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Major funding provided by: Roche
Supplemental support provided by: HSBC Bank
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
The Hyde and Watson Foundation |
Curriculum,
Learning, and Assessment Studies FREE
Workshop Preparing Students for College, Career, and
Citizenship Bringing
the Standards into Your Classroom Tuesday June
11, 2013 8:30-2:15 The Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment Studies (CLAS) Project at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark NJ in conjunction with the New Jersey Department of Education ( NJDOE), is hosting a workshop on the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on June 11, 2013 from 8:30-2:15. This is a free workshop for up to 150 participants. It is intended to be a hands-on working session to learn about and work with the CCSS. These workshop sessions will focus on the presentation of resources for teachers and provide the opportunity to experience a variety of methods to understand the standards and use them effectively in their classrooms. Thanks to generous funding from Roche, with supplemental
support from The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Corporation, and HSBC Bank Agenda
Keynote
Speech Obstacles
and Opportunities: Addressing
the Transition to In order to fully implement
the CCSS and prepare students for the PARCC assessments, we must address how
teachers teach, how principals lead and how students learn. This discussion will focus on how educators
can use the Model Curriculum, Unit Assessments, SGOs and instructional
resources to improve student achievement. Concurrent
Session Each attendee will be assigned to two distinct concurrent sessions one
before and one after lunch. To
accommodate the choices of as many participants as possible, some sessions
may be run twice. When completing registrations
below, please select your top three (3) preferred sessions and every attempt
will be made to assign everyone their top two (2) choices. Depending on space, numbers, and technology
needs, sessions will run in computer labs, large rooms with roundtables or
small conference rooms.
Space is limited and on a first-come-first-serve basis
so please complete the registration form below and submit it to reserve your
space and select your desired sessions.
A description of each session follows the registration form. Concurrent
Session Descriptions 1.
Adaptive Learning, Open Educational Resources and Learning Management System
Alternatives Blake Haggerty, New Jersey
Institute of Technology This session will touch on three
topics that have been getting a lot of attention lately because of their
potential impact on both K-12 and Higher Education. 1) Adaptive
Learning: 2) Open Educational Resources: 3) Learning Management
System Alternatives. Adaptive
Learning uses computer software to work individually with students to determine
what they already know so that each student can focus on topics s/he is ready
to learn. We will explore some of the available software packages and
discuss ways that they can be incorporated into the classroom. In
addition to adaptive learning we will look at open educational resources that
can be used to enhance the classroom experience. Participants will
become familiar with sites like the 2.
Common Core Mathematical Practices--Collaboration and Dynamic Mathematics Muteb Alqahtani, Rutgers University-Newark This workshop will demonstrate engaging
students with cutting-edge technology in a dynamic, collaborative
environment, focused on mathematical practices. Participants will collaborate
in small teams, using an online environment called Virtual Mathematics Teams
with GeoGebra (VMTwG), to construct mathematical objects and explore
relationships among the objects. Participants will review interaction logs
identifying use of math practices and implementation into their classrooms. 3. Creating Multiple Entry Points for Diverse
Learners into Common Core Literacy Alezandra Melendrez, Rutgers University-Newark This workshop will cover how to address
special education and ELL students’ learning needs while still maintaining
the rigor of the common core by using: differentiation, scaffolding, flexible
groups and project based learning. The workshop will involve a hands-on
approach where participants will work in groups to revise lessons and units
that address diverse learners’ needs and common core standards and create
more inclusive classrooms. (Participants are invited to bring in their own
lessons and units to work on). 4. Interactive Use of Vernier Equipment,
Clickers, and Mobis as Educational Tools Joe Geissler, This session will provide educators with
useful ideas for incorporating technologies into classroom lectures. Vernier
scientific equipment can effectively demonstrate various scientific and
mathematical principles. The equipment is versatile and comes with suggested
procedures and review sheets. Clickers and mobile interactive whiteboards can
be used as teaching tools within the classroom to support CCSS and NGSS by
allowing teachers to acquire experimental data to analyze, graph, and present
real data. These tools also allow educators the ability to monitor individual
student progress in real time and determine whether most students have
grasped the topic or whether more instruction is needed. Of most importance,
it is vital to use these technologies responsibly such that they do not become
more of a distraction than educational tool. 5. Leading & Essential Questions James Lipuma, New
Jersey Institute of Technology This session will involve looking at the
creation of good questions tied to standards and learning objectives. It will give particular emphasis to
distinguishing different levels of questions and clearly identify what are
essential questions tied to Bloom’s Taxonomy. 6.
Lexile-Scores and Text Complexity This session will review
text complexity and the concept of a Lexile score. Participants will be given tools for
diagnosis of literacy issues for learners and be shown how to obtain Lexile
scores and other text-complexity measures. 7.
Motivation and Engagement in Mathematics: One Size Doesn't Fit All Roberta Y. Schorr &
Lina Sanchez, Rutgers
University-Newark; and Lisa Warner, The Common Core State
Standards in Mathematics requires that students be able to understand the
material, justify responses, and determine when, how, and why a mathematical
statement or rule should be used. In
order to accomplish this, students need to be meaningfully motivated and
engaged in learning the math. Often
times we characterize engagement along a continuum ranging from disengaged to
highly engaged. But, such
characterizations may be misleading, and in some cases,
counterproductive. They may not take
into account the moment to moment shifts that occur throughout all class
sessions. For example, a student may
be initially bored by the lesson, then become interested in a problem,
encounter frustration while solving it, and then find a strategy that makes
him feel genuinely excited. Understanding such momentary shifts in engagement
is both highly complex and critically essential. During this session, we will explore some
of the different ways in which students engage in mathematics learning, and
how to support them in the process. 8.
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Adam D. Fried, This session will
introduce PARCC and demonstrate and discuss the types of assessment tools and
the data produced. 9.
The Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment Studies (CLAS) Network Keith
Williams, New Jersey Institute of Technology This session will
introduce the cloud-based repository for materials and networking space for
educators being developed at NJIT.
Participants will be shown the interface, discuss its function and
uses as well as be asked for input and feedback on how it could serve them
best. 10. Using PBS Learning Media to Enrich your Common Core
Curriculum Jiyeon Lee,
New Jersey Institute of Technology PBS LearningMedia (formerly teachersdomain.org)
is a classroom-ready digital resource site that houses a large repository of
videos, audios, interactive media and accompanying lesson plans that are
aligned to the Common Core and national standards. In this workshop, we’ll
explore the PBS Learning Media website on how to search content by standards,
share materials with the students, and use various media resources. Active
users are welcome to share their experiences. For questions please contact: James M Lipuma, PhD Director-Curriculum,
Learning,, & Assessment Studies (CLAS) Project
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