1. Creating Strategic Lessons and Unit Plans
TCSS
Middle and High School Teachers
July 1-2, 2013

2. Structure for the Training
Day One
Strategic Teaching Review/Overview
Discussion of changes needed for planning of CCRS
Analysis of a lesson: strategic, differentiated, CCRS
Collaborative creation of a strategic lesson using CCRS and differentiation
Day Two
Identification of differences between units and lessons
Analysis of Strategic Teaching and CCRS elements from various discipline video clips
Collaboration to create units and lessons with CCRS

3.
Scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – vid= 1 min, 13 sec

4. Strategic Teaching Review/Overview
Essential Question: How can we utilize strategic teaching practices in order to increase student engagement?

5. THERE ARE FIVE COMPONENTS OF STRATEGIC TEACHING.
AU Regional ARI Team 2011
Review Components – do chart on wall

6. ONE Learning Outcome
Decide what it is the students will be able to do TODAY as a result of this lesson. State the outcome in student friendly terms.
“The first step to determining an outcome is to examine the course of study objective standard for the particular subject.
Next, look for the accompanying objectives.
Most importantly, decide on the daily outcome that will help students meet the standard.
Finally, think about the verb used in the daily outcome and determine what assessment will clearly support mastery of this outcome.” 6

7. Two Instructional Practices in Every Lesson
1. Chunking
2. Student Discussions

8. THREE Parts to a Strategic Lesson
Before
During
After
“Just as you should eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day – each lesson should have three parts. Before sets the stage for the lesson, during enables students to engage in the text, and after provides opportunities to make connections and assess if the outcome of the lesson has been met. Strong, seamless connections among the three parts of a lesson are imperative.”

9. FOUR Steps to Explicit Instruction
I Do
We Do
Y’all Do
The fourth ingredient for healthy literacy is the use of explicit instruction. The teacher models the skill and strategy (I Do). Then, the teacher and the students practice the skill and the strategy as a group (We Do). Next, the students work together using the skill/strategy (Y’all Do). After the teacher is sure the students can use the skill/strategy independently, then the students do so independently (I Do). These four ingredients in explicit instruction will provide gradual release of responsibility of the learning and should be done sequentially.
You Do
Self

10. FIVE Components of Active Literacy
“Five ingredients for active literacy are needed for healthy learning. Every day, students should be given opportunities to talk with each other, listen to each other, read and write in meaningful ways, and investigate content.”

11. Changes in Planning for CCRS
Essential Question: How do we determine and implement the changes that may be needed for our beginning of ELA/Content Literacy CCRS and continuation of Math CCRS?
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Common Core Intro vid for Secondary
Vid = 14 min, 14 sec

12. Before
T-Chart
What changes in planning are necessary for creating units and lessons using the new CCRS?
What changes in instructional strategies are necessary for creating units and lessons using the new CCRS?
Small group and then write on chart paper on wall

13. During Chunking/Turn and Talk
I do/We Do/Y’all Do: Watch video of 48-minute lesson, analyzing time management, student engagement, rigor, and assessment strategies.
Gonnering’s video & ST chart for observations

14. After
In small discipline groups, create a strategic lesson in the format provided, making sure that all five components are included.
Present lessons to the large group.
Strategic Teaching Lesson Plan with Strategies Sheet

15. During
I do/We do/Y’all Do: Watch video clips of specific disciplines, analyzing Strategic Teaching and CCRS elements.
Whole Brain Teaching Vid – Math
Part of reading lesson in HS science classroom
Part of lesson in cylinders, cones, spheres in MS math classroom
AP World History partial lesson in HS SS
During part of Reading/Writing connection lesson in US History

16. Day Two
Essential Question: How can we create and implement units and lesson plans that follow the new CCRS and utilize strategic teaching practices?

17. Before
Compare a unit with a daily lesson. How are units created? What components make up units?
T-Chart

18. During
In small discipline groups, use unit format to create a common unit, including lessons, integrating CCRS and Strategic Teaching.

19. After
Share the final unit product and process used, identifying standards, essential questions, and strategic teaching components included.
Identify one lesson from the unit to share in detail with the whole group.

20. What’s Next?