Classroom Instruction?