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New Work Training

April 15, 2015

Things to remember

April 22 – STEPPApril 29 – School

Based RTIMay 6 - Grade

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Agenda/Goals

C&I General InfoExplore Domain

3 - Instruction

15-16 Secondary Rotation

PH Lit Middle School

• Blue or Red books depending on the site•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.

High SchoolPH Lit

• Some sites will be using the Distance class taught by Peggy Bruno

• Teacher materials already sent to sites

• Student textbooks will be arriving late spring or just before school starts

• Save the PH Lit books from the last two years!• Orange & Purple

Math K-5 and 6-8 My Math/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

Houghton Mifflin K-5 and 6-8Science Fusion

•Pending approval •New Consumable books each year• On Line resources

McGraw HillHigh School Science

• Pending approval•Teacher Supplemental Materials• Hardcover• Not Consumable

Secondary Social Studies

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

• 1 Sem of AK History, 1 Sem of US Gov’t • DO will set the schedule• Materials:– US Gov’t – Textbook– AK History – Websites

• http://www.akhistorycourse.org/• http://akstudies.akhf.org/

All teachers will pilot ONE SLO next year.

We will be using MAP and PMAP scores

“Interval of Instruction” will be Fall MAP to Spring MAP

DO will pre-fill several of the boxes.

SLO’s for 2015-16

It will NOT be part of your 2015-16 evaluation

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.

Video Comparison of Engagement vs. On-Task

Two videos – one is definitely better than the other.

Try to run it on only one laptop to save bandwidth

While watching, talk with your group and identify when kids are engaged and when they are on task.

Focus on the students rather than the teachers.

Each video will have a google doc that goes with it.

Video number 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxLFTvodBBI

Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Classroom Observation

It’s 13 minutes long Start at 5:00 mark and end at 11:00 mark

She has some interesting procedures that some of you will like and some of you won’t.

Video number 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW0XsQ4X28s

iTC Publications : Bad Lesson Example (Weather)

It’s 6 minutes long Watch the whole thing

It’s obviously staged, but still not uncommon

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

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