1. National Paideia Center The University of North Carolina 140 Friday Center Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27517 919.962.3128 www.paideia.org Welcome to the Common Core Standards and the Paideia Program 2012

2. www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128 Introductions Please share: Your name, your professional responsibilities. Your Literacy Self Assessment…

3. Your Literacy Self-Assess… What is your strength? What is your challenge? Reading Speaking Listening Writing www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

4. CCSS and the Paideia Project Training Objectives  To compare the demands of the CCSS and the Paideia Program  To practice planning a LDC-Paideia Module greater than the sum of its parts.  To deepen your understanding of the complementary relationship between the full range of literacy skills.

5. Your “Task” for Day One: After researching the Introduction to the Common Core State Standards on the values and structure of the standards, write an essay that identifies the problems involved in implementation and argues for a [LDC-Paideia] solution. Be sure to examine competing views. www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

6. Three-columns of … FACTSSKILLS UNDERSTANDING  What percentages do we currently teach?  What percentages would we teach? www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

7. Common Core Standards Return Great Ideas to the Curriculum Teach College-Ready Literacy Skills first and Content Second Common Core Literacy = Reading, Speaking, Listening, and Writing in Concert All of which = Critical Thinking!

8. www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128 Pre-Seminar Content: 1. Please examine the “Introduction” to the CCSS for ELA and Literacy in…note the various sections and topics. 2. Now read the Introduction slowly and begin filling in your graphic organizer as you read. 3. When you have finished, share briefly with a partner.

9. Post-Seminar Content: Aka Transition to Writing… 1. Return to your graphic organizer and fill in details that emerged during our seminar— focusing on details from the text clarified during the seminar. 2. Compose the first paragraph of your response to today’s task: “write an essay that identifies the problems involved in implementation and argues for a [LDC-Paideia] solution.” www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

10. We define… Thinking as the ability to explain and manipulate the variables of a text. (Roberts and Billings, 2008) www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

11. Skills >>>> Assessment Formative Assessment before Summative Assessment Skills before Content Speaking and Listening as well as Reading and Writing “SMARTER Balanced” Values and Goals www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

12. LDC-Paideia Modules An LDC “module” is a unit of study that starts with a “template task” that has the CCSS literacy standards hardwired in. Teachers then put in their own subject-area content. Each LDC-Paideia module stresses the CCSS speaking & listening standards in addition to reading & writing. Module = Task, Skills, Instruction, Results www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

13. P. Projects as Modules  Stress the writing process & written product  Build the writing process on the seminar discussion  Bring a culture of rigor through practice to an instructional unit  Stress authentic publication for an authentic audience (i.e. “extension”) www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

14. Didactic Instruction Student Learning Outcomes: recall of facts vocabulary, names, dates, places Instructional Method: Lecture-Video Use graphic organizers, memory games, specialized software www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

15. Intellectual Coaching www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128 Student Learning Outcomes: develop skills reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking Instructional Method: Demonstrate give feedback corrective and supportive

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17. How to Read a Book: Two types of Reading… Reading Challenge Texts Successfully  What is your Inspectional Reading Strategy?  What is your Analytical Reading Strategy? www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

18. Homework… Day One Write the first draft of your essay response to the Participant Task. Write at least two to three paragraphs. For Day Two, bring with you all the materials you will need to help you compose an LDC- Paideia module that you will use with your teachers (or their students). www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

20. Types of thinking… Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom Revised  KnowledgeRemember  ComprehensionUnderstand  ApplicationApply  AnalysisAnalyze  SynthesisEvaluate  EvaluationCreate www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

21. Instructional Components  Ideas and Values  Seminar Text(s)  Task Assignment  Written Product and Summative Assessment www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

22. Mini-Task Components  Reading Strategies  Seminar Text and Plan  Writing Process: Product and Audience www.paideia.org National Paideia Center 919.962.3128

23. Want more? www.paideia.org For materials to download troberts@northcarolina.edu...