Review

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Review

• Are You an Orange? Are Your Students Number
  People or Letter People?
• Instruction and Assessment shouldnt be One Size
  fits all
• Respectful of Students Interests and Strenghts
• Menus not mandates

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Equitable Design in Instruction and Assessment

• CogAT Tic-Tac-Toe as a design tool

V Love to talk and write about what they are
learning
Q Love abstract reasoning, games and puzzles
N Love drawing, visual and mechanical arts
Develop a set of rules for doing
Develop a movie script that
Draw a poster that
Write a different ending to
Develop a game that
Develop a map that
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Shift to Activities That Engage Students

• the most immediate and pressing issue for
  students and teachers is not low achievement but
  student disengagement Alfie Kohn in The Schools
  Our Children Deserve

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Reason I work hard is because my teacher
encourages me
Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University
Minority Student Achievement Network
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Academic Engagement

• Nobody is Hooked on Phonics
• What Fraction is larger 4/11 or 5/13?
• The Con----Children who are not proficient must
  go back to covering the basics before they
  attempt the fancy stuff
• Graduate schoolthey saved all the good stuff
  till then

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Robert Marzano in The Art and Science of Teaching
says..

• the quality of relationships teachers have with
  students is the keystone of effective management
  and perhaps even the entirety of teaching

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Emotional EngagementThe reason I work hard is
because my teacher demands it
Ferguson, R., (2001) Harvard University
Minority Student Achievement Network
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The Culture of Achievement
The popularity of white students increases as
their grades increase. For black and Hispanic
students, there is a drop off in popularity for
those with higher GPAs.
Black/Hispanic Popularity
White Popularity
Note A grade of 1.0D 4.0A
Source Fryer, R. G. (Winter 2006). Education
Next. Calculations from National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent Health data
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What HS Dropouts Can Teach Us
Civic Enterprises-Gates Foundation 2006
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Grading Joe

• Joes Grades
• 80
• 80
• Missing Whats
  his final Grade?
• 70 90
  A
• 80 80
  B
• 90 70
  C
• Missing 60
  D
• Missing
• 90
• 100

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Billy

• One Super-Duper Power Standard
• Know Whos Boss
• Know Your letters!

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Illiteracy is the Elephant in the Classroom

• Looking for Qs
• USA Today reports 1 in 5 HS graduates cant read
  their diploma
• NAEP results 8.7 Million students below grade
  level in reading
• Coalition for Juvenile Justice reports 1/3 of
  offenders (median age 15) read below 4th grade

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Literacy

• 50 percent of adults cannot read a book written
  at an eighth grade level.
• 20 percent of Americans are functionally
  illiterate and read below a 5th grade level.
• Approximately 50 percent of Americans read so
  poorly that they are unable to perform simple
  tasks such as balancing a checkbook and reading
  prescription drug labels.

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Reading Levels Defined And Demonstrated

• Independent reading level 90 Pupil can read
  with ease and without the help or guidance of a
  teacher, They can answer four or five correct
  answers (out of five test questions) and can read
  with rhythm, with a conversational tone, and can
  interpret punctuation correctly. Instructional
  reading level 80-90 Pupil can profit from
  instruction. They answer three out of five test
  questions correctly. Frustrated reading levellt
  80 Pupil gets two or below out of five test
  questions. They show symptoms or behavior of
  withdrawing from reading situations and commit
  multiple types of errors in oral reading.

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Reading Passage

• The Blimbat (80)
• My tmloydn and I were standing in line to buy
  xtlofms for the Blimbat. Finally, there was only
  one puvdrm between us and the xtlofm tmnutzq.
  This puvdrm made a big ampler on me. There were
  eight utzs all probably ord the age of 12. You
  could tell tures did not have a lot of willen.
  Their pard weer not yanker, but tures were clean.
  The utzs were well-behaved, all of them standing
  in line, two-by-two zors their potent holding
  zibits. Tures were telly temering about the
  plums, fonts, and other yoks tures would wint
  that noster.

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Reading Test

• RETELL
• Tell me everything you remember that you just
  read.
• Comprehension Questions
• What is the setting?
• Who was excited?
• Why were they excited?
• What impressed the narrator of the story?
• What do you think is the age of the narrator?
  Why?

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Reading Passage

• The Circus (97)
• My tmloydn and I were standing in line to buy
  tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only
  one family between us and the ticket counter.
  This family made a big impression on me. There
  were eight kids, all probably under the age of
  12. You could tell they did not have a lot of
  money. Their pard were not yanker, but they were
  clean. The kids were well-behaved, all of them
  standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents
  holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering
  about the clowns, animals, and other acts they
  would see that night.

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Too Many Students That Go To College Do Not
Finish
Source U.S. DOE, NCES, 1995-96 Beginning
Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, Second
Follow-Up (BPS 96/01) in U.S. DOE, NCES,
Descriptive Summary of 1995-96 Beginning
Postsecondary Students Six Years Later. Table
7-6 on page 163.
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Time Matters
Source Reeves, D. B. (2006). High Impact
Learning. Corwin Press.
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An Elementary Schedule

• 910-1145 Literacy
• 1145-1245 Lunch
• 1245-105 SSR
• 105-140 Specials
• 140-330 Math

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High School Schedule

• English
• Science 1
• Social Studies 1
• Math
• Elective 1--- Applied Literacy
• Elective 2
• grades 9 and 10 electives for Applied Literacy
  (USA Today). Have Academic 1 science for freshman
  and Academic 2 science for sophomores.

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