1. Instructional Focus Calendar
Instructional Focus Calendar Presented By: Melonee Ferguson Literacy Coach Clermont Middle School

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Date: January 10, 2013
Essential Question: How do I create an effective Instructional Focus Calendar to drive student
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Benchmark:
FL.CIM.2011
Objective: Learners will be able to identify the components of the FCIM process and identify elements of the task cards to identify critical information, review content, reflect on learning, and practice skills and strategies with students. Learners will working collaboratively to create an Instructional Focus Calendar.
Agenda:
Identify FCIM elements
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Review data support reports
See sample of an Instructional Focus Calendar
Vocabulary: FCIM, Instructional Focus Calendar, Bell ringers, Mini Assessments
Assignment
Work collaboratively and complete an Instructional Focus Calendar for February. Another planning session will be scheduled for next week.

3. Purpose for FCIM Focus Calendars:
Collaboratively creates a roadmap for teaching, re-teaching, and assessing targeted benchmarks during the academic school year.
Places focused instruction on the tested benchmarks while answering the following questions:
What do students need to know?
What do I need to teach them?
How much time do I need to do it?

4. Developing FCIM Focus Calendars
Determine areas of focus based on academic needs of whole class, course, and/or grade-level assessment data.
Map dates for a specific benchmark skill to be taught, re-taught, or reviewed.

5. Which specific skills do we map?
Select specific skills with the weakest performance data.
Prioritize by most highly tested benchmark skills using FCAT Content Assessed Reports.
Determine the order for specific skills to be re-taught/reviewed.
Prioritize by sequence of specific skills within benchmark cluster.
Map specific skills to calendar dates.
Allow sufficient time for introducing the skill, providing opportunities to practice the skill, and assessing the skill.

6. Curriculum Planning
Align curriculum with Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) and K-1 CCSS.
Identify most highly tested benchmarks.
Identify benchmarks with weakest student achievement data.
Prepare FCIM Focus Calendar.
Effective classrooms are data driven and benchmark focused.
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7. Quick Facts
Teaching and Learning have created Task Cards for the following areas:
Reading: Third Grade-Tenth Grade
Math: Third-Eight, Algebra, Geometry
Science: Fifth, Eighth, Biology
Civics, U.S. History
There is one task cards for every FCAT/EOC assessed benchmark.

8. How to locate documents you need?
X: Drive
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FCIM Planning Focus Sessions
FCIM Planning Focus Sessions
Blue Prints & maps
Data Chats
FCIM
Instructional Focus Calendars
Task Cards

9. Let’s review important items that will help you create your Instructional Focus Calendar:
Curriculum Blue Prints/Maps Task Cards Data Mini Assessments * Locate your subject area Task Card on the X: Drive. (administration is looking for an Instructional Focus Calendar for one class only).

10. What can I find on the task card?

11. Sample Reading Instructional Focus Calendar

13. Thank you for your time and attention!
Any Questions?