Review

1. Review 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

2. 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 Q+ Love abstract reasoning, games and puzzles N+ Love drawing, visual and mechanical arts Develop a set of rules for doing… Develop a movie script that… Draw a poster that… Write a different ending to… Develop a game that… Develop a map that…

3. 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

4. “Reason I work hard is because my teacher encourages me” Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University & Minority Student Achievement Network

5. 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

6. 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”

7. Emotional Engagement“The reason I work hard is because my teacher demands it” Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University & Minority Student Achievement Network

8. The Culture of Achievement 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. Black/Hispanic Popularity White Popularity Note: A grade of 1.0=D; 4.0=A Source: Fryer, R. G. (Winter 2006).Education Next. Calculations from National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data

9. What HS Dropouts Can Teach Us Civic Enterprises-Gates Foundation 2006

10. Grading Joe Joe’s Grades 80 80 Missing What’s his final Grade? 70 90 A 80 80 B 90 70 C Missing 60 D Missing 90 100

11. Billy One Super-Duper Power Standard *Know Who’s Boss Know Your letters!

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

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16. 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?

17. 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.

18. Too Many Students That Go To College Do Not Finish 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.

19. Time Matters Source: Reeves, D. B. (2006). High Impact Learning. Corwin Press.

20. An Elementary Schedule 9:10-11:45 Literacy 11:45-12:45 Lunch 12:45-1:05 SSR 1:05-1:40 Specials 1:40-3:30 Math

21. 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.

22. Mike White (513) 623-9470 www.white_ecs@fuse.net Mike White (513) 623-9470 www.white_ecs@fuse.net