ACES Professional Learning Community, Meeting THREE

1. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014 ACES Professional Learning Community,Meeting THREE

2. Meeting Three Agenda • Welcome back! • Sharing our observations (Outside Task #5) • Sharing our TIF-ed lessons (Outside Task #4) • TIF-ing our classrooms (Outside Task #3) • The Complete TIF • Reflecting on this PLC • What’s next? • Self-reflection • Wrap-up, questions, & plans to continue exploring transitions ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

3. Warm-up Activity • Share of TIF “highlight” with the group. What is one positive outcome you had in your instructional setting that resulted from your PLC work? ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

4. Who is the ideal ACES practitioner? • The ideal ACES practitioner • knows about… • knows how to… • is committed to… What should we add to our list from last time? ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

5. Lesson Observation through TIF Lens– Outside Task #5 • Talk with a small group (NOT your working group). • Discuss your observations of colleagues (or video lesson). Who/what did you observe? What transitions skills were put in action? What more “TIF-ing” could be done, do you think? ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

6. TIF-ed Lesson: Try it Out 2! – Outside Task #4 • Now, in your working group, share your TIF-ed lesson/learner plan/materials. • Then share out some examples with the larger group. Discuss how you used the ACES process to assess, complement, evaluate, and study & reflect a lesson for Outside Task #4. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

7. TIF Your Classroom! Outside Task #3 Write an example of a routine, norm, & learning task format that you did/do on each poster. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

8. Share some of your Norms/Routines/Learning Task Formats with the larger group • Share a few examples with the larger group. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

9. Break ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

10. Time for the Complete TIFLink: http://atlasabe.org/professional/transitions • Navigate the complete TIF to find sample activities for the sub-skills in your category of focus. Transitions Integration Framework ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

11. TIF Categories ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

12. Transitions Integration Framework TIF: Transitions Integration Framework Outlines the skills needed for successful transitions . Serves as a guide for integrating transition skills into instruction. Complete TIF contains: • Categories & definitions • Skills & sub skills • Sample activities ranging from simple to complex • Sample technology ideas to practice skills • Ideas to contextualize for community, school, or work ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

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14. Transitions Integration Framework The Complete TIF • Navigate the complete TIF to find sample activities for the sub-skills in your category of focus. • Choose a sample activity you could tweak and use with your students. • Discuss your choice with your partner/group. Then share out sample activity “finds” with the large group. How could this activity work in different contexts? ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

15. Your TIF Category: How’s it going now? • Engaging positively and actively with individuals in both one-on-one and team settings to accomplish goals • Using information to draw conclusions and make decisions • Setting realistic goals and working independently to achieve them ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

16. Looking ahead…How often do you provide instruction that allows your students to… • Evaluate personal skills, strengths, values, and beliefs to inform decisions about one’s future pathway • Recognize and apply rich academic vocabulary in multiple discourses (reading, writing, speaking, • and listening) • Identify and follow norms of an organizational structure ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

17. Looking ahead…How often do you provide instruction that allows your students to… • Applying appropriate strategies for comprehending oral or written language in texts and listening activities • Apply patterns and use variables to represent and solve problems that involve numeracy in everyday and/or academic contexts ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

18. College & Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) Alignment TIF Abbreviations: • Effective Communication (EF) • Learning Strategies (LS) • Academic Language and Skills (ALS) • Numeracy (N) • Critical Thinking (CT) CCRS Abbreviations: ELA/Literacy Domains • Reading (R) • Writing (W) • Speaking and Listening (SL) • Language (L) Mathematics Domains • Domain abbreviation is followed by the Level (A-D) where the standard first appears. • Numbers and Operations (NO) • Operations and Algebraic Thinking (OAT) • Geometry (G) • Measurement and Data (MD) • Ratios and Proportional Relationships (RP) • Expressions and Equations (EE) • Statistics and Probability • Mathematical Practice (MP) ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

19. TIF and CCRS Alignment Chart Effective Communication • EC .1a -- SL.1 • EC.1b -- SL.1 • EC.1e -- SL.3 • EC.2a -- SL.5 • EC.2b -- SL.5 Critical Thinking • CT.1d -- W.1 • CT.3 -- R.8 • CT.3c -- W.8 • CT.4 -- R.8 • CT.4a -- R.6, SL.3, W.9 ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

20. Where have we been? • Take some time to review our PLC activities. On the handout, identify the zoom-in and zoom-out moments of our work and your main take-aways. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

21. What’s next? Think/Pair/Share • What’s next? Choose which area(s) of the TIF you would like to explore next. • What local support would be helpful? • How can I impact my program? • What support will I need from the wider ABE community? ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

22. SMART Goal Template (Optional!) Discuss what SMART goals are, and set a SMART goal for continued application and learning of TIF integration. ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014

23. Thank you & Wrap-up THANK YOU for participating in an ACES Professional Learning Community! ACES PLC, ATLAS, March 2014