Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” C OMMON C ORE G EORGIA P ERFORMANCE S TANDARDS : T HE B ASICS OF CCGPS I NSTRUCTIONAL P LANNING AND U NIT D ESIGN RESA/DOE SUMMER INSTITUTE C OMMON C ORE G EORGIA P ERFORMANCE S TANDARDS : T HE B ASICS OF CCGPS I NSTRUCTIONAL P LANNING AND U NIT D ESIGN Gerald Boyd, Susan Jacobs Georgia Department of Education English Language Arts

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Class Keys Standard CP 1.2 The teacher demonstrates a clear understanding of the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) by appropriately planning for what students are expected to know, understand, and do in the grade level and content area.

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Essentials of Unit Planning Use standards-based design Begin with the end in mind Establish meaningful essential questions and learning targets Delineate formative and summative assessments

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” How is this new instructional platform NEW? How is it BETTER?BETTER

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” GPS/CCGPS Identify 3 key things… What is new in CCGPS? What is unchanged from GPS?

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Start Packing! 1’s 16 years old Female Pack for a week trip to the beach with a youth group. No Parents 2’s 30 years old Male Pack for a week vacation at the beach with bro’s No Fiancé 3’s 45 years old Female Pack for a week vacation for a Caribbean cruise with husband No kids 4’s 60 years old Male Pack for a week trip to Vegas for poker with buddies. No wife or kids

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Trip Essentials After making a list of what you need for your trip, identify the three most essential things you will need to enjoy yourself. Next, identify what you will need to 1) know, 2) do, and 3) understand in order to plan this trip.

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Reflection How is planning for a trip like planning for instruction? How do we determine what students need to know, do, and understand?

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” How We Got Here: Curriculum Maps and Unit Planning What are the expectations for local systems? The Curriculum Maps are based on the PARCC Framework

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” ONE EXTENDED TEXT # SHORT TEXTS (THEMATICALLLY CONNECTED) SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS STANDARDS FOCUS GENRE FOCUS UNIT OUTLINE

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Curriculum Maps and Unit Planning Local systems may use the GADOE units as they are or the systems may change the units or the systems may build their own units. The expectation is to deliver instruction which addresses the CCGPS at grade-level rigor and text complexity.

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Template Study Using the template provided, talk with your partner about where in this infrastructure you will find Standards-based planning Backward Design Formative and Summative Assessments Rigor, appropriate DOK, and appropriate Text Complexity and appropriate mix of genres in reading and writing What else would we like to find, and is it there?

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Template Study Using the template provided Sketch out the cover page with the bare bones of a unit you have taught in the past Identify the extended texts and at least one complementary short text and be able to defend their appropriateness in complexity and rigor Write one sample prompt that you think exemplifies appropriate rigor and DOK for a CCGPS unit Identify an essential question for your unit and at least one task

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” What is Backwards Design? Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” What is Backwards Design? Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Mastery of Standard Summative Assessment (R/W) Tasks

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Formative Assessment-Frayer Diagram Essential Question or Enduring Understanding DefinitionCharacteristics Examples Non-examples

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Formative and Summative Assessments

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Formative and Summative Assessments

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” What does this video teach us about students and essential questions? 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Essential Questions What are they and how can they help us provide context for instruction? There are two types of essential questions ◦ Ones that derive from enduring understandings ◦ Ones that drive unit frameworks/daily lessons “The point is not to quibble about whether a question is an essential question or unit question, rather to focus on its larger purpose- to frame the learning, engage the learner, link to more specific or more general questions, and guide exploration and uncovering of important ideas.” (Wiggins and McTighe, 30) 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Essential Questions Essential Questions are “provocative and multilayered questions that reveal the richness and complexities of a subject.” – Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Characteristics of Essential Questions Goes to the heart of a discipline What makes a book a classic? Recurs naturally throughout one’s learning and in the history of a field. How does language affect meaning? Raises other important questions What do we mean by language? 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Instructional Practice A curriculum document such as the CCGPS mandates what teachers should teach at respective grade levels. Such a document does not mandate how to teach. No curriculum document (and no unit framework) can make a “good” teacher. 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Instructional Practice Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESAs) are uniquely equipped to assist teachers with good instructional practice. (See Leigh Ann Putman) Teachers who are using good practices now (strategies such as Writer’s Workshop) should continue using those strategies. The CCGPS is expansive, not prohibitive. 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” Accessing Unit Planning Resources GeorgiaStandards.Org – Model Unit Frameworks – Blank Planning Template – Curriculum Maps ELA Editable Unit Drop Box Box ELA Reporter NewsletterNewsletter ListServ: 1/26/2016

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent “Making Education Work for All Georgians” How Can We Help? Gerald BoydSusan Jacobs Kim JeffcoatDaniel Rock DOE ELA HOMEPAGE: 1/26/2016