1. District Inservice November 25, 2009
Thankful Partners

2. Why are We Here?

3. What is Our Mission?
Academics
Behavior
Civic Engagement

4. The Vision
Use Essentials to guide Academics, Behavior, and Civic Engagement
Use data to assess goal attainment
Work as a team to determine student strengths and areas of need
Design professional development opportunities to help educators meet these needs

5. Taking Active Learning One Step Further
Students need to be actively involved through higher level thinking skills
Math- Math talk as evidence of reasoning
SS- Analyzing Graphs
LA- Comprehension
SC- Lab activities relate to concepts
Developing reading comprehension in all subject areas
SQ3R
Etc.

6. How Do We Do It???
Research-based Strategies

7. Instruction that Works
Nonlinguistic Representations- Visuals
Practice IIIIII II I I I I I I I I I I I
Grade level appropriate strategies

8. Summarizing Rule-based Summarizing Frame-based: Argumentation
Delete trivial and redundant material
Substitute superordinate terms for more specific terms (i.e. fish for rainbow trout)
Select a topic sentence or invent one
Frame-based: Argumentation
Evidence
Claim
Support
Qualifier

9. More Instruction That Works
Note-Taking
Generating and Testing Hypotheses

10. Note Taking What is the purpose of taking notes?
Turn to your partner and discuss
Be ready to share

11. Purpose: Identify key ideas Record information for later review
Help students learn the material

12. Note Taking: Variety of Strategies
Informal outline
Webs
Double –entry
Visuals
Combination notes
Partner notes
Progressive notes
Expanding Notes
Entry Cards

13. Teaching Note Taking 1 How to identify key information
The Qualities of effective notes
The Uses of different formats
How to use notes to study and get information

14. Example: PreK 2 How to identify key information
“Listen for the animal noises”
The Qualities of effective notes
“ Did this help you remember?”
The Uses of different formats
“We can draw to remember, use our letters, or tell a friend…”
How to use notes to study and get information
“Let’s look at our drawing- what do you remember …”

15. Example: PE ES 3 How to identify key information
“What is the most important rule I shared?”
The Qualities of effective notes
“Did this picture help us remember how to hit a ball? Why or why not?”
The Uses of different formats
“We are going to create a word web to help us remember the different types of games…”
How to use notes to study and get information
“Take this home and tell your parents how it can help us remember…”

16. Example: HS Science 4 How to identify key information
“Read this paragraph and be ready to tell your partner which idea will be the hardest for you to remember.”
The Qualities of effective notes
“Exchange notes with your partner. Using our rubric, score his or her notes.”
The Uses of different formats
“Yesterday you took notes, today you have 5 minutes to record the key points in a different format…”
How to use notes to study and get information
“When I call your name, read aloud a key idea from your notes…”

17. But Why Does It Work??

19. Note Taking- Involvement
Partner notes (Assigned sections)
Each partner reads aloud what is on a note card and one person summarize.
Progressive (Start a card and pass it on)
Each partner reads aloud what is on a note card and one person summarize.
Expanding ( Take notes)
Pass each card around the group, each person adds a detail, makes a correction, or clarifies a point then gives the card back to the original author

20. What Next? Meet with your Needs-based groups Follow the agenda
Designed to help you meet your professional development goals
Follow the agenda
Record notes and thoughts
Share with principal as evidence of goal

21. Why?

22. Working in Partnership We Can…
Formative Assessment: Thomas
Nonfiction reading: Phillips*
Brain-based learning: Stiller *
Technology Integration:
106
Promethean: 107
Career Academies: Davis
Math: Klein
Vocabulary: Classen
Differentiated Instruction: Nielsen
ACT: Media Center
Discrete Trials: Davidson