Library Media Specialists K-12

SYSTEMIC PDMD COLLEGE AND CAREER READY!

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Presentation Transformation

Integration of MD College and Career Readiness Standards (RELA) AND AASL School Librarian Evaluation

•MDCCRS (RELA) • Using digital tools• Creating text dependent questions• Creating formative and summative assessments• Creating close reading opportunities• Raising rigor

• AASL School Librarian Evaluation • Addressing Multiple Literacies• The Role of Reading• Assessment in Teaching and Learning• Building Collaborative Partnerships• Effective Practices for Inquiry

Discovery• D - Digital Tool• E – Text Dependent Questions• P - An Assessment Strategy• T – A Close Reading Model to Use with Text/Image/Video• H – Learning Targets for Content Areas to Increase Rigor

•Think about the Discovery sessions in correlation to our professional development topics:• Building Collaborative Partnerships• The Role of Reading• Addressing Multiple Literacies• Effective Practices for Inquiry• Assessment in Teaching for Learning

How Does the AASL School Librarian Evaluation Connect to My School?• Building Collaborative Partnerships• Become an expert on the

interdisciplinary features of your state’s standards

• Use AASL’s Crosswalks to compare standards by grade level

• Use AASL’s Crosswalks to align student learning standards

• Use the power of the MD College and Career Readiness Standards to increase your curriculum leadership role in your school

• The Role of Reading• Hone your skills in teaching

reading in a content area to help boost students’ informational reading skills

• Model “think aloud” reading strategies

• Co-plan and co-teach to help students read better in content areas

• Revisit learning/reviewing reading strategies for your grade levels/students

How Does the AASL School Librarian Evaluation Connect to My School?• Addressing Multiple Literacies• Teach skills of argument

analysis, problem-solving, decision-making, and cognitive process

• Read library and technology journals for technology and social media tips

• Show teachers how to integrate new formats into their lessons

• Locate website content to teach critical thinking skills to students

• Use graphic organizers

• Use information literacy models (Big 6)

• Include visual, digital, textual and technological formats

• Effective Practices for Inquiry• Include references to your

school library program standards in educational conversations with staff

• Share the Crosswalks with teachers and administrators

• Create templates for students to use at each level of the information literacy model (Big 6)

• Participate in virtual networks with other librarians to learn to implement strategies

• Chunk assignments within your lessons into doable pieces of learning

How Does the AASL School Librarian Evaluation Connect to My School?• Assessment in Teaching for Learning• Create rubrics

• Create self reflection tools

• Familiarize yourself with a variety of student-learning standards

• Familiarize yourself with formative assessments

• Learn multiple assessment strategies

Agenda – 90 Minutes• Look at an “Common Core” Exemplar for Reading LA• Analyze it for connections to LMS Standards• Create a Lesson Seed• Think about how to infuse:• A digital tool• Text-dependent questions• An assessment strategy• A close-reading model to use with the text/image/video of your

choice• How to raise the rigor for a grade/content• Discovery PLUS all of our online resources

• End the day with an aligned lesson seed for next year.

Agenda – 45 Minutes• Outline professional development for

upcoming year• Discuss creation of folders in Google Drive and

joining Edmodo professional development groups.

• Professional development focus:• Teaching and Learning

• Building Collaborative Partnerships• Raising Rigor

• The Role of Reading• Text Dependent Questions• Close Reading

• Addressing Multiple Literacies• Discovery and More

• Effective Practices for Inquiry• Crosswalk

• Assessment in Teaching for Learning• Formative Assessment

Google Drive

Edmodo Groups

Join Edmodo• Say “hello” to your group!• At the end of the day, add one “discovery” to share with your group!

Contents of Your Folder

https://lms-professional-development.wikispaces.com/

The Moon: A Short Focused Research Project• Looking at the lesson through our lenses• Thinking about how to integrate our standards• Unpacking our standards to find the right skills/concepts to infuse.• Looking at the lenses and using our expertise to add to the lesson.• Throughout your day, add to the list for practice.• Try your own grade level lesson.• http://achievethecore.org/ achievethecore.org

Professional Development 2014-2015Continuing our focus throughout the year….

Maryland College and Career Readiness Standards• Reading Language Arts, K-12

Elementary: Grade 2

Elementary: Grade 2

Elementary: Grade 2

Elementary: Grade 2

RUBRIC

INCREASE RIGOR

Elementary: Grade 2

RUBRIC

INCREASE RIGOR

Elementary: Grade 2 RUBRIC

INCREASE RIGOR

Elementary: Grade 2: Unpacking: Language.4• Nouns - Concepts• Words

• Phrases

• Materials

• Ideas

• Information

• Format

• Strategy

• Verbs - Skills• Determine

• Clarify

• Analyzing

• Note-taking

• Write

• Draw

• Verbalize

FROM MSDE ELA, GRADE 2:• Use keywords and text features to help find information within

a specific source.• Strengthen writing by using glossaries and beginning

dictionaries to determine word choice.

Think Abouts:

Lesson Parts• Engagement• Attaining the Concepts• Showing their Learning

Group Focus:• Group D: A digital tool• Group E: Text Dependent

Questions• Group P: Assessment Strategy• Group T: Close Reading Model to

Use with Text/Image/Video of your choice• Group H: Raising Rigor

Poetry

Vocabulary

Writing

Elementary: Grade 2: Unpacking: Speaking/Listening.1• Nouns – Concepts• Discussion

• Rules

• Topics

• Ideas

• Understandings

• Decisions

• Problems

• Respect

• Feedback

• Verbs – Skills• Listening

• Taking notes

• Speaking

• Collaborate

• Exchange

• Solve

• Show

• Give

FROM MSDE ELA, GRADE 2:• Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining

the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion.

Think Abouts:

Lesson Parts• Engagement• Attaining the Concepts• Showing their Learning

Group Focus:• Group 1: A digital tool• Group 2: Text Dependent

Questions• Group 3: Assessment Strategy• Group 4: Close Reading Model to

Use with Text/Image/Video of your choice• Group 5: Raising Rigor

Poetry

Vocabulary

Writing

Creating a Plan

GROUP WORK

Organize• Count off to five• Select a folder• Organize:• Decide which of the standards

you will focus on as best suited to your assigned focus according to the folder selected.

• Assign roles: • All brainstorm

• Note-taker

• Presenter

• Timekeeper

• 3 or 4 online resource finders

• Poster Makers

• Student Activity Visionaries

• Timeframe• 30 minutes• 6 minute presentations

• 10 minutes to organize

• 10 minutes to brainstorm and locate resources

• 10 minutes to create poster and add student activities