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What makes your students successful their first year in college?

What makes your students successful their first year in college?. Is it the facts they learned in your classroom, or the skills?. Housekeeping. Meeting Norms. If cell phones are driving you crazy, here are a few simple rules of courtesy to pass out to your family and friends:.

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What makes your students successful their first year in college?

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  1. What makes your students successful their first year in college? Is it the facts they learned in your classroom, or the skills?

  2. Housekeeping

  3. Meeting Norms • If cell phones are driving you crazy, here are a few simple rules of courtesy to pass out to your family and friends:

  4. Turn off your phone as you enter a theater, classroom, workshop, conference, or other public function. If you really can't be out of touch, PUT IT ON VIBRATE!

  5. If you do need to answer a phone during one of the previously mentioned, please get up out of your seat and go out into the hall to have your conversation.

  6. The rule of two feet… • We are all adults • We aren’t responsible for students today. Thus, we can use our two feet beyond the confines of these walls.

  7. Side-bar talking • Please limit talking with other participants unless group work is under way.

  8. Goal • What you will leave with today…

  9. Overview of materials • Introductions by district • Roles of math teachers, science teachers, and administrators

  10. ACT SUCCESS

  11. The Explore • Purpose: Help 8th graders plan for their high school coursework as well as career choices. • Score Range: 1 - 25 • Testing Window: Sept. 17 - 28

  12. The Plan • Purpose: Helps students measure their academic development and make plans for remaining high school years and beyond. • Score Range: 1 - 32 • Testing Window: Sept. 17 - 28

  13. The ACT • Purpose: Assess general educational development and their ability to complete college-level work • Score Range: 1 - 36 • Testing Window: March 11, March 11 – 25 for accommodations testing, and March 25 for make-ups

  14. Kentucky and the ACT • Why is Kentucky administering? • What is the law surrounding this mandate? Senate Bill 130 http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/06rs/sb130.htm Related to the bill is KRS 158.6453

  15. Let’s take the test • Science (page 188) will take the complete test • Math (page 164) will take either the odd or the even… • Everyone will have 35 minutes

  16. BREAK...

  17. Test Analysis… Math: Match problem with strand and DOK Science: What do kids have to know and be able to do in order to be successful on the math and science portions of the ACT?

  18. Table of Information: Two column • 1st column: What do students have to know and be able to do to be successful on the test? • 2nd column: What experiences do they then have to have in the classroom?

  19. Facilitated Planning…

  20. What does this mean for our students?

  21. Structure…

  22. Math Content

  23. College Readiness

  24. GOOD INSTRUCTION

  25. Curriculum, Program of Studies, & 21st Century Skills

  26. District Initiative, not just high school

  27. DOK of 1 DOESN’T Reflect Difficulty

  28. Other faculty • Technical Reading • Kind and Speed • Math classes using science data examples • Science classes including algebra

  29. IEPs

  30. ARP

  31. ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks

  32. Begin District Planning

  33. It’s Lunch, Let’s Munch!

  34. Give oneGet oneCome back with 5

  35. Share out…

  36. Break!

  37. Group Planning&Discussion

  38. What Colleges Expect

  39. ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks

  40. What do the benchmarks mean? According to the ACT site, a benchmark of 22 on the mathematics section, a 24 on the science section means a student has approximately a 50% chance of earning a B or better and 75% chance of earning a C or better in an equivalent college course. www.act.org

  41. Among Kentucky Students • 67% met or surpassed the English benchmark, compared to 69% nationally • 34% met or surpassed the math benchmark, compared to 42% nationally • 50% met or surpassed the reading benchmark, compared to 53% nationally • 23% met or surpassed the science benchmark, compared to 27% nationally

  42. The Math Test Itself There are sixty multiple choice questions in sixty minutes It’s the mathematics needed for college mathematics courses

  43. Math Content

  44. Math Content

  45. The Science Test Itself There are forty multiple choice questions in thirty-five minutes The test emphasizes application of scientific reasoning skills rather than recall of content, math skill, or reading level.

  46. Science Content

  47. Strategies…Before that, we must say something very important! There is no “quick fix” • So, think crock pot, not microwave

  48. Brain Storm5 minutes

  49. Share out…

  50. Student Strategies

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