Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum Iowa School Board Association November 2009

1. Leadership for the Iowa Core Curriculum Iowa School Board Association November 2009

2. Universal Constructs for 21st Century Success • Critical Thinking • Effective Communication • Creativity • Collaboration • Flexibility and Adaptability • Productivity and Accountability

3. 21st Century Learners 21st Century Learners in Iowa • Look like • Sound like • Are like • A Vision of K-12 Students Todayhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

4. The intent of the Iowa Core is two-fold: To ensure that ALL Iowa students engage in a rigorous and relevant curriculum To provide educators with a tool for assuring that essential subject matter is being taught. Iowa Core Curriculum Heartland AEA 2009

5. A state-wide effort to improve teaching and learning to ensure that all Iowa students engage in a rigorous and relevant curriculum. What is the Iowa Core Curriculum? Heartland AEA 2009

6. The Core Curriculum Provides… Comprehensive picture of effective curriculum that addresses: • Content • Instruction Assessment Heartland AEA 2009

7. Iowa Core Website • http://www.corecurriculum.iowa.gov/

8. Making Connections Heartland AEA Directions: Refer to the Financial Literacy Essential Concepts and Skills handout. Watch the video “Dollars and Sense,” keeping these concepts/skills in mind. Record connections you make between the video and the details around these concepts/skills. Share your connections.

9. Dollars and Sense • http://www.edutopia.org/ariel-community-academy-video

10. Characteristics of Effective Instruction Heartland AEA February 2009

11. Read the descriptions of each Characteristic.

12. Teaching for Understanding • Priorities for teachers: • Make learning a long-term, thinking- centered process • Provide for rich, ongoing assessment • Support learning with powerful representations • Pay heed to developmental factors • Induct students into the discipline • Teach for transfer Heartland AEA

13. Assessment for Learning • Deliberately planned • Based on clear learning targets • A process used during instruction • Used by both teachers and students • Feedback that’s descriptive, not evaluative • Teachers and students making adjustments to improve student learning Heartland AEA

14. Rigorous and Relevant Work • Challenging content significant to a topic • Higher-level thinking • Content connected to students’ lives • Learning that demonstrates value beyond the classroom Heartland AEA

15. Student-Centered Classroom • Builds learning opportunities on students’ natural curiosity and current knowledge • Provides students with an active role in their learning • Encourages students to be metacognitive • Provides authentic, challenging experiences • Shows teachers facilitating a variety of learning opportunities • Provides opportunities for students to reflect on what and how they learn Heartland AEA

16. Teaching for Learner Differences • Ensure access to the essential concepts and skills for all students • Have an instructional plan based on the assessed needs of individuals or groups of students (differentiated instruction) • Have a process to determine the effectiveness of instruction and to guide adjustments (instructional decision making) Heartland AEA

17. Supporting the Iowa Core through State Initiatives

18. EVERY STUDENT COUNTS

19. Every Student Counts Overview • Purpose: to develop a plan for building statewide capacity in K-12 mathematics • Result: school districts will have access to quality professional development and technical assistance in mathematics to help them meet their student achievement goals

20. Every Student Counts Goals • To improve achievement of K-12 students in mathematics • To build a learning community engaged in the study of mathematics, mathematics instruction, and student achievement in mathematics through effective implementation of Iowa’s Professional Development Model

21. Every Student Counts Overview The ESC themes • Teaching for Understanding • Problem-Based Instructional Tasks • Meaningful Distributed Practice

22. Essential CharacteristicsMathematics Iowa Core A world-class mathematics curriculum should be built around and focused on: • Teaching for Understanding • Problem-Based Instructional Tasks • Distributed Practice that is Meaningful and Purposeful

23. Essential Characteristics • Mathematical Modeling • Rigor and Relevance • Effective Use of Technology • Integrated Content Iowa Model Core Curriculum Mathematics document: http://www.iowamodelcore.org/content/Mathematics

24. ESC-Compatible Reform at the College Level New book from the Mathematical Association of America A Fresh Start for Collegiate Mathematics: Rethinking the Courses Below Calculus 49 papershttp://www.maa.org/reviews/freshstart.html Excellence in Teaching and Learning

25. From the Online Review:Predominant Themes • lessen the traditional amount of time performing algebraic manipulations • decrease time spent executing algorithms simply for the sake of calculation • restrict the topics covered to the most essential • decrease the amount of time spent lecturing • deemphasize rote skills and memorization of formulas Excellence in Teaching and Learning

26. Current practices should give way to a reformed curriculum and teaching that replaces these traditional practices with more productive ones. Specifically … Excellence in Teaching and Learning

27. More Productive Practices • embed the mathematics in real life situations • explore fewer topics in greater depth • emphasize communication of mathematics through discussion and writing assignments • utilize group assignments and projects to enhance communication in the language of mathematics Excellence in Teaching and Learning

28. More Productive Practices • use technology to enhance conceptual understanding of the mathematics • give greater priority to data analysis than in traditional precalculus courses of the past • emphasize verbal, symbolic, graphical, and written representations of mathematical concepts and objects • focus much attention on the process of constructing mathematical models before finding solutions to these models. Excellence in Teaching and Learning

29. Every Child Reads

30. ICC Literacy Strands • Reading • Writing • Viewing • Speaking • Listening

31. Literacy and the Iowa Core Characteristics of Effective Instruction • Rigorous and Relevant Curriculum • Teaching for Understanding • Student Centered Classrooms • Assessment for Learning • Teaching for Learner Differences

32. Literacy Instruction • Inquiry Models of Teaching and 21st Century Learning – • Picture Word Inductive Model • Essential Components of Literacy • Other Aspects of Literacy

33. PWIM Lesson Making Connections: • Refer to the Characteristics of Effective Instruction handout. • Watch the video keeping these characteristics in mind. • Record connections you make between the video and the details around the Characteristics. • Share your connections.

34. Initiatives/Strategies/Techniques from Every Child Reads • Picture Word Inductive Model • Think Aloud, Read Aloud, Talk Aloud • Concept Oriented Reading Instruction • Question Answer Relationship • Constructing Visual Representations • Writing Strategies: • Quick Writes

35. What is full implementation of the Iowa Core Curriculum? Full implementation is accomplished when the school is able to provide evidence that an ongoing process is in place to ensure that each and every student is learning the Essential Concepts and Skill Sets of the Iowa Core Curriculum. Heartland AEA 35

36.  A school that has fully implemented the Iowa Core Curriculum is engaged in an ongoing process of data gathering and analysis, decision making, identifying actions, and assessing impact around alignment and professional development focused on content, instruction, and assessment.  The school is fully engaged in continuous improvement processes that specifically target improved student learning and performance. Heartland AEA 11