Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development

1. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Evelyn Mamman, Director, Title I and Supplemental Education, Interim Language Arts Supervisor New Brunswick School District Walter J. Cmielewski, Language Arts Consultant, Professor, Caldwell University

2. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development • What is Job-embedded professional development? • Teacher Learning • Day to day teaching practice • Designed to infuse best practices into the classroom

3. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development “Up-Front” Training Workshops Classroom Visits and On-site P.D. Consistent Format and Approaches

4. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development “Up-Front” Training Workshops Writing • Quick Writes • Writer’s Workshop • Portfolios • Pre-Writing Graphic Organizers

5. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development “Up-Front” Training Workshops Reading • Jump-in Reading and Pointed Reading • Reader’s Workshop • Guided Reading • Literature Circles • Focus on higher order questions • Wait Times

6. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Classroom visits and On-site P.D. Demo Lessons and Debriefing Classroom Visits to Observe Lesson and Debriefing Common Planning Time Meetings Building Reading Specialists as On-site Resources

7. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Consistent Format and Approaches The structures are identical in all buildings. Transient population Vertical and horizontal articulation

8. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Quick Writes are do-now’s, two-minute writing based on a single word. • Shared with a partner • Shared by nomination with the class

9. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Let’s try a quick write….. The word is ______________. Go!

10. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development WRITER’S WORKSHOP • Status of the Class • Teacher calls each student to ascertain his/her plan for the workshop. • Choices: SSR/SSW – Sustained Silent Reading/Writing Teacher conference Partner conference Sharing time • Mini-lesson Procedural Motivational Skills • SSR/SSW and Teacher Conferences and Partner Conferences These occur concurrently. • Dialog Journal (Reader’s Workshop only) Students write about what they read in SSR and pass the dialog journal to the teacher or a classmate for his/her response. • Sharing Time Students share with the entire class about their reading/writing from that day

11. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development PORTFOLIO PROGRAM • Works in Progress Folder Work student is presently working on Student can retire a piece and hold onto it and go onto a different piece. • Classroom Portfolio Completed and graded student work that was not chosen for the traveling portfolio. • Traveling Portfolio Contents of a traveling portfolio: 4 marking period pieces Cover sheet- “Why This Piece Belongs in My Portfolio” Letterwritten to next year’s teacher at the end of the school year. The letter should state the following: What they like about reading and writing. What they are struggling with What they are good at 5 point state rubric Teacher circles appropriate indicators relevant to the student as a writer for the year.

12. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Graphic Organizer for Narrative Writing The “Secret Planner”

13. “Secret Planner”

14. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development The 3 Wait Times

15. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Wait Time 1 The teacher asks a questions and waits. No hands until the signal is given.

16. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Wait Time 2 The student responds and the teacher waits.

17. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Wait Time 3 A student asks a question, and the teacher waits.

18. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Jump-in Reading • Students read passage silently in class or at home first • Teacher begins oral reading and any student may jump in and teacher jumps out • Other students jump in and out as well as the teacher • Teacher jumps in on proficient readers and struggling readers to prevent stigmatizing the struggling reader

19. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Pointed Reading • This activity follows Jump-in Reading. • Teacher selects a favorite word or phrase and points to it and asks the students to do the same • Students and teacher begin to call out their favorites • Even if someone has taken yours, you still call out yours and anyone can call theirs again and again

20. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development READER’S WORKSHOP • Status of the Class Teacher calls each student to ascertain his/her plan for the workshop. Choices: SSR/SSW – Sustained Silent Reading/Writing Teacher conference Partner conference Sharing time • Mini-lesson Procedural Motivational Skills • SSR/SSW and Teacher Conferences and Partner Conferences (These occur concurrently.) • Dialog Journal (Reader’s Workshop only) Students write about what they read in SSR and pass the dialog journal to the teacher or a classmate for his/her response. • Sharing Time • Students share with the entire class about their reading/writing from that day

21. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development GUIDED READING • 1. Picture Walk (1-2 minutes) • 2. Oral Reading by Teacher (10 minutes) • 3. Mini Lesson (5 -7 minutes) • 4. Whisper Reading by students (5 minutes) • 5. Retelling by Students (2 minutes) • 6. Follow-up Activities • 7. Optional Extension Activities

22. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development LITERATURE CIRCLES • These are cooperative learning reading groups in which each participant has an assigned role/task. The six roles/tasks are: • Discussion Director: Creates questions which evoke a discussion • Summarizer: Captures the main points of the reading done previously • Illustrator: Creates an illustration which evokes discussion • Connector: Makes connections to life or other literary works • Word Wizard: Selects vocabulary in context for students to discuss • Passage Picker: Selects passage which illustrate descriptive language or figures of speech

23. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development The Ladder and the Building The Manager and the Leader

24. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development A manager sees the ladder leaning against a building and makes sure that the ladder is safe, no splinters, no loose rungs, etc.

25. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development A leader makes sure the ladder is leaning against the right building.

26. Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development Thanks for being such a great audience! Evelyn Mammon New Brunswick Public Schools evelyn_mamman@nbps.k12.nj.us Dr. Walter J. Cmielewski Caldwell University wcmielew@caldwell.edu