Resourcesto

facilitate sharing

and learning…

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Objectives for a Day of Sharing & LearningI will act to:• Expand my understanding of what increased rigor

looks and sounds-like in a classroom;• Explore strategies to challenge, in a meaningful way,

each child from where they currently are…(celebrate the struggle);

• Apply content-neutral learning structures that are ‘shelf ready’ for implementation the first day of school;

• Create a strategic plan to design my classroom(s) for maximum student achievement; and

• Enjoy actively participating, learning, and sharing with my peers!

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4 – second partner

Create a team of two educators from different schools to collaborate.

Find 2 comfortable seats and relax.Share something great about your school/division!

I just love these Dan Mulligan workshops!Did you bring your handout with you?

Reading Comprehension, COMMON CORE Math, and Skills for a Successful Life

Grade 3 Math

Grade 5 Math

Grade 8 Math

Have comprehension strategies been ‘liberated’ from the reading

block / English class?

Premise of the Workshop

As the United States continues to compete in a global  economy that demands

innovation, the U.S. education system must equip students with the four Cs:

1. critical thinking and problem solving,2. communication, 3. collaboration, and 4. creativity and innovation.

Prepared especially for the Learning Leadership Network of

HICKMAN MILLS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTby Dan Mulligan, flexiblecreativity.com

August 2013

CELEBRATE the STRUGGLE…Designing Every Classroom for Maximum Student Engagement!

“The difference between who you are and what you want to be is what you do.” ~Bill Phillips,2006

Rigor is creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so that he or she can learn at high levels, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels (Blackburn, 2008)

RIGOR with NURTURING

Designing Every Classroom for Maximum Student Engagement!

Ingredient 1:

By teaching students the Habits of Mind, they will be more disposed to draw upon the habits when they are faced with uncertain or challenging situations (e.g., rigorous SOL tests, college, career, etc.).

The habits will help all of us develop into thoughtful, compassionate, and cooperative human beings who can live productively in an increasingly chaotic, complex, and information-rich world.

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude”

~Zig Zigler

Habits of Mind are the characteristics that successful students do when they are confronted with problems, the

resolutions of which are not immediately apparent.

Which of these habits play a role in a student’s success on

‘more rigorous’ Common Core assessments?

Currently…are students provided with guidance

and feedback on these ‘habits’?

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• Three types of curricula exist in any classroom:• The Intended Curriculum: content/skill specified by the state,

division, or school at a particular grade level.• The Implemented Curriculum: content/skill actually delivered

by the teacher.• The Attained Curriculum: content/skill actually learned by the

students.

Intended Curriculum

Implemented Curriculum Attained

Curriculum

Effective Instruction #2: focuses on essential knowledge and essential skills

Missouri Common Core Learning

Standards

Essential Elements of a Vertically Articulated Curriculum

(Attained Curriculum)

EssentialSkills &

Processes

EssentialKnowledge

EssentialVocabulary

LEARNINGTARGET

(attained curriculum)

Reflect on your own progress with each

‘habit’…

Habits of

MIND

Type of ThinkingBloom’s Revised Taxonomy

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Advanced OrganizersUse Visuals

Advanced organizers help students organize the information and retain 5 times more of the information.

VENN DIAGRAMS

red thick

small

VENN DIAGRAMS

plants animals

50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

London, England

Organizing Theme:Things someone visiting would say …

New York City

Moscow, RussiaWashington, DC

Beijing, China

Roanoke, Virginia

TRAVELINGSummer of

2013 Edition

THE CITY EDITION

50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS

100 POINTS 100 POINTS

200 POINTS

HABITSof

MIND

PERSISTING THINKING FLEXIBLY ACCURACY

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONING

WONDERMENT

Reflect on your own progress with each

‘habit’…

Habits of

MIND

Category Ave. EffectSize (ES)

Percentile Gain

Identify similarities & differences 1.61 45Summarizing & note taking 1.00 34Reinforcing effort & providing recognition

.80 29

Homework & practice .77 28Nonlinguistic representations .75 27Cooperative learning .73 27Setting objectives & providing feedback .61 23

Generating & testing hypotheses .61 23Questions, cues, & advance organizers .59 22

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Think of one thing you, your grade-level/department, school, or division has done in the past year that has had a positive impact on student achievement. Be prepared to explain…(& be proud)

The Virginia DOE has been clear regarding raising the bar on rigor with the revised SOL. How has assessment/learning be adjusted in your grade-level/department to meet this challenge?

How does this picture relate to your role as a teacher or administrator? Complete this sentence: “This image is like my teaching/leading in that _____”

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Think of one thing you, your grade-level/department, school, or division has done in the past year that has had a positive impact on student achievement. Prepare to explain…(& be proud)

How does this picture relate to your role as a teacher or administrator? Complete this sentence: “This image is like my teaching/leading in that _____”

Dr. Carpenter has been clear regarding raising the bar on rigor with the revised standards. How might assessment/learning be adjusted in your grade-level/department to meet this challenge?

Designing Every Classroom for Maximum Student Engagement!

Ingredient 2:

Planning for Rigor: Depth of Knowledge

DOK offers a common language to understand "rigor," or cognitive demand, in assessments, as well as curricular units, lessons, and tasks. Webb developed four DOK levels that grow in cognitive complexity and provide educators a lens on creating more cognitively engaging and challenging tasks.

Depth of Knowledge (Thinking)

• Level 1Recall of a fact, information, or procedure

• Level 2Use information or conceptual knowledge, two or more steps, etc.

• Level 3Requires reasoning, developing a plan or sequence of steps, some complexity, more than one possible answer

• Level 4Requires an investigation, time to think and process multiple conditions of the problem

English Common Core & Depth of Knowledge

Level 1:The focus is on basic initial comprehension, not on analysis or interpretation. Items require only a shallow/literal understanding of text presented and often consist of verbatim recall from text, or simple understanding of a word or phrase.

English Common Core & Depth of Knowledge

Level 2:SOL assessment items at this level may include words such as paraphrase, summarize, interpret, infer, classify, organize, collect, display, and determine whether fact or opinion. Literal main ideas are stressed. Items may require students to apply skills and concepts that are covered in Level 1.

English Common Core & Depth of Knowledge

Level 3:SOL assessment items require the student to go beyond the text and are asked to explain, generalize, or connect ideas. Student must be able to support their thinking, citing references from the text or other sources. Items may involve abstract theme identification, inferences between or across passages.

English Common Core & Depth of Knowledge

Level 4:Requires complex reasoning, planning, developing, and thinking most likely over an extended period of time, such as comparing multiple works by the same author or from the same time period. An SOL assessment would NOT be Level 4.

Depth of Knowledge Essential Understanding:Unlike Bloom’s system, the DOK levels are not a taxonomical tool that uses verbs to classify the level of each cognitive demand. The DOK level is determined by the degree of mental processing required by the student to meet the objectives of a particular classroom activity. In the case of assessment, DOK is the cognitive demand required to correctly answer test questions.

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Where are we?

Suggestion: Use the “Roles of the Teacher and Student” to Structure your discussion.

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JIGSAW

Depth of KnowledgeMath:

Design and conduct experiments. Combine and synthesize ideas

into new concepts. Collect data over time taking into

consideration a number of variables and analyze the results.

Model a social studies situation with many alternatives and select one approach to solve with a mathematical model.

Develop a rule for a complex pattern and find a phenomenon that exhibits that behavior

Reading: Students will compare and

contrast elements, views, ideas, or events presented in one or more passages.

Students will identify the interrelationships (themes, ideas, concepts) that are developed in more than one literary work.

Students will analyze the ways in which similar themes or ideas are developed in more than one text.

Spin the Wordmodified

• Remove the cards from the bag.• Place the deck of cards face

down in the center of the table.• Determine the order of playing

by each person rolling the die.• Each card contains:

• Math vocabulary word, and• Method of giving clues

• Remember:• Each person has a turn,• Each person has a lifeline!

• Enjoy!

WHO AM I ?

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Mix it Up in the Box

• Listen for the topic and the amount of time;• Silently mix around the room;• When directed, pair up with person closest to you;• In pairs, Partner A shares and Partner B listens;• Partner B responds to what he/she heard by

paraphrasing: “LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I UNDERSTOOD YOU TO SAY”;

• Record summary of partners response; then• Switch Roles