Bringing the Pieces Together: Redefining Rigor: Common Core

1. Bringing the Pieces Together: Redefining Rigor: Common Core Jorge Euceda, M.S Division of Bilingual Education and World Languages June 2013

2. Objectives • Be able to question • Why must we redefine rigor? • How critical are the Seven Survival Skills of the twenty-first century to ELL? • Why is it critical for teachers to engage ELL in project-based learning? • How can technology play a greater role in the classroom? • What profound implications will our nation risk if we do not act?

3. Agenda • Introduction • Define Rigor • The Rationale: The Seven Survival Skills • Project-based Learning Tasks and Activities • Writing Assignment • Closing

4. Task 1 Determine which member in your group will fulfill the responsibility: • Editor • Designer • Photographer • Project Manager • Video Specialist • Power Point Specialist

5. Task 2 Please take out your cellphones. • Activate Evernote • Create a notebook • Title your notebook: Summer Heat 2013 • Create a new note • Title your note: Defining Rigor • Tap the center of your screen to activate the note-taking section • Type: I define rigor in the classroom as… • Share

6. Task 2 Checklist

7. Task 3 Please do the following: • Create a new note in Evernote • Title your note: Questioning the Seven Survival Skills • Tap the center of your screen to activate the note-taking section • During the video segment that you are about watch, please question the speaker five times in your notes • Share

8. Task 3 Checklist

10. The Rationale

11. The Global Achievement Gap

12. Task 4 Project Manager, Collaboratively, select a chapter from Esperanza Rising and assign yourselves a page to read and record it in Evernote. Please follow the script given and the instructions that follow it: “Good morning, my name is _______. I am a participant at the Bilingual Summer Heat Academy. Today is June 14th 2013 and I am going to read page 10 from the chapter Los Melones- The Cantaloupes- from the novel Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan Munoz.” Pause and read. • During reading, read all punctuations. • Close by saying, “Once again, I am _________. Thank you. • Text your recording to Mr. Euceda with a message. • Your message must include a greeting, body and a closing.

13. Task 4 Checklist

14. Task 5 Project Manager, Inform your team to complete the following tasks: • Write their name at the top of their assigned reading page. • Circle all unknown words in the chapter • At the end of the chapter, provide a word count of the unknown words • Clarify all unknown words through the use of translations, definitions, synonyms or antonyms • Using Evernote, photograph the page and text it to Mr. Euceda with a message that includes a greeting, a body, and a closing

15. Task 5 Checklist

16. Task 6 • Introductory slide • Fruit Quote • Morphology of the fruit • Origin of the Fruit • Fruit Varieties • Fruit Culinary Dishes • Fruit Medical Benefits • Fruit Nutritional Values • Fruit Health Products • Team Members Project Manager, Create a 12 slide Power Point Presentation of the fruit of the chapter you chose. Each member is responsible for at least one slide, which will be presented orally by its creator.

17. Task 6 Checklist

18. The Seven Survival Skills Team Rubric 6 7

19. Task 6 Individual Rubric 5 7

20. Task 7 Project Manager, Have your team do the following: • Select a fruit from any of the chapters in the book. • Each team member must select a different fruit. • Create a 30 second video clip about the fruit. • Type your script on Evernote. • The script must have a greeting, body, and a closing. • Share your video clip. • Send to Mr. Euceda.

21. Task 7 Checklist

22. Task 7 Individual Rubric 5 7

23. Task 8 Project Manager, Have your team do the following: • Visit Destinyschildren.org and review the timeline. • As you review the timeline, keep the following essential questions in mind: Is the immigration issue in the United States happenstance? How did these events create their own causes and effects? How have these events catapulted today’s immigration issues? • Write your notes in Evernotes, record team discussions, and send to me electronically

24. Task 8 Checklist

25. Task 9 Project Manager, Have your team do the following: • Read and discuss your chapter and the essential questions. • Select a topic from the topic list that is reflected in your reading • Ensure your topic does not infringe on another team’s topic. • Have each team member research the topic in different research sites • Have each member send all research notes to me electronically • Record your discussions in Evernote

26. Task 9 Checklist

27. Task 10 Project Manager, Have your team do the following: • Answer and discuss the essential questions provided on the next slide • Record your discussions in Evernote • Send me your answers and recorded discussions.

28. Task 10 Essential Questions • What is the connection between the research and the novel? • Is the issue in the novel still relevant in today’s global • society? Why or Why not? How? • Is the issue, in some way, connected to the community in • which we reside? How? • How has the issue affected the my community, the nation, the • region, and the world? • If the issue is still relevant, what are its future implications? • What solution or solutions do you propose for the issue? • Does the issue affect the your community’s, nation’s, or the • global economy? • Does the issue impact you personally? Why or Why not?

29. Task 11 Project Manager, Have your team complete the followingassignment: • Go to discoveryedu.com in your student portal • Search: Writing skills • Listen to writing video clips • Any questions or concerns see me

30. Task 12 Project Manager, As a team, complete the followingassignment: • Write an expository essay • Have each team member write a paragraph about their own research findings • Your essay must have as many paragraphs as there are team members • Type your essay on Microsoft Word • Refer to the essential questions and expository prompts • Audio record your essay individually and as a team. • Send me your recordings

31. Task 12 Individual Checklist

32. Task 12 Team Checklist

33. Expository Prompts • Explain how Esperanza’s flight from Mexico is similar or dissimilar to the many immigrant groups that have migrated to the United States. • Explain four reasons why immigrants will risk their lives in their search of a better life. • Explain how the events in Destinychildrens.org’s timeline have had an impact on the immigration issues we have today. • Explain how the immigration issues in Europe are similar to the immigration issues we have here in the United States. • Explain what global impact immigration has on the global community.

34. Topics • Poverty • Child Labor • Civil Rights • Persecution • Immigration • The Other Europe (Discoveryedu.com • Women’s Rights • Race Discrimination • Illegal Farm Workers • Undocumented Children • The Way We Live: Worlds Apart: Global Stratification (Discoveryedu.com)

35. Research Sites • CNN.com • LATimes.com • NYTimes.com • WashingtonPost.com • Discoveryedu.com • Destinychildren.org

36. Workshop Final Task • Please address the following questions: • Does your initial definition of rigor still stand? Why or Why not? • How critical do you think the Seven Survival Skills of the twenty-first century are to ELL? • Is it critical for teachers to engage ELL in project-based learning? Why or Why not? • Has the workshop changed your perception of technology within and outside the classroom? How? If not, why not? • Make sure that you argue your thoughts through detailed writing rather than through merely telling. • See next slide.

37. Writing Task Requirements • Complete assignment on Microsoft Word • Font size 12 • Double spaced • Turn in printed (hard-copy) • emailed a copy as an attachment to eucedaj@dadeschools.net.

41. The Seven Survival Skills Rubric 6 7