Integrating Instructional Strategies: Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educators Series (ISLES) 1 Elementary Education Middle Grades Education Special Education Master of Arts in Teaching This module is designed for new faculty orientation in the Elementary Education, Middle Grades Education and Special Education, and Master of Arts in Teaching programs. ELEM 2123 This the department's introductory course which provides a comprehensive exploration of the program, actual practicum experience in a public school classroom, and preparation for admission to Upper Division.

New Faculty Orientation Learning Objectives By the end of this module you will be able to: Identify instructions for the teacher candidate student; Explain the grading criteria; Identify the enhanced features for educational needs; Use at least 4 of the instructional strategies during the teaching of the course using ISLES 1. Describe TQP grant Identify 5 categories of instructional strategies Identify 2 instructional strategies in each category Identify the levels of knowledge for ISLES 1, ISLES 2, and ISLES 3 Identify 5 special populations considered New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation: ISLES 1 Content of ISLES 1 Instructions Delivery platform Grading criteria and quiz Faculty role Clinical requirements Technology requirements Educational needs: Essential understandings Overview - contents New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Content of ISLES 1 TQP Grant New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation What is ISLES? New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Content of ISLES 1 Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educators Series: Declarative Knowledge Level = ISLES 1 Online module with 5 categories (islands) Each island contains definitions, key theorists, key research, benefits, and examples of the identified strategies. Focus of ISLES 1 is declarative understanding of the strategies. TQP Grant goal New Faculty Orientation

What prior knowledge do my students have? During their 2123 introductory course they received a handout about the instructional strategies. The contents of the handout identify each of the five categories. Each section then provides the definition, benefits, and examples of each of the ten specific instructional strategies. Research sources are included. You may download a copy from http://www.ecu.edu/cs-educ/TQP/upload/2123-Handout.pdf TQP Grant goal New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Instructions Candidates Faculty TQP Grant New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation About ISLES What’s This? Learn about a common framework for instructional practices that highlights 10 evidence based strategies for increasing student achievement. Explore the framework in your introduction courses, methods courses, senior courses, and internship. Understand it, explain it, see it, plan it, and do it! Experience the connections with Pitt County and Greene County schools as their teachers incorporate a similar framework. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Complete an online series of Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educator Series (ISLES) modules focusing on the framework at every step. The islands within the modules are designed using the Star Legacy Framework. Hot Links Dig more deeply into the Star Legacy Framework and why online modules were chosen. Click here: IRIS Center: http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/hpl/chalcycle.htm Think About   Consider how you will meet the needs of the diverse children in your classroom. The ISLES modules will prepare you to do just that, one semester at a time. New Faculty Orientation

Take a Look TQP Instructional Practices Organizers Graphic organizers Advance Organizers Concept Learning Examples /Non-examples Compare / Contrast Question and Review Higher level questions that ask for explanations Games Grouping Think-Pair-Share Jigsaw Assessment Formative Summative New Faculty Orientation

Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educators Series (ISLES) Overview Research has shown that student achievement is directly tied to teacher effectiveness. As a result, there is now a nationwide reform movement to improve teacher effectiveness. As part of the reform movement the Office of Innovation and Improvement in the United States Department of Education awarded “Teacher Quality Partnership Grants” to teacher education programs around the country. In the fall of 2009, the College of Education at East Carolina University won one of the 28 Grants. With the grant funds, ECU’s College of Education is reforming several areas of its program: Recruitment, Curriculum, and Clinical Practice. ECU partners, Pitt County Schools and Greene County Schools, are reforming their induction programs as well. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Overview – continued The ISLES Module that you are about to complete is part of the curriculum component of the reform. It is designed to teach you 10 particular instructional strategies. They are not the only strategies that are effective or that a prospective teacher should learn to incorporate in instruction. The 10 instructional strategies discussed in the module constitute a starting place; over time you are expected to learn additional effective instructional strategies. You will receive instruction on those additional strategies from your professors. Also note that instructional strategies are not the only means of raising student achievement. An effective teacher must have good classroom management, an effective curriculum, and appropriate professional dispositions. For now, however, the curriculum reform is focusing primarily on effective instructional strategies. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Overview – continued The goal of the module is to teach you what the strategies are. It is not designed to teach you how to incorporate the strategies into lesson plans or how to implement them when teaching students in a classroom. You will complete one module for each of those purposes later in your program. The following instructions will help you complete the module successfully. Please read all of them carefully. Thank you for your cooperation and good luck in your quest to become an effective teacher. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Module Instructions Provided to the Students Please read all of the instruction carefully before accessing the online module. The ISLES #1: Declarative Knowledge module is a required course assignment. It is important that you try your best when completing it and treat it as seriously as any other assignment in the course. It is also imperative that you maintain the highest academic integrity while completing it. Please do not discuss the assessment questions or answers with anyone else until after everyone has completed it. The module is comprised of 5 Islands (Organizers, Concept Learning, Question & Review, Grouping, and Assessment). Two strategies from each category are taught. It should take you between 30 minutes and 1 hour to complete each of the 5 islands. Carefully plan when and where you complete the module. Select a quiet comfortable location with enough time to complete a single island. You should also take notes while completing the islands. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation The ISLES module will be located in your course BB site. Once you access the site, you will see 5 PowerPoints, each one representing a different island of the module. Begin with the Organizers island. Work through that PowerPoint. If time permits, continue on to the Concept Learning island from there. If you don’t have time to do more than one island at a time, simply return to the website when you are able to do so. Follow this procedure for each of the remaining islands: Question & Review, Grouping, and Assessment. Be sure to complete the islands in order; this is important since the content of an island builds upon content in prior islands. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Each island has the same 5-part structure: Mission, First Impressions, Exploration, Assessment, and Review. In the Mission section, you learn about a familiar problem or situation that teachers encounter in their classrooms. From there you move to First Impressions where your prior knowledge about the mission is activated. In the Exploration part of the lesson you learn the lesson objective and the information about the instructional strategies in that category. After exploring the topic, you will assess your understanding in the Assessment part of the lesson using a multiple-choice quiz. Finally, you will review what you learned in the Review section which also include the reference and resources. When taking the quiz in the Assessment section of the lesson, you must answer each item to move forward and you cannot change your answer once it has been submitted. Blackboard will record your grade for each island and calculate your total grade for the module. You are now ready to begin the ISLES #1 Module. If you need technical assistance, submit a request to http://coehelp.ecu.edu New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation The following guides are available as links from http://www.ecu.edu/educ/tqp ISLES – FAQ Faculty Instructions ISLES Faculty Guide New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation ISLES 1 Instructional Strategy Lessons for Educators: Declarative Knowledge Level Title Research-based Instructional Strategies New Faculty Orientation

What does ISLES 1 include? The actual module with the five lessons is divided into three components: The lesson The assessment (quiz) The review and references View a public version on the web at http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Declarative/ Go to the second frame and select an island (category). The quiz is not available at this site. TQP Grant goal New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation What is ISLES? New Faculty Orientation

What does ISLES 1 include? The five islands represent the five categories of instructional strategies. TQP Grant goal New Faculty Orientation

Category: Organizers Strategies: Graphic Organizers Advance Organizers

Category: Concept Learning Strategies: Examples/Non-examples Compare/Contrast

Category: Grouping Strategies: Think-Pair-Share Jigsaw

Category: Question & Review Strategies: Higher level questions that ask for explanations Games

Category: Assessment Strategies: Formative assessment Summative assessment

New Faculty Orientation Delivery Platform Title Research-based Instructional Strategies New Faculty Orientation

How is this module delivered to my class? ISLES 1 is available as a Blackboard Learning Module and will be distributed by the Blackboard administrator prior to the beginning of the semester. How IS were chosen New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Grading Criteria Design of modules New Faculty Orientation

How are candidates assessed in meeting the objectives of the module? Included in the ISLES 1 course syllabus Counts between 5%-10% of the overall course grade Candidates visit each of the 5 islands (categories) Candidates take a multiple choice question quiz in Blackboard for each island (total of five quizzes). Grades are automatically computed in and recorded in the grade book in Blackboard. Candidates return to ISLES 1 to complete the post-module review and references. Model for design New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Faculty Role Design of modules New Faculty Orientation

What is my role in this course? All ELEM, MIDG, and SPED faculty are strongly encouraged to review ISLES 1 to learn what the students are expected to learn. Faculty members are responsible for requiring completion of ISLES 1 as a part of course requirements. Faculty members are encouraged to model the instructional practices while teaching and discuss the contents of the module with candidates as they complete the islands. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Clinical Requirements Components of modules New Faculty Orientation

Do the candidates have clinical requirements? There are no clinical requirements associated with ISLES 1. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Technology Requirements Design of modules New Faculty Orientation

What technology is needed by the candidates? Candidates will need access to Blackboard to view the files and take the quizzes. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view the PDF files. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Educational Needs Design of modules New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Educational Needs Addressing meeting the educational needs of all students English Language Learners (ELL) Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Literacy Instructional Technology (IT) Essential Understandings guides to assist students in utilizing the ISLES strategies with all learners. New Faculty Orientation

New Faculty Orientation Summary Elementary education, middle grades education, special education and the Master of Arts in Education programs are incorporating the teaching and modeling of instructional strategies. ISLES 1 is the declarative knowledge level module. Describe TQP grant Identify 5 categories of instructional strategies Identify 2 instructional strategies in each category Identify the levels of knowledge for ISLES 1, ISLES 2, and ISLES 3 Identify 5 special populations considered New Faculty Orientation

Specific Types of Strategy Applications Identified In Each Island Organizers Concept Learning Question and Review Grouping Assessment Graphic and Advance: Pie chart, circle graph, cloud, star diagram, Venn diagram, tree chart, story board maps, chain diagram, timelines, T-chart, KWL Examples/ Non-examples, Compare and contrast Extending and lifting, circular path, board games, video games, word games, computer games, interactive white boards Think-Pair-Share, Jigsaw Homework, quizzes, tests, exit tickets, one minute papers, student surveys, immediate, explicit feedback New Faculty Orientation

Microsoft Engineering Excellence Resources ISLES Faculty Guide http://www.ecu.edu/educ/TQP/upload/ISLES-Faculty-Guide-ELEM-MIDG-SPED.pdf TQP website http://www.ecu.edu/educ/tqp Public version of ISLES 1 http://www.coe3.ecu.edu/Isles/Declarative New Faculty Orientation Microsoft Confidential

Microsoft Engineering Excellence Resources - continued Elementary Education http://www.ecu.edu/educ/emge/elem/ Middle Grades Education http://www.ecu.edu/educ/emge/midg/ Special Education http://www.ecu.edu/educ/sefr/sped/ Professional Development Series for ISLES New Faculty Orientation Microsoft Confidential

This Concludes this Module on ISLES 1 New Faculty Orientation