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CFU (Checking for Understanding)

SIT WITH YOUR CONTENT TEAM!. PLEASE OPEN ON YOUR COMPUTERS: ATL.CM.FD.2012 --> #CMIM Handouts --> Week2.Handouts --> CS Handouts . CFU (Checking for Understanding). An Introduction. Info Overload . Email Chloecscorneratl.wordpress.com (Fac. Student Learning)

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CFU (Checking for Understanding)

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  1. SIT WITH YOUR CONTENT TEAM! PLEASE OPEN ON YOUR COMPUTERS: ATL.CM.FD.2012 --> #CMIM Handouts --> Week2.Handouts --> CS Handouts  CFU (Checking for Understanding) An Introduction

  2. Info Overload  • Email • Chloecscorneratl.wordpress.com (Fac. Student Learning) • Flash drive path: Week 2- CS- CFU • Hard Copies at tables

  3. Chloe’s Hot Tips • BMC beasts (narrate) • Visuals, visuals, visuals • Norm check • Feedback is not a critique! Food forsoul 

  4. Reflect to perfect • Think about your last assessment. What surprised you? • Which core value do you embody more? Respect and HumilityLeadership • Jot down your choice on a sticky!

  5. Partner Up! • Music stops find your match! Bring a pen  • Respect and Humility: picture card • Leadership: blank • 2 min: • R and H will describe the drawing on his/her card to Leadership. • Leadership will try to draw the exact image. • No names! No questions! 

  6. Let’s Connect • How close was Leadership’s drawing? • What caused the discrepancy? • How does this compare to a lesson without checks for understanding?

  7. Bottom Line • No one is teaching if no one is learning! • CFU it up!

  8. Walk out of here… • What does an effective CFU look like? • Plan CFU questions and tasks at good spots in the lesson cycle (sprinkled please) How do you know what they know?

  9. How will we get there? • Engage (10) • Explore: Strong CFUs (20 minutes) • Explain: Guiding Principles (10) • Elaborate: Put into plans (25 minutes) • Evaluate: CFU, CFU? (5 minutes)

  10. Practice looking good….CFU lens • With a planning partner: (10-15) • Independently read the 1st section • Collaborate to mark up and discuss plan- use guiding questions under each section • Repeat this process for each section until you mark up the entire plan. • Discuss the summary questions at the end of the lesson. • Finished Early? Discuss other method strengths Handout C1Math, D1 Social Studies

  11. Video Quickie • What did the student response tell the teacher? • How did the teacher react? • Why do you think they made that choice?

  12. What does this mean? • High Five • 3 min: take a stab at writing the key points for this session! • 2-3 guiding principles for planning/executing strong CFUs • Share out: Scribe

  13. Compare Handout 1: soft copy 2

  14. How to CFU it up! Handout 2: CFU Planning Tools • Jigsaw 1-2-3-4 • Read resource • Discuss questions/confusions • 5 second overview: • 1 sentence summary • Create a haiku • Draw a picture or other visual • Develop a motion or other physical representation What’s out there and how can I use it on my own? Share out: CFU hot sheet at tables- use for idea bank

  15. Get gritty (15) Handout 2: CFU Planning Tools • Trade plans with a planning partner (Th/F) • Review plans, mark it up (7) • Planned CFUs • Possible missed opportunities to use CFU • Feedback (8) Yellow: is this chunk and chew place? Is it strong? Take-it-down level for struggling students? Take-it-up? Blue: why is this a good place? Method or question ideas?

  16. Final Tweaks/Questions • Tweak LP • CFU, CFU?

  17. What’s Next? • Next Steps • Additional follow-up session on CFUs (deep dive- reactions) • Script CFUs in lesson plans • Reflect on exit tickets and student practice • Work-Time/Coaching • Lesson Planning Clinics • See me! • Additional Resources: • TFANet (annotated plans) • Running peer-directed feedback • CFU it up hot sheet

  18. Deep thoughts with Chloe… • Chloewiley@gmail.com • “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I understand!” • What does this quote make you think of in terms of what we learned in this session? Optional : Any general CS session feedback How can I make sessions more helpful to your development as a teacher leader?

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