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Transcript of CONNECT-ED PHASE II TRAIN the TRAINERS WORKSHOPS 2/18/09 & 2/25/09.
CONNECT-ED
PHASE II
TRAIN the TRAINERS WORKSHOPS
2/18/09 & 2/25/09
What is Train the Trainers?
Why do we have it?
How does it fit into Phase II?
Who are YOU?
CONNECT-ED (C-E) Phase II: Collaborative Professional Learning
Organized Around the Big Ideas in Science and Mathematics
Electives
Leadership Development thru
PLC training
Guide larger grp in each district to address district
priorities
Train the Trainers Program
More teachers design BIMs
Apply “Big Ideas Thinking” to Apply “Big Ideas Thinking” to classroom instruction and district-classroom instruction and district-wide K-12 science/math programswide K-12 science/math programs
Funding-
District
Grants
BIMs
CONNECT-EDProfessional Development in Science and Mathematics
CONNECT-EDProfessional Development in Science and Mathematics
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Individual pieces….
Some not covered…Teachers “dreaming” of connections….
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Dis-Connections…
Coherence:
“Being logically or aesthetically consistent,
with all separate parts fitting together
to form a harmonious or credible whole."
CONNECT-EDProfessional Development in Science and Mathematics
“Big Idea Modules”
• Elementary, Middle and High School lessons that build content through the day
• Full day workshops where teachers experience this series of selected lessons from different grade levels
• Designers of BIM present them and provide their different grade level perspective
• Scientist/ mathematician help content learning and consider connections to real world
• In a series of BIMs, discuss horizontal and vertical connections
CONNECT-EDProfessional Development in Science and Mathematics
J. Lemasney Rider OIT
CONNECT-ED & “How People Learn”
1. Engage Prior Understandings
-Know about prior learning and how their piece fits into the bigger K-12 curriculum
-Consider prior knowledge & misconceptions
2. Essential Role of Factual Knowledge and Conceptual Understandings
-Organizes concepts in the context of Big Ideas
-Show connections between concepts and between Big Ideas
3. Importance of Self-Monitoring
-Reflection on learning
-Identify additional information needed
Brandsford et al. (2000)
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Result:
Teachers help students consider basic concepts in big picture context.
Evaluation:
“It is unusual to see gains [in content knowledge] as deep and broadly distributed as those from [the summer
institute].” (EDC 2004 evaluation) ________________________
Program’s strengths include: focus on engaging numerous partners in very intentional ways, recruiting diverse
perspectives (ES, MS, HS, administration, science/math specialists) for design teams and in participant populations, and guiding teams to succeed in producing and presenting
BIMs. (TCC 2006 Evaluation)
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“The next generation of standards and curricula at both the national and state levels
should be structured to identify a few core ideas in a discipline
and elaborate on how those ideas can be grown in a cumulative manner over grades K-8.”
Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in K-8. (2006). National Research Council (NRC). www.nap.edu
________________________________________
“The Science Anchors initiative is a new NSTA project
that seeks to help bolster student achievement in science by identifying a smaller set of core science concepts, or anchors,
that can serve as the new national science framework.” NSTA Express, March 2007.CONNECT-ED
Professional Development in Science and Mathematics
“Teachers who understand the Big Ideas of mathematics translate that to their teaching practices by consistently
connecting new ideas to Big Ideas and by reinforcing Big Ideas throughout teaching.
….. effective teachers know how Big Ideas connect topics across grades; they know the
concepts and skills developed at each grade and how those connect to previous and
subsequent grades.”
Big ideas & Understandings as the foundation for Elementary & Middle School Mathematics, Charles, 2005,
NCSM journal v. 8, n. 1
“An approach that focuses on a small number of significant mathematical “targets” for each grade
level offers a way of thinking about what is important in school mathematics…”
______________________________
“Organizing a curriculum around these described focal points….
can provide students with a connected, coherent, ever expanding body
of mathematical knowledge and ways of thinking.”
Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics: A Quest for Coherence. (2006). The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc. Reston, VA. www.nctm.org.
CONNECT-EDProfessional Development in Science and Mathematics
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AAAS Project 2061
Atlas of Science Literacy
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Use resources available to guide:
NJ CCCS’s
AAAS Atlases of Science Literacy
NCTM’s Curriculum Focal Points
District scope/sequence
STC & STC/MS FERA Learning CycleFocus
Getting started
ExploreInquiry
Reflect
Reflect on what you’ve learned
Apply Readers & extensions
© NSRC
FOCUS: Investigate & clarify ideas learners already have
EXPLORE: Engage in the phenomena to be investigated
REFLECT: Discuss observations & reconcile new ideas w/ prior knowledge
APPLY: Discuss and apply new ideas in new situations
This training:
Merger of 2 different approaches….
-the 6-hr “Standard” BIMs
&
-Modified model for undergrads
Common Language
Big Idea Module -
Strand -
Big Idea -
Benchmark/Standard -
BIM Focus -
FERA -
How can “How can “standardstandard” ” BIM design process BIM design process be adapted so that be adapted so that more people can more people can
experience it?experience it?
An example: An example: Pre-service Elementary TeachersPre-service Elementary Teachers
Reasons for the need for adjustment:Reasons for the need for adjustment: When they become teachers, they will be When they become teachers, they will be
teaching grades K – 5 teaching grades K – 5 Did not have the time for to prepare or share Did not have the time for to prepare or share
a six hour BIMa six hour BIM Pre-service teachers have limited experiencePre-service teachers have limited experience Minimal familiarity with curriculumMinimal familiarity with curriculum
AdaptationsAdaptations Focus was presented as a problem that is Focus was presented as a problem that is
appropriate for middle schoolappropriate for middle school Grade levels wereGrade levels were
Early Elementary: K – 2Early Elementary: K – 2 Middle Elementary: 3 – 4 Middle Elementary: 3 – 4 Upper Elementary: 5 – 6 Upper Elementary: 5 – 6
Model BIM – limited to one 2 hr 40 min Model BIM – limited to one 2 hr 40 min periodperiod
Work done in 2 periods + outside time Work done in 2 periods + outside time BIMs presented simultaneouslyBIMs presented simultaneously
What will we do today?What will we do today?
Experience a Experience a TrainingTraining BIM that we have BIM that we have adapted from a pre-service BIMadapted from a pre-service BIM This BIM will be an example of the flexibility that is This BIM will be an example of the flexibility that is
possible when using a BIMpossible when using a BIM This Training BIM was designed to meet the goals This Training BIM was designed to meet the goals
of today’s meetingof today’s meeting Create a BIM based on adaptations you will Create a BIM based on adaptations you will
decide upondecide upon Monitor your own process of designingMonitor your own process of designing
Focus for 2/18/09:
Leave with an understanding of what it takes to design a BIM
Focus of 2/25/09:
Leave with an understanding of what it takes to help others design a BIM
Let’s experience a BIM using a model that you are not familiar with….
As you work, consider how this new BIM compares to your previous experiences with BIMs.
Reminder:
Build Pagoda as the Model BIM unfolds; switch to Word document
Debriefing questions:
What kinds of learning happens in a BIM?
What does this new model show about the versatility in how BIMs can be created and used?
What are the potential applications in teacher practice &/or district initiatives?
Comparison of 2 different BIM models:
-Content study
-Explore content connections
-Awareness about other grades
-Opportunity to align curricula
-Variety of inquiry approaches
-Time involved
-Audiences
Regular BIMs
Team of 3 teachers and 1 admin/BIM
2-day training to begin design process
~6 month design effort
Access to scientist/ mathematician assigned to team
Extended exploration of the content, connections, big idea, student misconceptions, teaching strategies, vertical articulation
Product: polished 6 hr workshop used in summer institutes and as stand alone workshops; small # of teachers with deeper understandings
Mini-BIMs
Class of ~30 students
1 class mtg: intro
~2 class design effort
Instructor serves as content expert
Short exploration of the content, connections, big idea, student misconceptions, teaching strategies, vertical articulation
Product: completed worksheets; larger # of students/teachers with improved understandings
2 Models of BIM Design
Reminder to Kathy..
Let them EAT!
Please be ready to start again at 12:45
Make your own adapted BIM:
-Identify your audience and their needs
-What is the intent in guiding this audience to create BIMs?
-What adaptations do you think will be necessary to accomplish these goals? Consider:
• grade levels to cover• time• content knowledge of audience• familiarity with BIMs• intent for the BIM “products”
-Choose either math or science; use appropriate resources
-Use Concept Strand Selection worksheet to decide on Big Idea
-Complete Key Concepts & Connections sheet as you work (pagoda!)
-Track your steps by completing blank Design Steps Matrix (paper or electronic)
“name” the steps (Col. 1) and
describe what happened in each(Col. 2)
[3rd and 4th col. are for homework!]
GO!
Steps taken to create a BIM:
(We will continue this discussion next week!)
Homework
Complete all 4 columns of Matrix for your newly designed BIM.
Complete the Pagoda for this BIM.
Find out what your district’s plans are for the use of your new skills!
Send your completed Matrix to all of us by Monday 9a.m. next week. (This implies that your grp
comes to agreement on a final matrix.)
One member of each grp “Reply all” to
email sent to you this morning.
If you have time, take a look at the other grps’ matrices before you come to 2nd day of training.