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Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional
Development
Evelyn Mamman, Director, Title I and Supplemental Education,
Interim Language Arts Supervisor
New Brunswick School District
Walter J. Cmielewski, Language Arts Consultant, Professor, Caldwell University
What is Job-embedded professional development?
Teacher Learning
Day to day teaching practice
Designed to infuse best practices into the classroom
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
“Up-Front” Training Workshops
Classroom Visits and On-site P.D.
Consistent Format and Approaches
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
“Up-Front” Training Workshops
Writing
Quick Writes
Writer’s Workshop
Portfolios
Pre-Writing Graphic Organizers
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
“Up-Front” Training Workshops
Reading
Jump-in Reading and Pointed Reading
Reader’s Workshop
Guided Reading
Literature Circles
Focus on higher order questions
Wait Times
Classroom visits and On-site P.D.
Demo Lessons and Debriefing
Classroom Visits to Observe Lesson and Debriefing
Common Planning Time Meetings
Building Reading Specialists as On-site Resources
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Consistent Format and Approaches
The structures are identical in all buildings.
Transient population
Vertical and horizontal articulation
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Quick Writes are
do-now’s, two-minute writing based on a single word.
Shared with a partner
Shared by nomination with the class
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Let’s try a quick write…..
The word is ______________.
Go!
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
WRITER’S WORKSHOP
Status of the Class
Teacher calls each student to ascertain his/her plan for the workshop.
Choices:
SSR/SSW – Sustained Silent Reading/Writing
Teacher conference
Partner conference
Sharing time
Mini-lesson
Procedural
Motivational
Skills
SSR/SSW and Teacher Conferences and Partner Conferences
These occur concurrently.
Dialog Journal (Reader’s Workshop only)
Students write about what they read in SSR and pass the dialog journal to the teacher or a classmate for his/her response.
Sharing Time
Students share with the entire class about their reading/writing from that day
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
PORTFOLIO PROGRAM
Works in Progress Folder
Work student is presently working on
Student can retire a piece and hold onto it and go onto a different piece.
Classroom Portfolio
Completed and graded student work that was not chosen for the traveling portfolio.
Traveling Portfolio
Contents of a traveling portfolio:
4 marking period pieces
Cover sheet- “Why This Piece Belongs in My Portfolio”
Letter written to next year’s teacher at the end of the school year. The letter should state the following:
What they like about reading and writing.
What they are struggling with
What they are good at
5 point state rubric
Teacher circles appropriate indicators relevant to the student as a writer for the year.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Graphic Organizer for Narrative Writing
The “Secret Planner”
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Wait Time 1
The teacher asks a questions and waits.
No hands until the signal is given.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Wait Time 2
The student responds and the teacher waits.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Wait Time 3
A student asks a question, and the teacher waits.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Jump-in ReadingStudents read passage silently in class or at home
first
Teacher begins oral reading and any student may jump in and teacher jumps out
Other students jump in and out as well as the teacher
Teacher jumps in on proficient readers and struggling readers to prevent stigmatizing the struggling reader
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Pointed ReadingThis activity follows Jump-in Reading.
Teacher selects a favorite word or phrase and points to it and asks the students to do the same
Students and teacher begin to call out their favorites
Even if someone has taken yours, you still call out yours and anyone can call theirs again and again
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
READER’S WORKSHOP
Status of the Class
Teacher calls each student to ascertain his/her plan for the workshop.
Choices:
SSR/SSW – Sustained Silent Reading/Writing
Teacher conference
Partner conference
Sharing time
Mini-lesson
Procedural
Motivational
Skills
SSR/SSW and Teacher Conferences and Partner Conferences (These occur concurrently.)
Dialog Journal (Reader’s Workshop only)
Students write about what they read in SSR and pass the dialog journal to the teacher or a classmate for his/her response.
Sharing Time
Students share with the entire class about their reading/writing from that day
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
GUIDED READING
1. Picture Walk (1-2 minutes)
2. Oral Reading by Teacher (10 minutes)
3. Mini Lesson (5 -7 minutes)
4. Whisper Reading by students (5 minutes)
5. Retelling by Students (2 minutes)
6. Follow-up Activities
7. Optional Extension Activities
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
LITERATURE CIRCLES
These are cooperative learning reading groups in which each participant has an assigned role/task. The six roles/tasks are:
Discussion Director: Creates questions which evoke a discussion
Summarizer: Captures the main points of the reading done previously
Illustrator: Creates an illustration which evokes discussion
Connector: Makes connections to life or other literary works
Word Wizard: Selects vocabulary in context for students to discuss
Passage Picker: Selects passage which illustrate descriptive language or figures of speech
The Ladder and the Building
The Manager and the Leader
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
A manager sees the ladder leaning against a building and makes sure that the ladder is safe, no splinters, no loose rungs, etc.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
A leader makes sure the ladder is leaning against the right building.
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Delivering High Quality Instruction through Job-Embedded Professional Development
Thanks for being such a great audience!
Evelyn Mammon
New Brunswick Public Schools
Dr. Walter J. Cmielewski
Caldwell University