SAS What is a coach to do? Classrooms for the Future/21st Century Teaching and Learning with Technology, Pennsylvania Department of Education

SAS

What is a coach to do?

Classrooms for the Future/21st Century Teaching and Learning with Technology, Pennsylvania Department of Education

Our focus remains unchanged.


SAS brings it all together.



Essential Questions

• Questions connected to the SAS framework and are specifically linked to the Big Ideas. They should frame student inquiry, promote critical thinking, and assist in learning transfer.


Essential Question for Today

• What is an Instructional Technology Coach’s role in SAS?


Big Ideas

• Declarative statements that describe concepts that transcend grade levels. Big Ideas are essential to provide focus on specific content for all students.


Big Ideas for SAS• The Standards Aligned System is a comprehensive approach

to support student achievement across the Commonwealth.• Pennsylvania Standards describe what students should know

and be able to do; they increase in complexity and sophistication as students progress through school.

• Fair Assessment is a process used by teachers and students before, during, and after instruction to provide feedback and adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve student achievement.

• The Curriculum Framework specifies what is to be taught for each subject in the curriculum.


Big Ideas for SAS• Aligned instruction comprises the following activities:

– Teaching topics that are aligned with the standards.– Ensuring the right level of challenge.– Focusing teaching based on the learning needs of each student.– Implementing instructional strategies to increase student achievement.

• Materials and resources include Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania standards in curriculum frameworks for the four major content areas (mathematics, science, social studies, reading-writing-speaking-listening).

• The purpose of interventions is to ensure students are provided with the standards based supports they need to meet/exceed grade level standards.


Concepts

• Describe what students should know (key knowledge) as a result of this instruction specific to grade level.


Concept for Today

• Coaches will understand how their role as Mentor, Curriculum Specialist and Instructional Specialist goes hand-in-hand with SAS.







Competencies

• Describe what students should be able to do, key skills, as a result of this instruction, specific to grade level.


Competencies for Today• Coaches will navigate the SAS.• Coaches will be able to demonstrate a complete example of the

interconnectedness of the SAS to teachers. (6th grade example)• Coaches will use the SAS Curriculum Framework vocabulary

when working with teachers.• Coaches will identify the elements of coaching and coaching

activities that are part of their role of Curriculum Specialist and Instructional Specialist.

• Coaches will identify “SAS” questions they can ask during co-planning, debriefing and feedback after modeling, co-teaching, and View/Review.


Follow the yellow brick roadhttp://www.pdesas.org/

1. Help/Training Materials2. SAS Institute Files/Grade 6 Sample PathwayOR• You teach geometry and you want to find an interactive

resource on triangle congruence to support your lesson. The assessment anchor you are focusing on for this lesson is G.2.1 or Congruence, Similarity and Proofs. Select the appropriate tab to first find the assessment anchor (G.2.1). Then select the appropriate material and resource tab to find your interactive resource. Select the virtual manipulative to support your lesson.


How you can you weave SAS into your instructional

coaching?


How you can you weave SAS into your instructional

coaching?• Coaching Resources to Re-visit

• Range of Use• Roles of Coaching• Levels of Intensity• Elements of Coaching• Formative Assessment (webinar on Friday)


Identify SAS questions you can ask during co-planning and during debriefing and feedback.


Questions to Ask• How would you seamlessly integrate the technology? How

would you manage its use?• How would you align it to standards?• How does it fit within the Curriculum Framework of SAS?• How could it be used as an Intervention for students to enrich,

engage, and connect?• How does it support research-based Instructional strategies?• How does it raise the level of teaching and learning? Where

does its use fit into the Range of Use Chart? • How could it be used for Formative Assessment?• How can you share these materials and resources?


More Questions to Ask

• Which Big Idea(s) are you addressing?• What is the Essential Question(s)?• What are the concepts that the students

should understand?• What are the competencies that students

should be able to do?


Another Question• What are the WHERETO’s?

• W – Ensure that students understand WHERE the unit is headed, and WHY.




• H – HOOK students in the beginning and HOLD their attention throughout.





• E – EQUIP students with necessary experiences, tools, knowledge, and know-how to meet performance goals. (Explore, Experience, Enable, Equip)






• R – Provide students with numerous opportunities to RETHINK big ideas, REFLECT on progress, and REVISE their work.







• E – Build in opportunities for students to EVALUATE progress and self-assess.







• E – Build in opportunities for students to EVALUATE progress and self-assess.

• T – Be TAILORED to reflect individual talents, interests, styles, and needs.



• W – Ensure that students understand WHERE the unit is headed, and WHY.• H – HOOK students in the beginning and HOLD their attention throughout.• E – EQUIP students with necessary experiences, tools, knowledge, and

know-how to meet performance goals. (Explore, Experience, Enable, Equip)• R – Provide students with numerous opportunities to RETHINK big ideas,

REFLECT on progress, and REVISE their work.• E – Build in opportunities for students to EVALUATE progress and self-

assess.• T – Be TAILORED to reflect individual talents, interests, styles, and needs.• O – Be ORGANIZED to optimize deep understanding as opposed to

superficial


The Key

• Your 21st Century Teaching and Learning team– Principal(s)– Instructional Coaches

(math, literacy, technology)– Curriculum Director– Technology Director


http://pasas.wikispaces.com/

• Wiki used at the Institute• Many resources for each circle of SAS


• STEP 1: Begin by setting up a meeting with your District Curriculum Director and/or Building Principal. Plan for about an hour-long meeting.

Nine Steps



• STEP 2: Begin by finding out what this administrator already understands and knows about SAS. If necessary, give a big picture overview of SAS. You may need to clarify misunderstandings.

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• STEP 3: Review related district/school-wide Professional Development initiatives: Understanding By Design, Authentic Instruction through Inquiry-Based Learning and/or Project-Based Learning, Higher Order Thinking Skills

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• STEP 4: Review parts of the Instruction circle that may need emphasis, given Step 3. Conclude the meeting by setting up a follow-up meeting for one hour. Ask the administrator if there is anyone else to invite to the next meeting.

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• STEP 5: Demonstrate the 6th Grade Math Example used at the Institute.

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• STEP 5: Demonstrate the 6th Grade Math Example used at the Institute.

• STEP 6: Get into more detail about each circle with the following talking points:

Nine Steps


Nine Steps

• STEP 7: Discuss how you can weave SAS into your instructional coaching.


Nine Steps• STEP 7: Discuss how you can weave SAS into your

instructional coaching. • STEP 8: Introduce the administrator to the SAS Action

Plan.• http://pasas.wikispaces.com/Files


Nine Steps• STEP 7: Discuss how you can weave SAS into your

instructional coaching. • STEP 8: Introduce the administrator to the SAS Action

Plan.• http://pasas.wikispaces.com/Files

• STEP 9: Ask how you can be of assistance with the Action Plan.


21st Century Teaching and Learning


21st Century Teaching and Learning


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SAS What is a coach to do? Classrooms for the Future/21st Century Teaching and Learning with Technology, Pennsylvania Department of Education