Instructional Coaching Training Great Bend—June 2015 Carol Panzer Southwest Plains Service Center

Introductions Helping teachers improve student learning 2

Teaching is an opportunity to band together with others who deny the common assumption that demographics determine destiny. Sean Mccomb 2014 National Teacher of the Year

Objectives for the Day Clarify vision of the IC PLCs Write norms for the PLC Dig deeper into CCRSS Tie district initiatives in to CCRSS Share resources to support Instructional Coaches Helping teachers improve student learning 4

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Helping teachers improve student learning 8 Professional Learning Communities: A Quick Review Shared Mission, Vision, Values, and Goals Collaborative teams focused on LEARNING (students and teachers) Collective inquiry (Best practice and current reality) Action orientation and experimentation Continuous improvement (student and teachers) RESULTS ORIENTED

Helping teachers improve student learning 9 Four Critical Questions What do we want each student to know? How will we know when each student has learned it? What will we do if a student has difficulties learning it? What will we do for the students who already know it? (This question was added after the publication of On Common Ground ) Whatever It Takes

Helping teachers improve student learning 10 From On Common Ground From isolation to collaboration: Frequent, continuous, and increasingly concrete and precise talk about teaching practice. Goals of collaboration focused on achievement (achievement that is documented by data) Recognition and celebration of superior practices and their results

PLCs are about.. Caring deeply about learning. Feeling free to take risks. Challenging each other and raising the expectations of everyone. Respecting and valuing perspectives other than their own by seeking and valuing every member’s input. Helping teachers improve student learning 11

Intentional in seeking to do the work better. Aggressive in continually building capacity of each member to work smarter. There should be some urgency in our drive to improve student learning. Helping teachers improve student learning 12

Creating Norms On separate pieces of paper write down 3-5 non-negotiables that you want to have as your PLC norms—independently (no discussion) With your colleagues, group the ideas Evaluate and synthesize ideas into 3-5 group norms. Helping teachers improve student learning 13

Guiding Questions for Team Norms Are we clear on the commitments we hae made to each other? Have we stated our commitments as explicit behaviors? Have we discussed how to address the issue if we feel someone is not honoring our norms? Do we have a plan to review the norms at the beginning and end of each meeting? Helping teachers improve student learning 14

PLC Report Suggested…Administrators will review Use it for a semester and then revise Show samples Create a Google Doc for agendas Helping teachers improve student learning 15

Paraphrase Passport Helping teachers improve student learning 16

College and Career Ready State Standards In small groups, create a K—W—L for your knowledge of CCRSS Why is it important for you as coaches to remain positive and informed about these standards? Helping teachers improve student learning 17

District Initiatives--Walk Through Student engagement Feedback/checks for understanding Technology Objectives posted Activity matches posted objectives Kagen Cooperative Learning—discuss Student Discussion Project/Problem-Based Learning Building Level Targets Helping teachers improve student learning 18

CCRSS Shifts Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction Helping teachers improve student learning 19

Appendix A—download or use paper copies Literacy Coaches need to read this thoroughly and refer to it frequently Text Complexity—Three parts and chart on page 8 Reading Foundational Skills K-5 (syllable types) Three types of writing Helping teachers improve student learning 20

Appendix A Speaking and Listening –See last paragraph page 27 Language—progressive skills (see page 31) Vocabulary—Tiers I, II, III Helping teachers improve student learning 21

Debate Team Carousal Groups of 4 by building The most important thing teachers can do to improve instruction for CCRSS is________because________. Helping teachers improve student learning 22

Review Webb’s DOK Helping teachers improve student learning 23

24 Depth of Knowledge Webb’s Depth of Knowledge levels: Recall and Reproduction: Level 1 Skills & Concepts: Level 2 Strategic Thinking: Level 3 Extended Thinking: Level 4

25 Extended Thinking: Level 4 DOK 4 requires high cognitive demand and is very complex. Students are expected to make connections—relate ideas within the content or among content areas—and have to select or devise one approach among many alternatives on how the situation can be solved. Due to the complexity of cognitive demand, DOK 4 often requires an extended period of time.

26 The Depth of Knowledge is NOT determined by the verb, but the context in which the verb is used and the depth of thinking required.

27 DOK 3- Describe a model that you might use to represent the relationships that exist within the rock cycle. (requires deep understanding of rock cycle and a determination of how best to represent it) DOK 2- Describe the difference between metamorphic and igneous rocks. (requires cognitive processing to determine the differences in the two rock types) DOK 1- Describe three characteristics of metamorphic rocks. (simple recall) Same verb—three DOK levels

Multidisciplinary Performance Task (MDPT) Helping teachers improve student learning 28

MDPT Your experience How does it fit with DOK4? What preparation did you have? What do you need? How can you support other teachers? Helping teachers improve student learning 29

Appendix B Helping teachers improve student learning 30

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Individual Plan Time Think of one teacher or grade level you will be working with. Select a familiar piece of literature. Plan an activity that fits one of the samples in Appendix B How are you including the district targets? Helping teachers improve student learning 32

Appendix C Helping teachers improve student learning 33

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Individual Plan Time Look at your appropriate grade level samples Consider the MDPT rubrics Consider the 6 Trait Rubrics Consider district targets On Demand or Writing Process Quick Writes to check for understanding –Exit Cards –21 –Debate Team Carousal –The 3-sentence Wrap-up (summary) Helping teachers improve student learning 37

Assessments Learn what assessments your teachers use Consider questions to ask about how the data is being used Plan how you can support the use of data to drive instruction Helping teachers improve student learning 38

Life-long Learners What are you reading for pleasure and relaxation? What are you reading professionally? What blogs do you read or who do you follow on Twitter? How important is it for you to stay current? 39

Resources College and Career Standards and Appendices A, B, C Newsela.com Readworks Engageny.org From Jennifer: 40 =1&terms=livejenander101&commit=Search

Questions In groups come up with one question you have about your role as an instructional coach. Helping teachers improve student learning 41