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UCLA Center X - FremontUCLA Center X - FremontScience & Literacy Science & Literacy
PartnershipPartnership
A partnership that works to increase student success
Change Teacher PedagogyChange Teacher Pedagogy
Move from teacher-directed to student-centered classrooms
Work to change teachers’ beliefs about their students’ abilities
Improve Content LiteracyImprove Content Literacy
Teachers learn and practice new tools
Assist teachers in integrating literacy techniques into content instruction
Improve Content LiteracyImprove Content Literacy
Implement Research-based strategiesReading Apprenticeship
Cornell Notes, Double-entry notebooks
Rigorous Mathematical & Scientific Thinking
Instrumental Enrichment
Implemented StrategiesImplemented Strategies
Standards-based PlanningStandards-based PlanningUnderstand what the standards really askAnalyze standards for levels of rigorCreate scaffolded key activitiesDevelop standards-based culminating tasksAnalyze student workUse data to inform instruction
Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development
Full-day monthly PDPresent & practice new literacy strategiesObserve other teachers, debriefTeachers share new key
activitiesAnalyze student workContinue to plan units
Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development
Buy-back DaysSpecial Trainings
Inter-disciplinary unit-building
Common Planning Time PD’s
Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development
Create Ways to CollaborateCreate Ways to Collaborate
Work with administrators to create time for teachers to work together
Foster peer-to-peer mentoring
Create Ways to CollaborateCreate Ways to Collaborate
Monthly Saturday PD’s
Weekly after- school Planning
Coaching in the ClassroomCoaching in the Classroom
Facilitate small group activities
Model high-level questioning
Model appropriate class management
Individualized CoachingIndividualized Coaching
Observe & debrief teacher practice
Planning and reflective conversations to foster professional growth
Work with SLC’sWork with SLC’s
Present and model new strategies
Facilitate conversations
Assist in designing inter-disciplinary units
Cognitive coaching with SLC leaders
Build Teacher CapacityBuild Teacher Capacity
Increase teacher retention by creating a supportive and dynamic environment
Develop leadership roles for teachers
Foster deepened content knowledge
Build Teacher CapacityBuild Teacher Capacity
Assisting in planning and co-teaching content-based fieldtrips
Supporting teachers attendance at:Professional Conferences
AP Institutes
Science Successes: 2003-2006
Teacher Retention: 88% have chosen to stay at FremontCST: ICS & Physics students have tripled scores in 3 yearsLiteracy strategies: 85% of teachers use them consistentlyDouble-entry notebooks and Cornell notes: 81% of students use them to document and reflect on their workInstrumental Enrichment and/or RMST: 17 teachers have been trained to increase cognitive skills in studentsReading Apprenticeship: 3 teachers trained & implementingICS training: 26 teachers attended all 8 days“Thinking Maps” training: 100% attendanceAVID Summer Institutes: 8 teachers attendedAP Summer Institutes: 24 teachers attended AP science classes & students: tripled numbers - our first 4’s and 5’s in 2005Leadership roles: 8 teachers have key roles in SLC’s
Create a Love of Learning!Create a Love of Learning!