“CCLS for the High School Classroom.” Amy Chiarella and Chris Farino, NFS. This presentation will focus on practical, user-friendly information on the Common Core Standards, their origins/why they are with us now and where they will take educators from here. Reading strategies, lesson ideas and professional conversation around the CCLS will be shared. Participants will acquire a general knowledge base that will be applicable to secondary English classrooms.Bringing Words to Life: Beck, Kucan, McKeown; Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction, by Paul Bambrick-SantoyoCommon Core or Common Sense? “ Lucia Costello-Sanders, BPS ELA teacher, School #27. Participants will be expose to creative and practical approaches to incorporating the CCLS in the classroom. Review of the 6 instructional shifts and 4 strands. Discuss “backward planning” where assessment tools are created first by asking two Essential Questions. Develop a literary unit from the model. The Teacher Education Unit Faculty Development Retreat was sponsored by the Council of Deans, and held February 4, 2012, at Buffalo State College.
The Teacher Education Faculty Development Committee of Kathy Wood, John Siskar, Theresa Harris-Tigg, Pixita Del Prado Hill, Jing Zhang, Wendy McLeish and Leslie Day planned and organized the event. They were assisted by students Katie Sclafani, Devin Bartlett, Stephen Malone, and Danielle Tollar.
WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
- "A Conversation Across the Disciplines to Integrate Literacy into Middle & Secondary Classrooms.” Drs. Jevon Hunter and Pixita del Prado Hill. The instructors of EDU 416 look forward to collaborating with content area methods faculty through discussion of common goals for literacy instruction within the context of CCLS, working together to establish a common language for integrating literacy into the lesson planning process, and developing criteria for evaluating teacher candidates’ use of literacy in lessons.
A Conversation Across the Disciplines to Integrate Literacy into Middle & Secondary Classrooms; Review of Samples from EDU 416
- Common Core or Common Sense? “ Lucia Costello-Sanders, BPS ELA teacher, School #27. Participants will be expose to creative and practical approaches to incorporating the CCLS in the classroom. Review of the 6 instructional shifts and 4 strands. Discuss “backward planning” where assessment tools are created first by asking two Essential Questions. Develop a literary unit from the model.
- "Shifts in the Common Core learning Standards.” Anne Botticelli, Buffalo Public Schools. This break out session will take a more in depth look at the Instructional Shifts in Literacy, with specific attention paid to vocabulary instruction and text complexity.
30 Million Word Gap; Stahl - Vocabulary Development; Graves - Teaching Individual Words; Stanovich - Matthew Effect; Adams - Beginning to Read
- Bringing Words to Life: Beck, Kucan, McKeown; Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction, by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Vocabulogic; PARCC Content Frameworks; engageNY; Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project
- “CCLS for the High School Classroom.” Amy Chiarella and Chris Farino, NFS. This presentation will focus on practical, user-friendly information on the Common Core Standards, their origins/why they are with us now and where they will take educators from here. Reading strategies, lesson ideas and professional conversation around the CCLS will be shared. Participants will acquire a general knowledge base that will be applicable to secondary English classrooms.
- “Play with Engage NY!” Dr. Theresa Harris-Tigg, BSC English Dept. Participants will engage in a scavenger hunt of key components of the Engage NY website. IMPORTANT: To participate in this workshop you will need to bring your own laptop or I-Pad.
- “CCLS in Social Studies.” Ebony E. Bullock, BPS District Support Teacher in Social Studies and Ndezi Ndecki, BPS Curriculum Lead Teacher for Social Studies at East High School. This presentation will include a hands-on overview of the NYS Common Core Learning Standards in Social Studies. Participants will backward map one writing standard in order to see its progression and articulation vertically in K-12 grades. In addition, participants will get a chance to view exemplar CCLS unit plans.
CCLS in Social Studies
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“Wrapping Our Heads (and Instruction) around the CCLS." Mary E. Haggerty, Principal, Kaegebein Elementary. An activity based presentation that focuses on how the CCLS "shifts" map to Bloom's Taxonomy. Discussion of how that information impacts instructional planning. Participants will deconstruct a unit and lesson based on the CCLS.
Bloom's Taxonomy; Common Core Shifts; Common Core Unit; Common Core Lesson
Retreat Statistics:
138 attended.
Comments received:
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“This retreat was very informative. I really enjoyed all the lectures.”
95% agreed or strongly agreed that the retreat was beneficial.