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Session 4, December 2014 NTI

Designing Supplemental Writing Lessons Using Authentic Texts and Tasks

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After 3 Years, EL Middle School Students Are…

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A Legacy of Expeditionary Learning Schools

Field Memo:The Role of Research in CCLS

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Learning Targets

• I can develop responsive, supplemental, Common Core-aligned writing lessons to meet students’ needs.

Note: We are going to address this target in two sessions in this NTI. In the other session, we will discuss how to do this in more “traditional” ways.

• I can engage students with supplemental writing lessons based on materials accessed “in the field.”

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Venn Diagram Notecatcher

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How do you currently

incorporate museums and

other field trips, guest speakers,

and other “authentic” community-

based resources into lessons/units/

modules?

Community Engagement: Fieldwork and Experts

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As you watch the video:

•What are the differences between “fieldwork” and “fieldtrips?”•How can experts support students’ learning?•How can engaging students with experts and fieldwork impact their literacy development?

What Similarities Do You See?

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Critical Differences

Fieldtrips/Guest Speakers Fieldwork/Experts

• Supplemental to the learning. • Central to the learning.

• A “special event” or reward. • Often comes at the end.

• More common – perhaps several visits to the same place or person over the course of a longer unit or

study.

• Planning mostly focused on logistics.

• Planning focused on learning and logistics.

• Generic – the “host” or “guest” is in charge of the outcomes.

• Specific – the teacher(s) is/are in charge of the outcomes.

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Connect-Extend-Challenge

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“What Kids Learn from Experts”

• Page X in your Participant’s Notebook.

• Read, tracking your thinking: What connections do you make to the ideas in

the article? What new ideas or concepts extend your

thinking? What challenges your presuppositions or

beliefs?

• 15 minutes for reading and notetaking.

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Share with a New Shoulder Partner

• A different partner than you discussed the video with.

• Each partner should share at least one: Connection Extension Challenge

• About 4 minutes each.

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Mix Up Your Table

• Move around your table so that you are seated next to at least one new person (not the person you talked over the video with, or the person you discussed “What Kids Learn from Experts” with.)

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Choose a New Text

• Page X in your notebook – an excerpt from our new book Transformational Literacy.

• Page X in your notebook – Overview of Fieldwork.

• Read your chosen text, keeping track of your thinking using the Connect-Extend-Challenge notecatcher (10 mins).

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Share with Your Partner

• A general overview of what you read. Be sure to point out specific ideas that you found particularly powerful or intruiging.

• At least one connection, extension, and challenge.

• About 5 minutes each.

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Questions? Reactions?

• Yes, field “work” takes a different kind of planning!

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Fieldwork Planning Guide

• Page X in your notebook.

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We are Going to Plan Fieldwork!

• Remember the “needs” that the case study class had in relation to writing development:

Sentence development, variety. Use of graphics, headings, formatting. Audience awareness/formal tone.

• Goal of this next chunk of time is to actually visit the museum and think about how these needs could be addressed through “fieldwork.”

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Museum Exhibits are “Craft”

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Have Fun!

• Partner up and complete the Fieldwork Planning Form.

• Please be back in your seats in 40 mins.

• Be prepared to share your ideas with another pair.

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Pair-Share

• Welcome back!

• What creative juices did you get flowing?

• Share your thinking with another pair.

• 10 minutes (about 5 minutes each pair).

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Additional Resources

• Page X -- to support students in getting ready for fieldwork and experts.

• Page X – especially the first link – lots and lots of ideas for community resources and how to use them.

• Also, important curriculum update on page X in your notebook.

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Synthesize Your Thinking

• What ideas from this session do you want to remember?

• Capture your synthesis in your journal, page X in your notebook.

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Please Provide Feedback

• Use the link on the NTI page on EngageNY to let us know how we are doing.

• Thank you and happy holidays from the entire Expeditionary Learning team!

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