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Thurgood Marshall College FundTeacher Quality & Retention Program

CCSS Quarterly Training #1October 7th 2015

Facilitators: Moseka Medlock & Hallie Hundemer-Booth

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•Transforming the Classroom•What does A Common Core Classroom Look Like•When lesson planning ask yourself…•How does CCSS fit with PE Classes?•Teaching THE standards not TO the standards..•Assessment question help!

Agenda

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• Article on “Student Driven Common Core Classrooms”

• Pre-read the article and determine what you could “put in place” in your classroom or what do you use within this list that works well.

How to take the traditional classroom and transform into

CCSS

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• Does your classroom include the following three opportunities:3 ELA/Literacy Shifts• Building knowledge through content

rich information text• Reading and writing grounded

evidence from text• Regular practice with complex text

and it’s academic vocabulary

What does a CCSS classroom look like?

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• What content rich readings am I asking the students to read during the instructional process?

• What evidence are the students using when discussing the topic at hand?

• Are there opportunities built into the lesson that allow students to show and practice their use of vocabulary and understanding?

• http://education.ky.gov/curriculum/standards/teachtools/Pages/Characteristics-of-Highly-Effective-Teaching-and-Learning-

(CHETL).aspx

When lesson planning ask yourself:

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When lesson planning ask yourself:

Am I planning to allow my students time to:ListenSpeak Read

Have I developed 3-5 scaffolded questions (in advance) on the given

topics within the class?

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Cognitive Rigor Matrix

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CCSS tool that allows you to walk through the lesson to align the

experiences to that of CCSS classroom:

http://achievethecore.org/lesson-planning-tool/

Instructional Planning Guide

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Instructional Practice Guide

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• Utilizes resources such as:–http://www.sparkpe.org/wp-

content/uploads/4-13-Common-Core-K-5-Alignments-to-Literacy.pdf (SPARK)

–http://www.k12.wa.us/HealthFitness/CBAs/CCSS/Grade9-10HF-CCSS-Connections.pdf

How do you align CCSS  with PE  courses which require physical activities  more so

than that of writing or reading?

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• In education, the term standards-based refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating understanding or mastery of the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.

Should teachers set goals to reach the standards or should we be attempting to teach the

standard? 

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• http://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/

• http://www.smarterbalanced.org/sample-items-and-performance-tasks/

Assesment/Test Items

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• https://testing.byu.edu/handbooks/14%20Rules%20for%20Writing%20Multiple-Choice%20Questions.pdf

Test Item Creation

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Questions, comments and “real world discussions”

Wrap Up