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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. GREAT Instruction Engagement Close Reading Growth Mindset.

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • GREAT Instruction • Engagement • Close Reading • Growth Mindset

  2. If you want to feel safe and secure, continue to do what you have always done. If you want to grow, go to the cutting edge of our profession. Just know that when you do, there will be a temporary loss of sanity. So know when you don’t quite know what you are doing, you are probably growing. -Madeline Hunter

  3. GREAT Instruction Guided by standards, data and curriculum Rigorous and relevant Engaging and exciting Assessed Tailored GREATResults

  4. What does FIDELITY mean? • Adherence • Faithful • Loyalty • Devotion Fidelity = teaching page by page in a textbook? REDEFINE FIDELITY: Teach CCSS and find the resources that will support your instruction and extend student learning!

  5. Layout of an ELA lesson:(possible) 90 minutes (minimum) 120 minutes suggested • Vocabulary/Grammar Small-group instruction (possibly) • Mini-lesson/Reading Small-group instruction (possibly) • Close Read/Reading Small-group instruction (possibly) • Grammar/Writing Small-group instruction (possibly)

  6. Layout of a Math lesson(possible) 60 minutes (minimum) 90 minutes suggested • Fluency Practice (CCSS Fluency Standards) • Application Problem (Hook) • Concept Development (Whole Group / Task Based / Small Group) • Student Debrief (Reflection / Formative Assessment)

  7. Engagement • When it comes to student engagement, the eyes don't have it • Student engagement is about the MIND • ALL students accountable for the thinking, the discussion, and, ultimately, the learning • How do we engage students?

  8. HandsOn MindsOn Learning • Think-Pair-Share • Write-Pair-Share • Turn & Talk • Close Reading • Accountable Talk • Quick Writes / Write to Learn Strategies • Cooperative Learning Groups • Socratic Seminar

  9. Writing to Learn • Writing Break • Exit Ticket • Admit Ticket • Drawing and Illustrating • Write-Around

  10. Close Reading • Close Reading Strategies 1. Number the paragraphs 2. Chunk the text 3. Underline and Circle…with a purpose 4. Left margin: What is the author SAYING? 5. Right margin: Dig deeper into the text • Aim for Independence Collaborative groups using Accountable Talk

  11. Write Around • Efficient & powerful • 3-5 students (4 is ideal) • Short notes to each other about a rich, complex topic assigned by the teacher. • Jot, pass, read, & add • All students writing…no off-task time • 2 rules: 1) Use all the time for writing & 2) Don’t talk when passing

  12. Close Reading Resources • Articles http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/carver/aa_carver_subj.html http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate • Mentor Authors engage students in writing by using “mentor texts” • AoW http://www.teachingthecore.com/resources/article-of-the-week-aow/ • Short Passages from Novels teaching excerpts

  13. Brain Research: Growth Mindset • Praise • Mistakes • Norm Setting

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