Leadership Pathway Adaptations for Struggling Learners High School

Leadership Pathway: Adaptations for Struggling Learners High School February 2016

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL At a Glance Day Ideas Wednesday 8: 30 -4: 00 The Foundation Components of a Comprehensive Literacy Program Thursday 8: 30 -4: 00 Building Knowledge and Vocabulary The Juicy Language of Text Organizational Systems and Structures Friday 8: 30 -4: 00 Focus, Coherence and Rigor Saturday 8: 30 -2: 30 Observing the Standards and Shifts Adaptations for Struggling Learners L E A R N I N G C O N T E N T

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Adaptation Session Objectives: • Participants will be able to assess a curriculum for focus and use across grade coherence to guide adaptation • Participants will be able to adapt a curriculum map for students below grade level • Participants will be able to adjust critical systems and structures to ensure standardsbased support is occurring for struggling learners Agenda: 1. Opening 1. Naming the Challenge 1. Curriculum Map Scavenger Hunt 2. Curriculum Map Adaptation 3. Summary and Reflection 4. Survey

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Naming the Challenge What percentage of your students are not at grade level in mathematics?

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Avoiding the “Blanket Review”

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Percentage of 8 th Grade Math Lessons That Were Entirely Reviewed, By Country (1999)

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL From the Appendix to the Publishers’ Criteria “The natural distribution of prior knowledge in classrooms should not prompt abandoning instruction in grade level content, but should prompt explicit attention to connecting grade level content to content from prior learning. To do this, instruction should reflect the progressions on which the CCSSM are built…Much unfinished learning from earlier grades can be managed best inside grade level work when the progressions are used to understand student thinking. ”

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Curriculum Map Scavenger Hunt You’ll look at: • The curriculum map for the year • Titles of each module • The standards associated with each module

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Curriculum Map Scavenger Hunt 1. How many modules focus on major work? 2. How many days of instruction is this? 3. What percent of the instructional year is this? 4. Name all modules that include Major work and Supporting content together. 5. Name all modules that emphasize Additional content.

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Adaptation Process: Scope and Sequence Use the progressions to add prerequisite standards from prior grades to all units. + X. 1, Y. 2 + X. 1, Z. 5 + Z. 2 + X. 3 + X. 1, Z. 5 + X. 1, Y. 5 + X. 4, Y. 5, Z. 6 X = Grade Below Y = 2 Grades Below Z = 3 Grades Below Consider expanding focus on major content where necessary. Major Content

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Adaptation Process: Lessons The prerequisite standards we associate with each unit allow us to adapt lessons and additional lessons. Adapt lessons to include prerequisite content in the context of grade-level objectives. Consider adding additional lessons that address prerequisite content where necessary and appropriate. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL A Pivotal Moment for Tenth Graders It is two weeks before school starts, and you are helping the math department as they plan for implementing Geometry Module 1 in A Story of Functions. Historically, the data show that 10 th graders at this school do not enter Geometry ready for the course. Specifically, students are not yet proficient with geometric transformations. Additionally, while they know formulas, they struggle to solve real-world application problems. What do you and the team need to do to adapt this module so these children catch up? 1. Identify the prerequisite standards you'd need to adapt this module. 2. Identify adaptations for the year-long scope and sequence. 3. Identify adaptations for the sequence of lessons within the module.

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL Feedback Please fill out the survey located here: www. standardsinstitutes. org -Click “February Institute” on the top right -Click “Details” on the center of the page

ADAPTATIONS FOR STRUGGLING LEARNERS HIGH SCHOOL References Slide Source 6 https: //nces. ed. gov/pubs 2003/timssvideo/3 A. asp? Nav=3 7 http: //achievethecore. org/page/686/publishers-criteria 8 -13 https: //www. engageny. org/resource/high-school-geometry https: //www. engageny. org/resource/geometry-module-1

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