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Are You an Orange? Are Your Students Number People or Letter People?
Instruction and Assessment shouldn’t be “One Size fits all”
Respectful of Students’ Interests and Strenghts
Menus not mandates
Equitable Design in Instruction and Assessment
CogAT Tic-Tac-Toe as a design tool
V+Love to talk and write about what they are
learning
Develop a movie script that…
Write a different ending to…
Q+Love abstract
reasoning, games and puzzles
Develop a set of rules for doing…
Develop a game that…
N+Love drawing, visual and mechanical arts
Draw a poster that…
Develop a map that…
Shift to Activities That Engage Students
“the most immediate and pressing issue for students and teachers is not low achievement but student disengagement” Alfie Kohn in The Schools Our Children Deserve
“Reason I work hard is because my teacher encourages me”
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Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University & Minority Student Achievement Network
Academic Engagement
Nobody is “Hooked on Phonics”What Fraction is larger 4/11 or 5/13? The Con----Children who are not
proficient must go back to covering the basics before they attempt the fancy stuff
Graduate school—they saved all the good stuff till then
Robert Marzano in The Art and Science of Teaching says…..
“the quality of relationships teachers have with students is the keystone of effective management and perhaps even the entirety of teaching”
Emotional Engagement“The reason I work hard is because
my teacher demands it”
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Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University & Minority Student Achievement Network
The Culture of Achievement
Source: Fryer, R. G. (Winter 2006). Education Next. Calculations from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data
The popularity of white students increases as their grades increase. For black and Hispanic students, there is a drop off in popularity for those with higher GPAs.
Popularity and Grades
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Note: A grade of 1.0=D; 4.0=A
Black/Hispanic Popularity
White Popularity
What HS Dropouts Can Teach Us
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recognized that aHS diploma wasvital to theirsuccess
would have workedharder if someonecared
would have stayedin school if classeswere interesting
Civic Enterprises-Gates Foundation 2006
Grading Joe Joe’s Grades8080Missing What’s his final Grade?70 90 A80 80 B90 70 CMissing 60 DMissing90100
Billy
One Super-Duper Power Standard
*Know Who’s Boss
Know Your letters!
Illiteracy is the “Elephant in the Classroom”
“Looking for Q’s” USA Today reports 1 in 5 HS graduates can’t
read their diploma
NAEP results 8.7 Million students below grade level in reading
Coalition for Juvenile Justice reports 1/3 of offenders (median age 15) read below 4th grade
Literacy
50 percent of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level.
20 percent of Americans are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level.
Approximately 50 percent of Americans read so poorly that they are unable to perform simple tasks such as balancing a checkbook and reading prescription drug labels.
Reading Levels Defined And Demonstrated
Independent reading level 90% – Pupil can read with ease and without the help or guidance of a teacher, They can answer four or five correct answers (out of five test questions) and can read with rhythm, with a conversational tone, and can interpret punctuation correctly.
Instructional reading level 80-90% – Pupil can profit from instruction. They answer three out of five test questions correctly.
Frustrated reading level< 80% – Pupil gets two or below out of five test questions. They show symptoms or behavior of withdrawing from reading situations and commit multiple types of errors in oral reading.
Reading Passage The Blimbat (80%) My tmloydn and I were standing in line to buy
xtlofms for the Blimbat. Finally, there was only one puvdrm between us and the xtlofm tmnutzq. This puvdrm made a big ampler on me. There were eight utzs all probably ord the age of 12. You could tell tures did not have a lot of willen. Their pard weer not yanker, but tures were clean. The utzs were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two zors their potent holding zibits. Tures were telly temering about the plums, fonts, and other yoks tures would wint that noster.
Reading Test RETELL: Tell me everything you remember that you
just read. Comprehension Questions: What is the setting? Who was excited? Why were they excited? What impressed the narrator of the story? What do you think is the age of the narrator?
Why?
Reading Passage The Circus (97%) My tmloydn and I were standing in line to buy tickets
for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight kids, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they did not have a lot of money. Their pard were not yanker, but they were clean. The kids were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, animals, and other acts they would see that night.
Too Many Students That Go To College Do
Not Finish
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Source: U.S. DOE, NCES, 1995-96 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, Second Follow-Up (BPS: 96/01) in U.S. DOE, NCES, Descriptive Summary of 1995-96 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Six Years Later. Table 7-6 on page 163.
Time Matters
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Source: Reeves, D. B. (2006). High Impact Learning. Corwin Press.
An Elementary Schedule
9:10-11:45 Literacy11:45-12:45 Lunch12:45-1:05 SSR1:05-1:40 Specials1:40-3:30 Math
High School Schedule English*Science 1 Social Studies 1 Math*Elective 1--- Applied Literacy Elective 2
*grades 9 and 10 electives for Applied Literacy (USA Today). Have Academic 1 science for freshman and Academic 2 science for sophomores.
