WELCOME

6-8 Language Arts Instructional Facilitators

October 15, 2009

Meet and Greet

• Please choose one statement from the list that you strongly agree or strongly disagree with

• Think about your strongest writing influence

• Tell your partner how your writing influence impacts your belief or non-belief in the statement

Entrance Slip

• Take a 3x5 card and write down 3 reasons why it is beneficial to students and/or teachers to use Entrance and/or Exit slips in the classroom

• These will be collected

“What is Your Most Compelling Reason for Teaching

Grammar?”

• Write a quick summary of the article in the space provided.

Summaries

When we ask students to summarize what do they usually do?

• they write down everything • they write down next to nothing • they write way too much • they don't write enough • they copy word for word

Summaries

What do we want them to do?• pull out main ideas • focus on key details • use key words and phrases • break down the larger ideas • write only enough to convey the gist

Cornell Notes

• Developed by Walter Pauk, a professor at Cornell University

• Many variations on the theme• Combination notes include the use

of pictures and diagrams in the right column in addition to words

• SS IF’s are focusing on Cornell Notes

Classroom Assessments

Common Assessments

District Level Assessments

External Assessments

Most Formative

More Formative More Summative

Most Summative

Ongoing Student and

Teacher Assessments

Collaboratively Developed

and Curriculum Imbedded

Identify Groups of At-Risk Students

Ranks and Benchmarks

Student self-assessment

Teacher observations

Anecdotal notesOne-on-one

conferencing

Baseline sampleCommon Literacy

AssignmentsIn progress

assignmentsEnd of unit

assignments

On-demand writing

District work sample

State Writing Assessment

Daily Weekly Unit Monthly Semester Annual

Year-long Plan

• Writing Focus• SIP Goal• Data Collection Points

• Classroom• School-wide

Something to think about…

Facilitation Skill

Dyad Protocol• See handout• Three minutes per person to talk

about:• How you presented your Sept material• 2 things that went well in that presentation• 1 thing you’d like to change for this month

Please note guidelines!

Announcements

• Continued work on Writing Resource Binders – please sign up

• Marketplace Money Essay Contest

• Next meeting is January 14th

– WTL strategy = Storyline– Content Topic = Literary Analysis