NTI Vets: Building a Core Proficiencies Sequence Implementing the CCSS with Fidelity EngageNY.org
Feb 04, 2016
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NTI Vets: Building a Core Proficiencies
SequenceImplementing the CCSS with Fidelity
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Purpose of this Session
• Participants will be able to: Explain the structure and features of the Making
Evidence-Based Claims units Explain how to incorporate multiple Core
Proficiencies Units into a semester-long curriculum plan
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Lenses for this Session
• How does the EBC unit for literary technique work? How do the pieces fit together?
• How can teachers build a curriculum that teaches all the core proficiencies?
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Orientation to the EBC Unit
• The process: Making Evidence-Based Claims Organizing Evidence-Based Claims Expressing Evidence-Based Claims
• The parts• The text• The tools• The assessments
Deep Dive into Making EBC About Literary Technique
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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Deep Dive into Making EBC about Literary Technique
• How are these standards explicitly taught over the course of the unit?
• What will you learn about student acquisition of this skill through the different assessment opportunities in this unit?
• What scaffolds are included in this unit to support students?
• How would teachers need to change current instructional approaches in order to implement this unit?
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Literature and the Instructional Shifts
• Read the following instructional shifts:4. Text-based answers
5. Writing from sources
• Discuss at your tables What do these shifts look like with literature? How do they look different than with non-
fiction? How do they look the same?
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EBC Units for Nonfiction vs. Literature
• Read the excerpts from the EBC units for literature and nonfiction.
• Annotate them, highlighting the differences we discussed.
• Discuss: What did you find? How might teachers need support in making
these distinctions?
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Customizing the Sequence
• With others from your site or someone at your grade level, discuss the suggested scope and sequence.
How would you integrate this sequence into an existing curriculum at your site or BOCES?
Would you follow this timeline, spread things out more?
• Capture the changes you’d make on your note catcher.
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Q & A
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Reflection
• NTI Members: What will you do to help teachers understand the
flow of the Core Proficiencies Units and how they are most effectively integrated into curriculum?
• Teachers: How will you begin teaching the skills in the Core
Proficiencies Units? Where will you start next year?