Session V

1. Session V Christopherson August 21-22, 2012

2. Introductions • What is your name? • Where you teach? • What you teach this year? • What is something fun that happened over the summer?

3. High school leadership • Kelly Batten: Executive Director of Secondary and CTE • Derrick Jordan: Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services • Beth Seawell: Administrative Assistant to Kelly Batten • Spencer Register: Secondary Instruction Program Facilitator

4. Spencer Register • Instructional Program Facilitator’s Role • Supervise & assist with the development of district created curriculum documents. • Provide supervision & assistance for contracted high school projects. • Maintain Communication with NCDPI regarding updates. • Research resources, instructional strategies, etc. that can be incorporated. • Conduct high school walk-throughs for the purpose of: • Identifying the strengths in the instruction • Identifying areas of needed professional development and/or coaching • Perform classroom observations • A teacher can request an observation to help identify additional strategies that can be used or to show off a special activity. • A principal can request that a teacher be observed for instructional assistance. Prior notice will be provided to the teacher by the principal.

5. Observation Feedback • When a classroom observation is performed, written feedback will be provided to you. • For classroom walk-throughs, occasional feedback may be provided. If you do not receive feedback and would like some, simply ask.

6. County Update • The county science fair date will be Thursday Dec. 13th at Jordan-Mathews which has offered to be the host site again. We appreciate Jordan-Mathews offering to be the host site again given their central geographic location and their experience at hosting the event. • Additional information will be forthcoming about exact timelines. Schools are free to set their own date for your particular school’s science fair date.

8. Agenda for 8/21 1. Overview of what was accomplished last school year. 2. Updates from NCDPI. 3. Revisiting the content units. 4. Discussion of next steps for Science in 2012-2013. 5. Focus on the implementation of the Literacy and Writing Standards into curriculum and/or other proposals for 8/22.

9. What did we accomplish last year??

10. “Understanding the Standards” Expectations I can describe how the new standards compare to the 2004 Standard Course of Study.

11. “Understanding the Standards” Expectations I can describe the benefits of the new standards and explain how they will improve student learning.

12. “Understanding the Standards” Expectations I can identify themes, strands, and organizational structure of standards from a K-12 perspective (DPI posters)

13. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy!

15. to increase the alignment of standards to instructionand ASSESSMENT You are learning about RBT to better understand the components that define the state curriculum standards and…

17. Literacy and Writing Standards

18. Distribution of Literary and Informational Passages by Grade in the 2009 NAEP* Framework *National Assessment of Education Progress

19. What can we (Science) do? Students need to be able to read complex informational texts with independence and confidence because the vast majority of reading in college and workforce training programs will be sophisticatednonfiction

20. What can we (Science) do? Students must be able to write. To do this we need to help them learn how to: -express thoughts -choose appropriate audience and words -use technology for composition and research -cite sources correctly

21. Created Unit Plans

22. Agenda for 8/21 1. Overview of what was accomplished last year. 2. Updates from NCDPI. 3. Revisiting the content units. 4. Discussion of next steps for Science 2012-2013. 5. Focus on the implementation of the Literacy and Writing Standards into curriculum and/or other proposals for 8/22.

23. NCDPI Summer Institute 2012 • Curriculum Topic Studies • Science Probes • Chatham County Schools and espicall Science is AWESOME!!!

24. Released Assessments Linked to my Wiki under Science Standards http://christophersonbiology.wikispaces.com/

25. Explore the Assessments What are some things you notice? Take a moment to discuss your thoughts with the table.

26. NCDPI Wikihttp://scnces.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/

27. Agenda for 8/21 1. Overview of what was accomplished last year. 2. Updates from NCDPI. 3. Revisiting the content units. 4. Discussion of next steps for Science 2012-2013. 5. Focus on the implementation of the Literacy and Writing Standards into curriculum and/or other proposals for 8/22.

28. Unit Review Review all units for the required components and for accuracy and depth.

29. Unit Review Component Descriptions

30. Chatham County Schools Wiki: Units have been previewed and critiqued Go to the Chatham County Schools homepage: http://www.chatham.k12.nc.us/

31. You will be asked to sign in. Use your Chatham County Login

32. Unit Reflections • So, as you utilize the units, use the three questions to reflect on the unit. Please provide your input in the columns. This input will be used to help facilitate discussions during school and county-wide departmental meetings.

33. Take a few moments and explore.

34. Unit Review Plan Form 5 groups with “equal” number of people One person will write on the Unit Review sheet. Another person can write suggestions on the paper copy of the unit plans Others can follow online using the Wiki

35. Agenda for 8/21 1. Overview of what was accomplished last year. 2. Updates from NCDPI. 3. Revisiting the content units. 4. Discussion of next steps for Science 2012-2013. 5. Focus on the implementation of the Literacy and Writing Standards into curriculum and/or other proposals for 8/22.

36. Teacher Expectations for 2012-2013 Implementation of the new Essential Standards, RBT, Literacy, Writing, Unit Plans, EOC’s and MSL’s Understanding of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ?????????

37. Think about one of your favorite lessons. Write down every teaching method/tool that you use in lesson.

38. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

39. How Fortunate for Biology! Biology Modules Thanks to Enrique Cachafario, Biology has remediation modules.

40. Where do we go from here? What would you like to see Chatham County High School Science to accomplish for the 2012-2013 school year? (District, School, Individually)

41. Action Plan for 2012-2013

42. Agenda for 8/21 1. Overview of what was accomplished last year. 2. Updates from NCDPI. 3. Revisiting the content units. 4. Discussion of next steps for Science 2012-2013. 5. Focus on the implementation of the Literacy and Writing Standards into curriculum and/or other proposals for 8/22.

43. ACT Science – 2011 Results Science Benchmark is a 24 (This # is an indicator of college readiness) What does this data mean?????

44. ACT Science: Obstacles It is the LAST section of the ACT Students have 35 minutes for 40 questions

45. Timing is Everything!!! Passages with 5 questions: 4 minutes Passages with 6 questions: 5 minutes Passages with 7 questions: 6 minutes Can you do it?? * Keep the test face down; you have 4 minutes to complete the section

46. How are we implementing Literacy and Writing into our curriculum for the 2012-2013 school year?

47. Plan of Action Science: Department Plan We have a plan of action for the rest of today and tomorrow.

48. Product Proposal Name(s): Content Area: Completion Date: By the end of the day 8/22 The following product will be complete: Specific examples of literacy and/or writing activities will be implemented into all of the Science Units. Literacy Lesson Plan will be filled out for each unit and emailed to Cari Christopherson to post on all the Wiki’s This product will help me learn and utilize the new standards by:

50. What was the name of the mechanical shark in the 1975 hit movie Jaws? Bruce