“Charting the Course Together” Implementing the Common Core State Standards -Mathematics- Middle School Leadership Teams February 6, 2014

Warm Up You will have 1 minute to continuously write down everything you think, know, and wonder about…….. Formative Assessment Stand up, Hand Up, Pair Up

Understand that formative assessment is a cycle and how it can be purposefully planned into instruction Analyze a lesson plan and a video of a Sac City colleague for the purpose of identifying how a well planned lesson supports the implementation of formative assessment in practice Collaboratively create and share a chunk of a lesson incorporating the formative assessment cycle and EL and UDL specific strategies Outcomes

Survey Time!!!!! After completing the survey, please sign up for either the EL or UDL break-out session

Backward Design Process Stage 1 Identify Desired Results as Determined by the Standards (Content & SMP) Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence [Assessment] Reflective of the Standards Stage 3 Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction Aligned to the Standards

Before Unit During Unit Stage 1 -Build a deep understanding of the expectations and coherence of the standards (content and practice) Stage 2 -Determine how to gather evidence to assess mastery of the Unit as a whole (End of Unit Assessment) Stage 3 -Determine a logical sequence of lessons Stage 1 -Identify the relation between the specific learning outcome and the standard(s) Stage 2 -Determine what evidence will be gathered to assess mastery of desired learning outcome Stage 3 -Plan and implement instruction to gather desired evidence and use it formatively Backwards Design in Practice

Using the Textbook as a Resource Starting From your Textbook… Stage 1Stage 2Stage 3 The book groups the standards together in a unit for you There are progress assessments and unit assessments for every unit There are lesson plans that are already chunked for you by various tasks

The Formative Assessment Cycle Prompt/ Question Student Action Student Response Gather Evidence & Provide Feedback Revise or Extend Thinking or Move On

Understanding the Template

Analyzing the Lesson Plan Part 1 Look at top part only first: objective, standard, and task If you are in quadrant 1 or 2: Read the standard and the lesson objective. Identify what part of the standard is being addressed by the objective. If you are a 3 or a 4: Read the lesson objective and look at the target task. Be prepared to discuss the following question: “If a student can do this task, have they met the lesson objective?”

The Formative Assessment Cycle Prompt/ Question Student Action Student Response Gather Evidence & Provide Feedback Revise or Extend Thinking or Move On

Analyzing Lesson Chunk 1 3. What is the Goal of this Chunk? How do the questions/ prompts relate this goal? (cycle 1) 4. What actions are the students going to be expected to perform (think/write time? work individually/ partners/ groups? how are they going to be expected to respond? Etc.) (cycle 2 and 3) 1. How is the teacher going to collect evidence? What are some possible misconceptions that she might encounter? (Cycle 3 and 4) 2. What would you consider as acceptable evidence that would say it is ok to move on? What might the teacher do if a few, some, most, or all of her students don’t meet the learning goal for this chunk? (cycle 4 and 5)

Analyzing Lesson Chunk 2 2. What is the Goal of this Chunk? How do the questions/ prompts relate this goal? (cycle 1) 3. What actions are the students going to be expected to perform (think/write time? work individually/ partners/ groups? how are they going to be expected to respond? Etc.) (cycle 2 and 3) 4. How is the teacher going to collect evidence? What are some possible misconceptions that she might encounter? (Cycle 3 and 4) 1. What would you consider as acceptable evidence that would say it is ok to move on? What might the teacher do if a few, some, most, or all of her students don’t meet the learning goal for this chunk? (cycle 4 and 5)

Analyzing Video Chunk 2 As you watch the video please consider and be prepared to discuss 2 questions: 1.Where does the lesson plan show up in the video? 2.What do you notice that she does in the video that doesn’t show up in the plan? Why do you think she made these changes? 3.Make a list of questions that you have for Gretchen based on what you just watched

Analyzing the Lesson Chunks (3 and 4) Each quadrant of your table should choose 1 of the 4 cycles from chunks 3 and 4 and do the following: Quickly identify the parts of the cycle Identify 1 component of the cycle that you want to share out with your group. This could be a question, a protocol, an instructional strategy, etc..

Creating Your Own Lesson Chunk 5 Quadrant 1 partner with 4 and Quadrant 2 partner with 3 Given the goal of this lesson chunk, take 10 minutes to collaboratively plan how you would teach this chunk using the formative assessment cycle

Analyzing Video Chunk 5 As you watch the video please consider and be prepared to discuss 3 questions: 1.Where does the lesson plan show up in the video? 2.What do you notice that she does in the video that doesn’t show up in the plan? Why do you think she made these changes? 3.Make a list of questions that you have for Gretchen based on what you just watched

Analyzing Student Work Quadrant 1 pair with Quadrant 2 Quadrant 3 pair with Quadrant 4 -Go through each piece of student work and write down one comment -As a group, discuss what the evidence reveals about student learning and what you think Gretchen’s next steps should be

Time for Collaborative Planning Identify a lesson that you are going to be teaching tomorrow or next week Your goal: plan at least one full chunk of the lesson using the formative assessment cycle You will have a chance to share this chunk and receive feedback from another group of teachers later today

Lunch 12:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Time for Collaborative Share Out Find a group of teachers from another school site Identify who will share first Group talks through their chunk completely before any feedback is given Feedback is constructive Is the cycle clear? Positive(s) I wonder(s) Switch and repeat

Personal Reflection One idea that interests me as an instructional leader is… Something I’d like to try … One step I can take in the near future is …I wonder …