Introduction to LDC Teacher Training

1. Introduction to LDCTeacher Training 1 part session

2. Teacher Training – 1 Day Session Outcomes • Learn about LDC as a strategy for implementing the Common Core • Use an LDC Template Task to create a Teaching Task • Begin to incorporate grade level skills and demands of the Common Core into Section 2 and 3 • Discuss and begin to plan aligned/coherent mini tasks that provide formative teaching and learning opportunities • Discuss LDC scoring elements and practices • Discover supports for implementing LDC

3. Teacher Training – 1 Day Session Agenda • Welcome • LDC Framework, A Strategy for Implementing the Common Core • Specific Grade Level ELA and Content Standards • Instructional Shifts of the Common Core • A Look into an LDC Classroom • Section 1: What Task • Intentional Choice of Template Task • Qualities of a Strong Teaching Task • Jurying a Teaching Task • Create a Teaching Task • Overview and Background • Text Selection • Sections 2: What Skills • Skill Clusters • Skills • Grade Level Literacy CCSS and Content Specific Standards • Skill Definition Ability to… • Section 3: What Instruction • Skills --- Mini Tasks (A Formative Teaching and Learning System) • Group Activity - Creating a Mini Skill • Work Session • Section 4: What Results • Scoring vs. Grading • LDC Rubric • Calibrating Scoring • Discover supports for implementing LDC • Electronic Tools and Websites • R-Coaching

4. Additional Offerings from Reach • LDC Introduction Teacher PD --- 3 part session • LDC Introduction Teacher PD --- 1 part session • LDC Introduction Leadership PD --- 3 part session • LDC Train the Trainers PD --- 2 part session • Remote Support • Virtual PD Sessions • Support for Writing and Implementing a Module • Building Capacity • Support for Leaders/Coaches