nihs: early release professional development 9.16.15
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NIHS: EARLY RELEASE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
9.16.15
Today’s focus activity (5 minutes): 1) go to this padlet (or from Natalie Williams’s ERPD
webpage link), 2) post your response to the essential question, and3) read and reflect on the posts of others.
This year, WE PROMISE that all your district-planned ERPD content will align to these 3 simple concepts:
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPSLESSON DESIGN
KNOWING YOUR CONTENT
ERPD CONTENT FOR 2015-16:
CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES HAS LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK.Our goals for your ERPD experience are simple: we want the professional development you receive to be efficient, personalized and practical. Our pledge to you is that we will only bring you information that has evidence to “back it up.”
➜EFFICIENT: We’re expecting you to incorporate 3 simple things each day.
➜PERSONALIZED: You choose how you’ll do the 3 things each day from the resources your coaches will provide. You’ll reflect during our October ERPD to determine what’s next.
➜PRACTICAL: These 3 simple things are easy and require no special training.
Let’s get started!
Stand at the door. Shake hands. Fist bump.
Say, “Hello, John. I’m glad you’re here today!”
You decide how.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS =
Welcome students by name into the
classroom.
Welcoming students is important for
students’ academic achievement.
Why?
“Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer and scientist
“Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”
Rita Pierson, educator TED Talks speaker
Write it on the board. Post it on your webpage.
Essential Question? Solve this problem? Sample exam
practice? You decide how.
Have a STANDARDS-ALIGNED BELL RINGER or warm-up activity posted and ready for the first few minutes of class.
Having a #bellringer requires planning
and routines.
What do those routines look like?
“Start your class with effective start-up routines. Start the day or period with an organized routine that includes bell work
and other procedures that get the students ready for class. The first few minutes of every class are prime time, so what you do in those first few minutes determines how on-task your students will be for the rest
of the period.” Harry and Rosemary Wong,
Effective Teaching excerpt
Activities are fun, but doing a project only helps if it’s aligned to a learning
standard.Choose activities with intention.
Plan with the end in mind.
Identify student learning
objectives FIRST.
Kids need to know what they’re going to learn, why they need to learn
it, and how they’ll show they’ve learned it.
How can you communicate this
information to students?
“Simply tell students what they will be learning before the lesson begins and you can raise
student achievement as much as 27 percent.”
from the research of John Hattie, scientist and educator
Focus on these 3 things
Have a bell ringer ready before class
starts
Select learning
goals FIRST, then select
aligned activities
Welcome students by name into
the classroom
OUR FOCUS IS EASY
first: welcome
second: bell ringer
last: aligned activities
NOW WHAT?
WORK WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES (PLC)
➜ Dig into your Curriculum Guides and shared resources.
➜ Work together to create or identify easy bell ringer activities for your content.
➜ Work together to identify your current learning objective. Then plan standards-aligned activities for supporting your students’ mastery of that learning objective. Finally, PDSA with your students frequently.
