1. WELCOME BACK! Superintendent’s Conference Day August 28, 2013

2. Welcome Welcome Christen VisceglieWelcome Christen Visceglie Celebrations…Celebrations… Stories to share…Stories to share…

3. Agenda Follow up on Summer WorkshopFollow up on Summer Workshop Common Core & Questioning TechniquesCommon Core & Questioning Techniques Sharing Strategies based on Best Practice & The Rubric: Technology & Differentiated InstructionSharing Strategies based on Best Practice & The Rubric: Technology & Differentiated Instruction (Natalia, Lianne, Araceli) (Natalia, Lianne, Araceli)

4. Integrated Performance Assessments

5. Common Core State Standards KEY CONSIDERATIONS Students come to understand other perspectives and cultures. Students appreciate that the twenty-first-century classroom and workplace are settings in which people from often widely divergent cultures and who represent diverse experiences and perspectives must learn and work together. Students actively seek to understand other perspectives and cultures through reading and listening, and they are able to communicate effectively with people of varied backgrounds. They evaluate other points of view critically and constructively. Through reading informational texts and great classic and contemporary works of literature representative of a variety of periods, cultures, and worldviews, students can vicariously inhabit worlds and have experiences much different than their own.

6. Common Core State Standards What instructional practices support CCSS?What instructional practices support CCSS? –Assessments (authentic, multi-faceted tasks that require inference, citing evidence, integrating data from several resources, writing to inform, argue or evaluate, i.e. Integrated Performance Tasks) –Balance of informational and literary texts –Lessons that target literacy; reading skills and writing skills that increase in difficulty

7. What are the shifts in World Languages? Provide challenging texts: “authentic” texts (created for native speakers) are a rich source of current language and culture Teach reading comprehension strategies--how to dig into a text and read to find deeper meaning Design writing and speaking tasks that require students to evaluate and integrate evidence gleaned from multiple sources (audio, video, & print media) Design written and oral tasks that require students to advance an argument (persuasion) or explain or shed light on a topic (explanatory)

8. What would a World Language Common Core-Aligned exam look like? Instead of isolated, discrete listening and reading passages Speaking and writing tasks that require students to use textual evidence from listening and reading texts to support an argument or expound on a topic Reading tasks and questions that require students to dig deeper for meaning, including more inferential and analytical questions Instead of factual who?, what?, when?, how? questions In addition to authentic documents, schedules, tickets, ads, etc. Reading and listening to multi- media sources that are culturally rich and instructive Frequent feedback on performance assessments based on rubrics aligned to WL & CC Standards In addition to numeric grades

9. Common Core Reading Questions Main Idea Inference Citing evidence Supporting an idea or argument Analyzing text Determining meaning of words from context Tone & Style (studyisland.com and engageny have many sample passages and questions for each type)

11. Common Core Sample test item Making Inferences, Citing Evidence, Arguing a point Proof ForProof Against The origin of coffee is definitely Ethiopia. The goatherd named Kaldi planted the first coffee seeds in Abyssinia. The origin of coffee is still unknown but the legend of the goatherd is the mostly likely explanation.

12. Common Core Sample test item Using the question stems on the handout, Reading Comprehension Question Types, let’s try writing another question for main idea or inference or another type for this passage. First let’s look at some more examples together...

13. Common Core Sample test item Question for main idea: Which is the best title for the passage? A. Why you shouldn’t drink coffee B. How goats can lead us to drink C. Fathers and sons and farming in Ethiopia D. Kaldi and the lost legend of Ethiopian food

14. Common Core Sample test item Question for inference: It can be inferred that… 1-Goats are more like humans than other animals 2-Ethiopian coffee is better than any other coffee 3-Coffee is a popular and desirable product 4-Kaldi was wasting his life away as an artist

15. Common Core Sample test item The author implies that Kaldi felt the trees had super powers because… 1- 2- 3- 4-

16. Edcanvas commercial break

17. Technology Access to platforms (Edcanvas, Glogster, Voki) Ideas from Natalia & Lianne

18. Differentiated Instruction Learning Style Surveys Ideas from Araceli & Lianne