High School English

Language Arts

FDRESA June 2013

Supporting CCGPS

Leadership Academy

Which teacher and student behaviors indicate successful implementation of CCGPS?

How can administrators encourage and

support teachers as they implement CCGPS?

Essential Questions

Have you ever driven a stick shift?

How does it differ from driving an automatic?

Talk with a neighbor and be ready to share.

An Analogy

What is different about CCGPS in ELA?

Read the shifts. Identify those that you do not often see

in your school classrooms. Make marginal notes of examples you

have observed during classroom visits. Be ready to share.

Shifts

If these behaviors are not in evidence in a school, the teachers and students have not begun to make the required shifts.

The Point!

How rigorous is rigorous? Examine each example of text and task. Mark evidence of any CCGPS shifts. Be ready to share.

A Big Question

Demands in…Social Studies

Science

CTAE

Literacy

What is required of students in this task?

What is the effect of algal blooms on the marine environments off the coast of the US?

After reading selected scientific texts, write a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency that examines the causes of algal blooms and explains the effects on marine environments. What conclusions or implications can you draw? Support your discussion with evidence from the texts.

An Example

Require students to… Read authentic, informational text independently

Recognize text structure Take notes and cite evidence from text Determine author’s purpose, reasoning, and fallacies in arguments Respond in writing to texts

CCGPS Literacy Standards

So what should we see when we visit classrooms?

Skim the handout describing “look fors” in CCGPS ELA classrooms.

Talk with a neighbor about how this document and information might be used In your school.

Observing

Which teacher and student behaviors indicate successful implementation of CCGPS?

How can administrators encourage and

support teachers as they implement CCGPS?

Essential Questions