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UCLA Center X - Fremont Science & Literacy Partnership

UCLA Center X - Fremont Science & Literacy Partnership. A partnership that works to increase student success. Change Teacher Pedagogy. Move from teacher-directed to student-centered classrooms Work to change teachers’ beliefs about their students’ abilities. Improve Content Literacy.

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UCLA Center X - Fremont Science & Literacy Partnership

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  1. UCLA Center X - FremontScience & Literacy Partnership A partnership that works to increase student success

  2. Change Teacher Pedagogy • Move from teacher-directed to student-centered classrooms • Work to change teachers’ beliefs about their students’ abilities

  3. Improve Content Literacy • Teachers learn and practice new tools • Assist teachers in integrating literacy techniques into content instruction

  4. Improve Content Literacy • Implement Research-based strategies • Reading Apprenticeship • Cornell Notes, Double-entry notebooks • Rigorous Mathematical & Scientific Thinking • Instrumental Enrichment

  5. Implemented Strategies

  6. Standards-based Planning • Understand what the standards really ask • Analyze standards for levels of rigor • Create scaffolded key activities • Develop standards-based culminating tasks • Analyze student work • Use data to inform instruction

  7. Professional Development • Full-day monthly PD • Present & practice new literacy strategies • Observe other teachers, debrief • Teachers share new key activities • Analyze student work • Continue to plan units

  8. Professional Development • Buy-back Days • Special Trainings • Inter-disciplinary unit-building

  9. Professional Development • Common Planning Time PD’s

  10. Create Ways to Collaborate • Work with administrators to create time for teachers to work together • Foster peer-to-peer mentoring

  11. Create Ways to Collaborate • Monthly Saturday PD’s • Weekly after- school Planning

  12. Coaching in the Classroom • Facilitate small group activities • Model high-level questioning • Model appropriate class management

  13. Individualized Coaching • Observe & debrief teacher practice • Planning and reflective conversations to foster professional growth

  14. Work with SLC’s • Present and model new strategies • Facilitate conversations • Assist in designing inter-disciplinary units • Cognitive coaching with SLC leaders

  15. Build Teacher Capacity • Increase teacher retention by creating a supportive and dynamic environment • Develop leadership roles for teachers • Foster deepened content knowledge

  16. Build Teacher Capacity • Assisting in planning and co-teaching content-based fieldtrips • Supporting teachers attendance at: • Professional Conferences • AP Institutes

  17. Science Successes: 2003-2006 • Teacher Retention: 88% have chosen to stay at Fremont • CST: ICS & Physics students have tripled scores in 3 years • Literacy strategies: 85% of teachers use them consistently • Double-entry notebooks and Cornell notes: 81% of students use them to document and reflect on their work • Instrumental Enrichment and/or RMST: 17 teachers have been trained to increase cognitive skills in students • Reading Apprenticeship: 3 teachers trained & implementing • ICS training: 26 teachers attended all 8 days • “Thinking Maps” training: 100% attendance • AVID Summer Institutes: 8 teachers attended • AP Summer Institutes: 24 teachers attended • AP science classes & students: tripled numbers - our first 4’s and 5’s in 2005 • Leadership roles: 8 teachers have key roles in SLC’s

  18. Create a Love of Learning!

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