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Welcome to What is LFS?

Agenda:IntroductionAnticipation Guide (LFS Strategy)What is Learning-Focused? (LEQ)

Word Map (Graphic Organizer)KUDS/Student Learning MapsLessonsStrategies Revisit Anticipation GuideGive One, Get One (LFS Strategy)Questions

Presented by Jennifer BowerSeaford Middle School

jbower@seaford.k12.de.us http://agi.seaford.k12.de.us/sites/jbower

Concept:

KUDs & SLMsConcept:

LessonsConcept:

StrategiesConcept:

Lesson EQ:

How is the KUD used to develop the Student Learning Map?

Lesson EQ:

What is the difference between an acquisition lesson and an extended thinking lesson?

How do assessment prompts impact learning and instruction?

Lesson EQ:

Why is it important to know what strategy to use and when to use it in an lesson?

Lesson EQ:

Vocabulary: Vocabulary:acquisition lessons, extended thinking lessons, assessments

Vocabulary:distributed summarizing activities, graphic organizers, word walls, collaborative pairs

Key Learning:

Unit EQ:

Topic: Learning Focused StrategiesStudent Learning Map

The Learning-Focused Strategies Model provides a planning framework that when implemented with quality transforms standards from “words in a document” into learning for all students.

How do I use the Learning-Focused Strategies planning framework to transform standards into learning?

Standards, essential questions, concepts

The Word

Learning-Focused Framework

What is it?(Write the definition)

What is it like?

What are some examples?

Word Map Outline 1: LFS

What is the Learning-Focused Strategies Model?

It is a model that provides a planning framework for thinking about, planning, and delivering instruction using exemplary practices with a focus on learning.

Goals:Continuous ImprovementConsistent and PervasiveQuality

Exemplary Practice #1

Collaborative Pairs

Learning Focused Solutions research states…

With your partner, which strategy is most important?

What should a lesson contain?*Acquisition lesson is used to teach a NEW concept/skill/knowledge in order to answer the LEQ.

*Activating strategies are used to activate or build background knowledge as well as to model/preview vocabulary, thinking strategies, and graphic organizers that may be new in the unit. Best planned after the teaching strategies.

*Graphic Organizers: You should have one in every lesson---not necessarily a new one. It can be an LFS graphic organizer or one you have created or found.

*Teaching Strategies: Instruction should be before the assessment prompt (distributed summarizing).Teach > Assessment prompt > Teach > Assessment

prompt > Teach > Assessment prompt … 2-4 extended thinking questions or activities should

be included in each lesson

*Summarizing: Should be distributed throughout the lesson—not just at the end! Key to knowing when and what to re-teach!

*Summarizing Strategies: should be written most of the time, not oral to answer the LEQ Ex: KWL, 3-2-1, $2.00 summary, learning logs, etc.

DevelopKUD

Develop SLM

For every Lesson Essential Question (LEQ)you should have an

Acquisition Lesson with 2-4 higher level extended thinking questions and/or activities

or an Extended Thinking Lesson (EMTS)

Top 8Extended Thinking

Strategies

Include 2-4 extended thinking activities

and/or questions in acquisition lesson to “extend” or transfer previously learned concepts,

skills, or knowledge.

AbstractingAnalyzing PerspectivesClassifying/CategorizingComparing/ContrastingConstructing SupportDeductive Reasoning

Error AnalysisInductive Reasoning

Quick reference created by Jennifer Bower, SMS ELA Teacher, and approved by Carol Gardner based on LFS by Max Thompson 8/28/2011

Common Core Standards

Key Learning

Unit EQ

Concepts

Vocabulary

Lesson Essential Question(s)

Suggested sequence for planning a unit with 2-4 extended thinking

questions/activities

1. KUD

2. SLM

3. Culminating Activity/Project

4. Rubric for Culminating Activity/Project

5. Student Assessments

6. Launch Activity

7. Acquisition Lesson Planning

8. Extending Thinking Activities

9. Differentiating the Unit

10.Lesson/Activity Sequence

11.Review and Revise

12.Resources and Timeline

For more details/examples refer to your Planning a Unit training book or

yourPlanning a Unit flipchart

Launch Activity

Extended Thinking Lesson (s)

EMTS(Each LFS unit should

have 2-3 extended thinking lessons)

Acquisition Lesson (s)

EATS

(include 2-4 extended thinking

questions or activities)

Diagnostic, formative, and

summative ASSESSMENTS—

Including Culminating

Activity

Focus is on the Unit

Essential Question

Once You Plan it, Deliver it

Created by Jennifer Bower, SMS ELA Teacher, and approved by Carol Gardner based on LFS by Max Thompson 8/28/2011

OR

Standards Know Understand Do Produce clear and coherent writing in

which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.

Draw evidence from literary or informational texts support analysis, reflection, and research.

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Genre

Poetry

Poet

sound devices (rhyme, rhythm, repetition, alliteration, onomateopoeia)

figurative language (metaphors, similes, personification)

sensory language (imagery)

line

stanza

narrative

lyric

concrete

haiku

limerick

inference

preview

Understand the purpose, elements, and meaning (themes) of different poetic forms.

Read and analyze a variety of poems.

Apply reading and context clues to ask questions to identify unfamiliar words.

Apply the reading skill of paraphrasing to reread and respond to literal and inferential questions.

Analyze literary elements.Build vocabulary by using prefixes and idioms.Identify simple and compound subjects.Identify poet's purpose.

Part 2:Identify subject compliments:direct and indirect objects. Poetry Slam: Write and present a poem.

HonorsSummative Project:Poetry Anthology

KUD for a Poetry Unit

Student Learning Maps

Student Learning Maps

Displayed in classroomA map that guides what students are

expected to know by the end of a unitReferred to often during instruction

Contains: ◦ Key Learning◦ Unit Essential Question◦ Concepts◦ Lesson Essentials Questions (Acquisition/Extended Thinking)◦ Vocabulary

6th Grade Student Learning Map

6th Grade Social Studies Student Learning Map (SLM)

Social Studies Student Learning Map

6th Grade ELA Student Learning Map (SLM)

6th Grade ScienceStudent Learning Map

LESSON FORMATS

Essential Question

Question

What do the students need to learn to be

able to answer the essential question?

Activating Strategy

Key vocabulary to

preview

Teaching Strategies

Graphic Organizer

•Instruction•Assessment prompt

•Instruction •Assessment prompt

Assignment

Summarizing Strategy

Acquisition Lesson Format : EATSUsed when introducing a new concept/topic

Essential Question

What do the students need

to know?

Mini Lesson

Review steps of using the

graphic organizer

Task

Extended Thinking

Strategies:

•comparing/contrasting•constructing support•inductive reasoning•deductive reasoning•abstracting•analyzing perspectives•error analysis•classifying

Sharing

Extended Thinking Lesson Format : EMTSUsed when you want to extend knowledge

Extended Thinking is the #1 strategy that positively impacts student learning

Subject Non-Examples Examples

Language Arts Who are the characters?What is the problem of the story

and how is it solved?

Describe the problem and solution in the story from the perspective of

one of the characters.Math Jack has a quarter, 4 dimes and

two nickels. How much money does he have?

Jack has 75 cents in his pocket. What different coins might he

have?Science List the steps in the scientific

method.Study Anna’s experiment. What

could she have done differently to get more valid results?

Social Studies What individual liberties are protected by the Bill of Rights?

Which amendment has the greatest impact on your life and

why?Art What techniques do artists use? How is an artist like an author?

Word Walls

ELA Word Wall

Science Word Wall

ELA Word Wall

ELA Word Wall

ELA Word Wall

ELA Word Wall

ELA Word Wall

Graphic

Organizers

Graphic Organizers

Frayer Diagram

Frayer Diagram

Summarizing Activity

Summarizing Activity

Summarizing Activity

LFS 7 Comprehension Strategies

What are the benefits for teachers?

Learning-Focused helps teachers make decisions about:

Deciding what to teach Using what you already know to teach your best Connecting and using the most important practices/strategies in every lesson Helping your administration observe and understand your professional

teaching practices Finding instructional time for higher level thinking activities/lessons Quickly assessing student learning Differentiating instruction easily Quickly building background knowledge and moving students from where

they are Accelerating learning (previewing) Integrating writing, reading comprehension, and higher level thinking Focusing on key vocabulary and good vocabulary strategies

Summarizing Activity

Give One, Get One (strategy)

Using your graphic organizer on the back, move around the room and give ideas and get ideas to build your knowledge.

What is learning focused?

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Additional Resources

What is Learning Focused?

QUESTIONS?