Mississippi Leading

Chuck Poer, Cellie Scoggin, Julie Jordan, Nicole Cooley

Bailey Education Group

“I Can” Statements

Clustering and Pacing

Planning with Thematic Units

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Provides consistency across states Allows for equal access Prepares students to compete globally Allows for more focused professional

development Allows for the development of a common

assessment Provides the opportunity to compare and

evaluate policies that affect student achievement across states

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Provides consistency across YOUR DISTRICT Allows for equal access for students in YOUR

DISTRICT Prepares students to compete globally

◦ Culture change for YOUR DISTRICT Allows for continued focus on professional

development in YOUR DISTRICT Allows for the development of a common

assessment YOUR DISTRICT Provides the opportunity to compare and evaluate

policies that affect student achievement across YOUR DISTRICT

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In groups of 3-4, discuss where your district is with CCSS in your district.

Be prepared to share!

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Read and Discuss the Standard (Anchor and Grade Level Standard)

Discuss any important words: key terms such as vocabulary, key nouns, and key verbs within the standard.

Refer to the alignment document noting how the standard is addressed in the MS Frameworks. Discuss the gaps, rigor issues, etc.

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Discuss keys to creating sound “I Can Statements”:

Statements are clear and identify each goal necessary in order to master the standard—begin with the end in mind.Statements are brief and only contain the goals for one standard or just the components for one single goal.Statements are written in “student talk” rather than educational jargon.Statements can be used to record student progress and should be measurable, assessable, and achievable.Statements are scaffold and arranged in a logical progression.

Write and refine “I Can Statements” utilizing the Bloom’s documents.

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Rigor6. Evaluation

5. Synthesis

4. Analysis

3. Application

2. Comprehension

1. Knowledge/ Awareness

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

New Bloom’s Taxonomy

Relevance

Knowledge is less connected to realistic situations and has less apparent value beyond school

Knowledge is clearly connected to realistic situations and has value

beyond school

Knowledge in one

discipline

Apply in one

discipline

Apply across

disciplines

Apply to real-world predictable

situations

Apply to real-world unpredictable

situations

AdaptationDHigh Rigor – High Relevance(Emergency Room Doctor or

Auto Mechanic)

BLow Rigor – High Relevance

(Counting Change at McDonalds)

ALow Rigor – Low Relevance

(Spelling Tests)

CHigh Rigor – Low

Relevance(Reading Beowulf)

Creating

Evaluating

Analyzing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Determine in which 9 weeks the “I Can” statements should be introduced.

Determine in which 9 weeks the “I Can” statements should be assessed.

Determine in which 9 weeks the “I Can” statements should be ongoing.

“I Can” Statements

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An integrated Model of Literacy:CCSS asserts that it is an integrated model of

literacy. ◦ NOTHING should be taught NOR assessed in

isolation

Ensure that your “I Can” statements are being taught together AND assessed together to bridge the content areas.

Cluster Document

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Looking at the Cluster Documents, we decided to take teachers through pacing the clustered “I Can” statements weekly.

Remember that “I Can” statements are repeated for a certain week, thus the reason there are so many listed for each day.

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From the weekly planning documents, we created daily lesson plans.

Customized for the district!

Next: Thematic Units

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Involve a group of correlative activities that are designed around topics or themes and cross several areas of curriculum.

Provide and environment that fosters and encourages process learning and active involvement of all students

CCSS calls for the new standards to be taught within the context of a “content rich curriculum”

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1. Selecting a Theme

◦ Thematic units can be planned around a book theme, an author study, or any topic that has interest for young children.

Examples People Going Places, Animals Around the World,

American Adventures, Life Lessons, Water World, Transportation, Symbols and Signs, Seasons

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2. Identify the “I Can” statements students must master by the completion of the unit by looking at the Daily Planning Document

o After determining what needs to taught for the week(s) then begins the brainstorming process

o Teachers collaborating on how to teach those “I Can” statements across the curriculum

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3. Identify Text Materials and Resources◦ Materials

Literature- a variety of genres: fantasy, nursery rhymes, folktales, fables, poetry

Informational Selections- newspapers, articles, magazines, brochures, pamphlets, flyers, encyclopedias, maps, advertisements, dictionaries, booklets, recipes, how-to guides

Internet Resources/Technology-websites, computers

Audio/Visual- videos, filmstrips, books on tape Community Resources- guest speaker, field trips Instructional Television- PBS, ETV, Kids123TV

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4. Develop Activities to use throughout the unit that will build upon one another

◦ Each activity addresses at least one standard

◦ Activities for ELA and Math are progressive

◦ Center Activities will cover ELA, Math, Science, S.S.

◦ Determine whether an activity is more effective with whole class, small-group, or individual instruction (depends upon the difficulty of the reading selection, the nature of the activity, and the abilities and interests of the student)

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5. Develop culminating activities that will pull everything together

◦ By the end of the unit, we want students to be able to reflect on the overall learning process

◦ Relating stories, poems and songs to the theme

◦ Students will be able to write to communicate with one another and to express their ideas about the topics and experiences

◦ Students use the writing to connect to the world around them, to communicate their ideas and experiences, and to inform an audience

◦ Develop good listening and speaking skills to respond to what they have learned

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6. Devise appropriate and various means of assessing students throughout the unit

• Student self-assessment will help determine progress in learning and may include: checklists, journals, conferences, summaries, rubrics and written reflections

***Regardless of age and ability- the important point is that students are involved in assessing what they have learned!

◦ Formative Assessment#1 strategy for driving instruction in the classroom

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Thematic units provide opportunities for:

student engagement and motivation, reading, writing, and learning with a

purpose, involving children with immediate use of literacy as enjoyment and communication, and demonstrating the interdisciplinary

connections, the “Nature of Learning”

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In groups of 3-4, discuss where you need to go in implementation of CCSS.

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Wendy Gibson – Kindergarten Teacher

Jamie Rogers – Principal at Collins Elementary School

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Chuck Poer

Vice President

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Julie Jordan

Instructional Specialist

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Cellie Scoggin


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Nicole Cooley


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