ITS ALL ABOUT THE SECOND QUESTION RELATIONSHIPS RIGOR

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE SECOND QUESTION: RELATIONSHIPS + RIGOR + RELEVANCE = RESULTS Essential Vocabulary Essential Skills LEARNING TARGET Essential “Sometimes the questions are complex but the answers are simple. ” Knowledge ~Dr. Seuss HIGH EXPECTATIONS Prepared for the HCPS Middle School Collaborative Learning Team Members of HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D. , flexiblecreativity. com, (twitter: @drdanmulligan) August 2015

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Think Pad is a resource designed to: • provide evidence of understanding and participation during student-to student dialogue • facilitate student reflection on their thinking

4 – second partner Find a friend from another schools and grade-level. Say ‘hello’. Find 2 comfortable seats and relax. *Please bring your handout and a pen(cil)!

THE HOW

Last year’s successful learning strategies CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING SETTING OBJECTIVES AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK Unpacking the Standard Work collaboratively (e. g. , construct viable arguments, critique, agree) to identify key words that capture the essential elements of strategies to assist all students to be successful used last year with fidelity. Enjoy working with your new best friend.

A. CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING ADDITIONAL SAMPLE RESOURCES pages 12 - 13

A. CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR LEARNING FOSTERING COLLABORATION WITH TECHNOLOGY

Research on Imagery as Elaboration Students who used imagery to learn vocabulary, on average, performed # of studies 6 37 percentile pts. higher than… …students who kept repeating definitions. 4 21 percentile pts. higher than… …students who were using the terms in a sentence.

Organizing Theme: Famous Americans of the 20 th Century K C A ! B Y A W D O S R R H T HU T Things someone would say… Mohammad Ali 200 POINTS Aretha Franklin Bill Clinton 100 POINTS Elvis Mickey Mouse Madonna 50 POINTS

Organizing Theme: EDUCATIONAL STAKEHOLDER EDITION Things someone would say… page 17 Cafeteria Worker 200 POINTS Parent Student 100 POINTS Principal Superintendent Teacher 50 POINTS

Geometry ISOSCELES TRAPEZOID 200 POINTS CONGRUENT 100 POINTS PLANE FIGURE 50 POINTS VOLUME 50 POINTS CYLINDER 100 POINTS TYPES of ANGLES 50 POINTS

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WHERE ARE WE?

PRELIMINARY 2015 SOL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA BY DIVISION - SPRING 2015 SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITIES

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THE WHAT

G o o d I n s tr u c ti o n (Keep it Simple…Keep it Real) “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far. ” ~Ron Edmonds

Non-negotiables Problem Solving Strategy Vocabulary (essential) Talk Time Showing your thinking Note-taking (Table of Contents, Glossary, highlighter) Curriculum Framework

HELPING STUDENTS DEVELOP UNDERSTANDING Assessing for Conceptual Understanding (These are…These are not) Suggestion from Research: ü Open (begin) with the rigor… ü …but rather than rigor…scaffold the experience for students to foster rigor with nurturing…

page 8 If you want a learner to truly understand own essential knowledge, expand your exploration from ‘what it is’ to also ‘what it is NOT’.

How can you use the Where do I belong? structure to support your role as teacher/administrator? ? ? A = bh 4 right angles Right Triangle 3 sides 1 right angle 4 sides Opposite sides equal One side is the longest Rectangle A = ½ bh

OPEN TASK AND CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE page 48

WHAT’S MY RULE? Theme: Sports YES No Strike Stick Split Puck Pin Hoop Gutter Goal Rule: Bowling Terms

WHAT’S MY RULE? Theme: Geometry YES No Triangle Cube Rectangle Pyramid Square Pentagon Quadrilateral Octagon Rule: Plane figures with less than 5 sides.

Kinds of Evidence – Continuum of Evidence Informal Check for Understanding

Name a value for the slope of a line. State and graph a line that is perpendicular to the line. Name a value for the y Describe in words, then -intercept of the line. graph the line.

page 14 Name a fraction in simplest form. Explain how you know it is simplest form. Convert the new fraction to a decimal. Show the location of the original fractions and the decimal on a number line. Explain how this picture visually supports your answer to the sum. Name a second fraction Calculate the fraction that represents the sum of the in simplest form. two fractions. Is this new Explain how you know fraction in simplest form? If this fraction is in not, convert it to simplest form.

Rigor… with Nurturing!

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Advanced Organizers Use Visuals Advanced organizers help students organize the information and retain 5 times more of the information.

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