Prepared for the HCPS K – 2 Collaborative Learning Team Members of HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D., flexiblecreativity.com, August 2015 Essential Vocabulary Essential Skills Essential Knowledge LEARNING TARGET H IGH E XPECTATIONS “Sometimes the questions are complex but the answers are simple.” ~Dr. Seuss

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Think Pad is a resource designed to: provide evidence of understanding and participation during student-to student dialogue facilitate student reflection on their thinking

1. Create an Environment for Learning – –Helping students know what is expected of them, providing students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills 2. Helping Students Develop Understanding – –Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge – –Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought 3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge – –Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts. McREL, 2012 Framework for Instructional Planning McREL, 2012 Page 8

Find a friend from another schools and grade-level. Say ‘hello’. Find 2 comfortable seats and relax. *Please bring your handout and a pen(cil)! Find a friend from another schools and grade-level. Say ‘hello’. Find 2 comfortable seats and relax. *Please bring your handout and a pen(cil)!

Work collaboratively (e.g., construct viable arguments, critique, agree) to identify key words that capture the essential elements of strategies to assist all students to be successful used last year with fidelity. Enjoy working with your new best friend. Last year’s successful learning strategies

A. C REATING AN E NVIRONMENT FOR L EARNING A. C REATING AN E NVIRONMENT FOR L EARNING ADDITIONAL SAMPLE RESOURCES pages

A. C REATING AN E NVIRONMENT FOR L EARNING A. C REATING AN E NVIRONMENT FOR L EARNING F OSTERING C OLLABORATION WITH T ECHNOLOGY

PRELIMINARY 2015 SOL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DATA BY DIVISION - SPRING 2015 SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITIES

1. Create an Environment for Learning – –Helping students know what is expected of them, providing students with opportunities for regular feedback on progress, assuring students they are capable of learning content and skills 2. Helping Students Develop Understanding – –Integrating prior knowledge with new knowledge – –Procedural knowledge: constructing a model of the steps required of the process and practicing its variations; using the process or skill fluently or without any conscious thought 3. Helping Students Extend and Apply Knowledge – –Moving beyond ‘right answer’ learning to an expanded understanding and use of concepts and skills in real-world contexts. McREL, 2012 Framework for Instructional Planning McREL, 2012 Page 8

H ELPING S TUDENTS D EVELOP U NDERSTANDING Assessing for Conceptual Understanding (These are…These are not) Suggestion from Research: Open (begin) with the rigor… …but rather than rigor…scaffold the experience for students to foster rigor with nurturing…

If you want a learner to truly understand and own essential knowledge, expand your exploration from ‘what it is’ to also ‘what it is NOT’. page 8

Research on Imagery as Elaboration 6 37 percentile pts. higher than… …students who kept repeating definitions percentile pts. higher than… …students who were using the terms in a sentence. Students who used imagery to learn vocabulary, on average, performed # of studies

50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Elvis Organizing Theme: Things someone would say… Bill Clinton MadonnaMickey Mouse Aretha Franklin Mohammad Ali Famous Americans of the 20 th Century

1 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Matter Line of Symmetry Third from Right Pattern Solid Shapes Solid Rotation

50 POINTS 50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Rigor Organizing Theme: Teaching/Learning Strategies Relevance CollaborationCritical Thinking Formative Assessment Relationships

50 POINTS50 POINTS50 POINTS 100 POINTS 200 POINTS Ways to make.25 Grade 4 Math Things that are parallel perimeter Types of graphs area Types of angles

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

VENN DIAGRAMS red thick small

DOK 2: Basic Skills and Concepts AnimalsPlants

VENN DIAGRAMS FictionNonfiction

Motor Mouth Things associated with SCHOOL Books Report Cards Teachers School Bus Cafeteria Pencils Erasers Things associated with PLANTS Roots Stems Photosynthesis Flowers Leaves Water Seeds Things associated with MATTER Solid Liquid Gas Mixtures Solutions Atoms Molecules

Good Instruction (Keep it Simple…Keep it Real) “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact that we haven’t so far.” ~Ron Edmonds

Kinds of Evidence – Continuum of Evidence Informal Check for Understanding

? ? ? ? How can you use the Where do I belong? structure to support your role as teacher/administrator? A = bh Opposite sides equal 1 right angle Right Triangle 4 sides 3 sides 4 right angles A = ½ bh Rectangle One side is the longest

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Thank you for your commitment to children! "It's your attitude, not just your aptitude that determines your ultimate altitude." -- Zig Ziglar Dan

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