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TOPIC: All about ACT: Content, Format, and Strategy
Mississippi Dept of Education
Individualized School Districts
(2016-2017)
Abstract:
Classroom integration of ACT skills is made easy with skill-based instruction coupled with strategy. During this session, teachers will delve into the ACT content, format, question/ problem/ answer types, ordering of questions/passages, and personal approaches to each section. This in-depth look at ACT will provide insight and resources that can be utilized in the classroom.
Target Audience: PD is best suited for English, math, and science teachers. Emphasis will be placed on English and Math with basic strategies discussed for Reading and Science
TOPIC: ACT: What Do You Know for Sure?
Mickie Knight, NBCT
Pisgah High School fall
Abstract:
The emphasis of this session is to acknowledge ALL teachers' roles in preparing students for standardized tests: ACT, SAT, PSAT, AP. By impressing upon the teachers the importance of providing an academic learning environment rich with questioning and applied strategies to learning, students will improve thinking skills and comprehension skills while, hopefully, witnessing a gain in test scores.
Data: I will need access to the high school's 5-year ACT trend
We Know--State scores vs. high school scores
College Readiness--Benchmarks
Where do we go from here?
Inside ALL classrooms
The Test
ACT vs. SAT
It's up to all of us to PUSH....(video clip)
"Nobody cares what you know until they know that you care." Anonymous
TOPIC: Senior Segue 101: College Ready!!
Mickie Knight, NBCT
SREB-Summer Conference
SREB Newsletter Link:
http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10V03w_BestPractices_Transitions.pdf
(pages 16-17)
Abstract:
Eat, drink, sleep, and live the Senior Project in order to enhance communication skills, increase problem-solving abilities, perceive the real business world, and commit to community service. The completion of this ONE assignment allows for a flawless transition from secondary to post-secondary education and/or the work force.
Description:
With the increase in unfocused high school seniors, research reveals that through authentic instruction and personal ownership of academic achievement, these students will successfully focus on possible careers, national and international problems, and local community needs. By implementing a year-long program of “independent” study, students grow to become young accountable adults!
Big Ideas:
1. Student-selected research topics
2. Portfolios (print and electronic)
3. Verbal defense of research
4. Community Service involvement
5. Academic adjustments prior to senior year
Evidence:
In our high school over the past 12 years, every senior has been required to complete this assignment. Special needs and regular classroom learners both benefit from this rigorous opportunity while also gaining a personal sense of accomplishment. There is true ownership of education!
Audience:
Teachers and administrators—grades 9-12
The Students’ Gain
“I couldn’t have done it without senior project.” Brian Kirby
“Senior Project forces you to go out into the business world.” Clint Hickman
“It helps me manage my time.” Lindsey Duke
“I was able to relate to the patients there because I had had experience in high school.”
Courtney Lyle
Resources
Using Rigor, Relevance and Relationships to Improve Student Achievement (SREB)
Lost in Transition: Building a Better Path from School to College and Careers (SREB)
Using Real-World Project to Help Students Meet High Standards in Education and the Workplace (SREB)
An Enhanced Design to Get All Students to Standards (SREB)
Senior Project Guide: Students Develop Academic and Technical Skills by Writing a Research Report, Creating a Product and Making and Oral Presentation (SREB)
The Path to Purpose by William Damon
seniorproject.net
Can Service Learning Keep Students in School (ASCD)
A Culture of Service Learning (ASCD)
Service Learning and Civic Participation (ASCD)
Taking Higher Ground (ASCD)
TOPIC: Teaching to the Extra Degree
Mickie Knight, NBCT
SREB-Summer Conference
SREB Newsletter Link:
http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10V05w_BestPractices_Reading_Writing_Math.pdf (pages 8-9)
The Driving Force
"Ten days out of Ten" (Todd Whitaker)
The Three R's
Rigor=Excellence
Relevance=Communication/Technology/Project-Based learning/Student options/Questioning
Relationships
"Students do not appreciate wasting their time any more than educators appreciate wasting their time in staff development that is not relevant"....so.....TEACH UP!!
Resources available on request
TOPIC: Reading in the English Classroom
Mickie Knight, NBCT
Pisgah High School 2010
Abstract:
The integration of interpretive texts/classics as well as enlightening/entertaining texts is key to engaging students in a continual realm of reading. Approaches to teaching novels and plays should be geared toward finding "the sweet spot" while not overteaching or underteaching. "Framing" of the texts should employ various teaching strategies that are consistent with the long-term goals associated with the reading of the work.
Data: I will need access to the aligned reading for grades 7-12
Reading Comprehension
The Confusion with Baseball
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Readicide
A Two-fold job
Argument for the Classics and the Entertaining
Teaching Strategies
"What's In Your Wallet?"...aka bookroom
"Get over the notion of students liking the book. What I care about is that all of my students see the value in reading. Students may or may not like the novel, but I want all of them to understand the value that comes from reading it." Readicide by Kelly Gallagher
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