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 K – 2 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

Framework for Instructional Planning Page 8 Mc. REL, 2012 1. Create an Environment for Learning – Helping students know what is expected of them, providing students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills 2. Helping Students Develop Understanding – Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge – Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought 3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge – Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.

Google Maps for Results

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)!

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

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

Framework for Instructional Planning Page 8 Mc. REL, 2012 1. Create an Environment for Learning – Helping students know what is expected of them, providing students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills 2. Helping Students Develop Understanding – Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge – Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought 3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge – Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts.

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’.

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! W A O D R S H E T U T Things someone would say… Mohammad Ali 200 POINTS Aretha Franklin Bill Clinton 100 POINTS Elvis Mickey Mouse Madonna 50 POINTS

Matter Solid 200 POINTS Line of Symmetry 100 POINTS Solid Shapes 1 POINTS Pattern 100 POINTS Third from Right 50 POINTS Rotation 50 POINTS

Organizing Theme: Teaching/Learning Strategies Relationships 200 POINTS Formative Relevance Assessment 100 POINTS Critical Thinking Collaboration Rigor 50 POINTS

Grade 4 Math Things that are parallel 200 POINTS area 100 POINTS perimeter 100 POINTS Types of graphs Ways to make. 25 50 POINTS Types of angles 50 POINTS

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

VENN DIAGRAMS red thick small

DOK 2: Basic Skills and Concepts Animals Plants

VENN DIAGRAMS Fiction Nonfiction

Motor Mouth Things associated with MATTER SCHOOL PLANTS Books Roots Solid Report Stems Liquid Cards Photosynthesis Teachers Gas School Mixtures Flowers Bus Cafeteria Solutions Leaves Pencils Water Atoms Molecules Erasers Seeds

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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

Kinds of Evidence – Continuum of Evidence Informal Check for Understanding

Name a noun. Form a sentence. Name a verb. Name an adjective

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