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Adolescent Literacy. Next Steps Drawings Evaluation. A Focus on English Language Arts. Next Steps. Please identify two specific things you learned today; project how will apply this learning in your practice. Share with a person near you. . NAEP . The “Nation’s Report Card”
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Adolescent Literacy Next Steps Drawings Evaluation A Focus on English Language Arts
Next Steps • Please identify two specific things you learned today; project how will apply this learning in your practice. Share with a person near you.
NAEP • The “Nation’s Report Card” • Congressionally mandated since 1969 • State assessments in selected subjects since 1990 • District-level results in selected subjects since 2002 (TUDA) • Survey of what students “know and can do” • Representative sample • No individual student scores reported • Grades 4, 8, and 12
NAEP • NAEP Reading Assessments • New Framework in 2009 • 2011 Reading Assessment – grades 4 and 8 • 2013 Reading Assessment – grades 4, 8, and 12 • Also in ELA area of the MPS Portal • Comparing old to new (see handout)
Comparing old to new (see handout) • CONTENT • COGNITIVE PROCESSES • VOCABULARY • PASSAGE SOURCE • PASSAGE LENGTH • PASSAGE SELECTION • ITEM TYPE
Common Core State Standards WRITING • Emphasizes three types of writing • Argumentative • Informational/Explanatory • Narrative *Descriptive writing is inherent in all three; at younger grade levels (K-3) more time should be spent focused on descriptive; in 4-12 it should be used as a review, to gather diagnostic information, and to review the traits, the writing process, and various modes
Common Core Standards WRITING • Blending types of writing • “Special Place” of Argument in the Standards • Argument and Persuasion (see PAGE 24)
Common Core Standards WRITING • All ELA Teachers, K-12 have had an overview of CCSS • Mediasite available in fall for review and new staff • NEXT STEPS: • Deconstruction – Loiusville Public Schools • Common Core Maps – Gates Foundation (link on portal) • Curriculum Mapping – New York City • Professional Development • Skills and Content - Process and Product • Process – Ongoing • Product – Tangible and Electronic
UPGRADING • How might you upgrade your current practice to get closer to the expectations of the CCSS (in depth, range, and grade-level expectations)? • The clearer the target—the better the result. • MPS PORTAL (mpsela)
UPGRADING • Professional Reading: • Writing Circles (Vopat) • Literature Circles (Daniels) • Inquiry Circles (Harvey and Daniels) • Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading (Daniels and Steineke Professional Development • WSRA – February, 2012
Next Steps • Please share at least two specific things you learned today with someone who is not here.
Identifying What Teachers Need • Knowledge • Dispositions • Performances • Fill • Will Skill
Where to Start for Teacher Change • Change in teachers’ attitudes and beliefs • Change in teacher practice • Change in student learning outcomes
Where to Start for Teacher Change • Change in teacher practice • Change in student learning outcomes • Change in teachers’ attitudes and beliefs -Guskey (2002)
DRAWINGS • Bare Books • Alterra • Boswell’s Books • Pastiche
Evaluation • Please complete and submit • Additional questions? • Address today • ballpl
