Prepared especially for the Secondary Professional Learning Network of

1. RIGOR with NURTURING Designing Assessment & Instruction for Concept-Centered Learning Prepared especially for the Secondary Professional Learning Network of PULASKI COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS by Dan Mulligan, Ed. D. August 2011

2. Premise of the Workshop As the United States continues to compete in a global  economy that demands innovation, the U.S. education system must equip students with the four Cs: • critical thinking and problem solving, • communication, • collaboration, and • creativity and innovation.

3. page 2 (in handout) Math 6 VA & US History Geometry U.S. History II

4. Self Reliance There are three types of baseball players--those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened. Tommy Lasorda teachers/administrators

5. 4 – second partner Please bring your handout with you.

6. page 10 Discuss with your new friend: How do you check for background knowledge and give each student a context for what they are about to learn? SAMPLE Pre-assessment that includes differentiation

7. HUNT for SOLUTIONS Record your responses on the POST-IT and the back of the last page…

8. At PULASKI County Public Schools: • 1. The percent of ALL students PASSING the WRITING SOL tests in 2011. • 2. The percent of BLACK students PASSINGthe WRITING SOL tests in 2011. • 3. The percent of ALL students ADVANCED on the US HISTORY II SOL test in 2010. • 4. The percent of ALL students ADVANCED on the US HISTORY II SOL test in 2011. • The percent of ALL students FAILING the WORLD HISTORY I SOL test in 2011. • The percent of BLACKstudents FAILING the WORLD HISTORY I SOL test in 2011. • 7. The percent of ALL students GRADUATING ON-TIME in the Class of 2011. • 8. The percent of BLACKstudents GRADUATING ON-TIME in the Class of 2011. 82 53 46 18 26 46 74 59 SOLUTIONS: 18, 26, 46, 46, 53, 59, 74, 82

9. NURTURING Rigor with Nurturing “Nurture denotes to supply with food, or to cause to grow. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care…”

10. The Power of Our Questions

11. page 4 – 6 QUESTIONS TO EXTEND THINKING Discuss with your new friend: In your PLC, when planning for learning, (how) do you identify questions to be used during the lesson that engage students in higher-order thinking?

12. Latoya and Kirk

13. Latoya and Kirk LaToya – 159 cm Silk – 108 cm • 42 • + 135 • 177 • 108 • 69 • 73 • 4 cm below Shoulder – 135 cm Counter – 73 cm Stool – 42 cm

17. RIGOR Rigor with Nurturing “Engagement that uses the MIND before using the HANDS”

18. Kinds of Evidence – Continuum of EvidenceInformal Check for Understanding

19. 1 4 Team Turn 2 3

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21. Learning By DoingWhen you realize that people learn naturally from the life they experience every day, it won’t surprise you that the brain is set up to learn better with active, hands-on endeavors. Many students request less bookwork and more hands-on activities. Students are more willing to do bookwork if there is a project or activity as part of the lesson. Building models and displays, fieldtrips and fieldwork, hands-on experiments, and craft activities are all strategies that help students learn.

22. STORYBOARD

23. BLINDSEQUENCING

26. The process of identifying and articulating similarities and differences among items. Comparing The process of grouping things into definable categories on the basis of their attributes. Classifying The process of identifying and articulating the underlying theme or general pattern in information. Creating Metaphors The process of identifying relationships between pairs of concepts (e.g., relationships between relationships). Creating Analogies What processes can students engage in to identify similarities and differences?

28. page 9 Hey…how have you been able to use this structure to get your students to think?

29. Use your BOUNCE Cardto ‘bounce’ your conversation up a notch to higher-order critical thinking page 7

30. WHO AM I ? To develop deeper critical thinking skills, each student must develop refined questioning strategies.

32. 4 – second partner Please bring your handout with you.

33. Making Engagement Manageable and Meaningful page 3

34. Graphic Organizers The integration of graphic organizers into the learning of every content area is now NON-NEGOTIABLE…

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36. VENN DIAGRAMS MAPS GLOBES

37. Organizing Student Thinking

38. page 16 & 17 Work with a friend to express a relationship using essential knowledge from your content area that can be expressed with a graphic organizer.

39. NURTURING Rigor with Nurturing “Nurture denotes to supply with food, or to cause to grow. To nurture is to train up with a fostering care…”

40. COUNT OFF at Your Table

42. Research Related to Teaching Reading Skills from Cognitive Science Premise: The meaning of a text is NOT contained in the words on the page. Instead, the reader constructs meaning by making what she thinks is a logical, sensible connection between the new information she reads and what she already knows about the topic. Read the paragraph on the next slide and work with your 4-second partner to fill in the missing words. ENJOY! (this is NOT a test)

43. The questions that p_____ face as they raise ch_____ from in_____ to adult life are not easy to an_____. Both fa_____ and m_____ can become concerned when health problems such as co_____ arise any time after the e_____ stage to later life. Experts recommend that young ch_____ should have plenty of s_____ and nutritious food for healthy growth. B_____ and g_____ should not share the same b_____ or even sleep in the same r_____. They may be afraid of the d_____.

44. The questions that poultrymen face as they raise chickens from incubation to adult life are not easy to answer. Both farmers and merchants can become concerned when health problems such as coccidiosis arise any time after the egg stage to later life. Experts recommend that young chicks should have plenty of sunshine and nutritious food for healthy growth. Banties and geese should not share the same barnyard or even sleep in the same roost. They may be afraid of the dark. ~Adapted from Madeline Hunter

45. Accuracy of Background Knowledge

49. Word: Military Intelligence Word: Migration Word: Prisoner Of War Word: Equal Rights

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