The Purposeful Classroom Presented by Kate Petrie – Superintendent’s Conference Day –

Instructional Differentiation CONCEPTUAL FRAME:

Statement of Practice 4.2: School and teacher leaders ensure that instructional practices and strategies are organized around annual, unit, and daily lesson plans that address all student goals and needs.

What is purpose? pur·pose ˈ /p ə rp ə s/ noun 1. the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. verb 1. have as one's intention or objective.

Why does purpose matter? PURPOSE drives everything ▪ Why are you here? ▪ Where are you headed? ▪ What do you dream of? ▪ Why do you want to get there? How would those things be different without purpose?

So what’s our “purpose” today? When you leave today, I would like you to be able to say: I can explain where purpose fits in to my every day instruction. I can define one strategy I will use in my classroom tomorrow. I can define goals that will help me to define the purpose of my daily lessons.

Let’s think about how purpose fits into our classrooms. The Purposeful Classroom by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

We know that all of these things that help measure success TELL us that “purpose” is a BIG DEAL: ▪ Danielson Rubric ▪ DTSDE Rubric ▪ Tri-State Quality Rubric ▪ DTSDE Conceptual Frames But our classrooms SHOW us that it is.

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” -Washington Irving

How do we establish purpose? “I use objectives and I can statements, so I am establishing purpose in my classroom every day.”

Does this teacher communicate her objective or her purpose? ▪ objectives-clear objectives-clear ▪ What was effective about her objective? ▪ What could she have added after the objective to make it more purposeful for the students? ▪ Could this have been done before hand? ▪ How would you have done something similar with another lesson?

Purpose and Attention

Purposeful Planning – Gradual Release

Purposeful Planning Reading the plan Planning vs.

How can you “plan” for purpose? What do you need in order to do that?

“But, I am planning!” SoSo, what are you training for? training

Are your lessons and activities tied to a purpose? Are you asking WHY? Why this, not that?

How can we simplify our planning and still make it purposeful?

Time to goal set! Please feel free to collaborate and share. There are no right or wrong answers. This is a tool just for you!

Before we wrap up, let’s recap: ▪ We know that purpose is directly tied to all of these important instructional components: ▪ Relevance ▪ Expectations ▪ Objectives ▪ Attention ▪ Gradual Release/Scaffolding

So how’d we do on purpose today? Can you say: I can explain where purpose fits in to my every day instruction. I can define one strategy I will use in my classroom tomorrow. I can define goals that will help me to define the purpose of my daily lessons.

Thank you!