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GOAL #1 – Leadership
Master Schedule Development
Objectives:
- Know the purpose and benefits of a master schedule
- Identify different approaches to solving common scheduling obstacles
- Learn and practice methods for building a Master Schedule
Literacy Leadership Teams
Objectives:
- To recognize the importance of a leadership team in a literacy improvement initiative
- To identify the necessary roles of constructive literacy leadership team members
- To examine your own characteristics and identify how you can contribute to your leadership team
- To determine how your literacy leadership agenda fits among existing team configurations at your school
GOAL #2 – Program Implementation
The Reading Brain & Literacy Development
Objectives:
- Review how reading development links to instruction
- Learn new routines to target specific aspects of reading instruction with the goal of building students’ foundational skills to ultimately facilitate reading comprehension.
Small Group Skills Trace
Objectives:
- Understand the different purposes of small group differentiated instruction and needs-based intervention/extensions.
- Inventory programmatic components and pinpoint how they help us best situate students in small group differentiated instruction.
- Integrate core program structure through tracing whole group Tier 1 skills to small group differentiated plans.
Alignment and Coordination of Tier 1: Whole Group and Small Group Plans (WG-SG Template Development)
Objectives:
- Identify how the WG/SG template supports alignment and coordination across grade and school
- Explain the purpose of a WG/SG template
- Decide what Program components to deliver in Whole/Small group.
- Evaluate that these choices are aligned and coordinated across classes.
Linking Instruction, Routines and Resources for Differentiated Learning (Instructional Focus to Instructional Resources)
Objectives:
- Understand the research based “Big Ideas” for teaching reading
- Relate “Big Ideas” to instructional focus areas
- Match research supported instructional activities to your learners informed by data
- Identify materials or routines from your curriculum and prior training that address research supported principles
GOAL #3 – Professional Knowledge
Small Group Management
Objectives:
- To define small group instruction and how it provides differentiated learning
- To explain how to optimize student groups for differentiated instruction
- To explain how to effectively manage small group instruction through
- Process
- Content
- Environment
- Product
- To describe ways to establish clear expectations for classroom behaviors during small group time
- To explore ways to manage your time
Features of Effective Instruction
Objectives:
- To explain why effective instruction is especially important for children learning to read
- To identify the 4 main elements of effective instruction
- To describe what teachers can do to prepare for effective reading lessons (Cognitive Preparation / Planning)
- To describe best practices for introducing a lesson to students (“I do”)
- To describe best practices for engaging students in practice (“We do”)
- To describe best practices releasing students to independent practice (“You do”)
- To explain how to create effective routines using concise language and an appropriate teaching pace
GOAL #4 – Assessment
The Brain, Reading, and Assessments (Linking Literacy Development to Assessment)
Objectives:
- Discuss areas of the brain involved in Reading Development
- Link Reading Development to various Assessments
Types of Assessment
Objectives:
- Identify the difference between an “assessment” and a “test”
- Name the 4 general categories of assessments
- Evaluate an assessment to understand the purpose
- Identify when/where/how to use different assessments
Building an Assessment Framework
Objectives:
- Describe a process to:
- inventory existing assessments
- identify gaps and redundancies
- build a comprehensive framework
- Create a Decision Tree/Assessment Flow Chart to demonstrate how to make decisions based on assessment data
Reliability and Validity in Data Collection
Objectives:
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To distinguish between reliable and valid data
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Recognize the importance of reliable and valid data collection practices
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Identify three common errors preventing reliable data collection
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Explain how schools can increase the reliability of data collection before, during and after testing
Data Meeting Process and Tools
Objectives:
- Explain why we analyze student data
- Explain why we analyze student data
- Describe three elements to a Data Meeting
- Data Sources
- Analysis Tool(s)
- Data Meetings
- Identify what should happen before, during and after Data Meetings
- Identify tools you can use to organize data and meeting outcomes
Using Data and Research to Inform Differentiated Instruction (Data to Instructional Focus)
Objectives:
- Describe the research supported “Big Ideas” for teaching reading and how they relate to our instructional focus areas.
- Determine how data from your school/district informs these profiles.
- Use classroom reports to assign instructional profiles to every student.
- Identify the implications of instructional profiles to small group differentiated instruction and intervention.
Importance of Progress Monitoring
Objectives:
- Define Progress Monitoring
- Describe how using aimlines for Progress Monitoring helps to guide instructional decisions
- Explain how measuring and evaluating students at intervals can facilitate students’ reading achievement.
Aimlines to Instructional Focus
Objectives:
- Describe how and why we use aimlines to determine instructional focus areas
- Explain how progress monitoring aligns with the data cycle
- Explain when and how we use the two methods of data analysis (aimline and benchmark) to make instructional decisions during data meetings
- Analyze data to evaluate student progress and make decisions about next steps
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