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Supporting Teachers as They Implement LDC

Supporting Teachers as They Implement LDC. St. Bernard Parish Public Schools Margaux Dubuar High School Instructional Coach Monica Knauer Middle School Instructional Coach. Whip-Around. What We’ll Cover Today. Activity : r eading and w riting

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Supporting Teachers as They Implement LDC

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  1. Supporting Teachers as They Implement LDC St. Bernard Parish Public Schools MargauxDubuarHigh School Instructional Coach Monica KnauerMiddle School Instructional Coach

  2. Whip-Around

  3. What We’ll Cover Today • Activity: reading and writing • Overview of Common Core Literacy Standards and LDC • Identifying barriers • Overcoming obstacles • Connection to Compass • Job-embedded professional development

  4. Write: • Write down everything you read or write in a day in the space provided.

  5. Write: • Write down everything you read or write in a day in the space provided. • Cross out each item that is specific to your job, and only your job. Write each remaining item on a Post-It Note.

  6. Write: • Write down everything you read or write in a day in the space provided. • Cross out each item that is specific to your job, and only your job. Write each remaining item on a Post-It Note. • Rank each item on a scale of 1 – 5 (1 being irrelevant, 5 being critical)… How vital to your success as an individual is your ability to read or write each item?

  7. How vital to your success as an individual is your ability to read or write each item? 1 2 3 4 5 Irrelevant Absolutely Necessary

  8. Fiction or Non-Fiction? Fiction Non-Fiction

  9. Common Core Shifts Explaining things so well that students understand Getting students to explain so well that they are understood

  10. Common Core Shifts in Reading

  11. Common CoreShifts in Content It’s not about the task, it’s about the COMPLEXITY of the task. • Balancing informational and literary text • Building knowledge in the disciplines • Text-based answers • Writing from sources • Academic Vocabulary

  12. What is Common Core? • Reading • Discussing • Writing

  13. What is LDC? A framework for: • Reading • Discussing • Writing

  14. Identifying Barriers • Reading • Discussing • Writing

  15. Overcoming Obstacles Teachers NEED: • Confidence in their reading and writing skills • Understanding of what’s happening in English • Grading support • Consistent grading • “Look-fors” • Opportunities to collaborate • Help infusing creativity

  16. Connection to Compass

  17. Connection to Compass

  18. Job-Embedded Professional Development Teacher evaluations = tailored P.D. • New knowledge is linked to what they already know how to do • P.D. has actionable components where teachers interact with the task • Peer interaction, collaboration, and exchange of ideas

  19. Overcoming Obstacles

  20. The Role of Central Office Implementing across a School District: • Plan for implementation • Funding for training • Involve principals/coaches • Support for teachers

  21. Additional resources • Lesson Creation Support: • www.modulecreator.com • http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/the-times-and-the-common-core-standards-reading-strategies-for-informational-text/ • Exemplar videos and lessons: • www.teachingchannel.org • Classroom Support Toolbox: • www.louisianabelieves.org

  22. What’s our story? Q&A

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