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Communication, connection, 2
This document summarizes a presentation about using team-building activities to teach Common Core standards in advisory classes. The presenters introduce themselves and their backgrounds in special education. They describe their advisory classes which meet daily for 30 minutes with 15 special education students each. They discuss their educational beliefs about arousing curiosity and giving students a voice. They provide examples of linking standards to team-building activities focused on perseverance, collaboration, and problem-solving. Students reflect on the activities and how they show perseverance. The presenters explain how the activities address Common Core speaking, listening, and math standards while building community.
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Communication, connection, 2
- 1. Communication, Connection, and Common Core MamsePresentation By: Kattie Hogan and Aimee Carbone
- 2. Overview • Introduction ofPresenters • Overview of Advisory Class • Theoretical Framework, Beliefs That Guide Our Work • Try It Outs and Debriefing • Walk Away-How Can You Transform Your Classroom Instruction?
- 3. Presenter Introductions Aimee CarboneKattie Hogan Degrees in Special Education-Cognitive Impairments Learning Disabilities and Reading Specialist Degrees in English, Special Education-Learning Disabilities, and Reading Current Placement: 6th through 8th grade, primarily in language arts co-taught classes and Reading Intervention Current Placement: Primarily Resource Room and a co-taught math class Current Challenges: Students lack vocabulary and skills to interact appropriately with peers Current Challenges: Students’ difficulties with language-based activities makes reading and writing tasks slow-paced and often painful
- 4. Advisory Overview • About30 minutes long-5 days a week • Both classes are filled with about 15 special education students (variety of impairments including: E.I., L.D, C.I.) • Time for reviewing school expectations/events, finishing homework, and community building • A balancing act of supporting academic and social needs
- 5. What We BelieveAbout Education •“Education {should} arouse curiosity, strengthen initiative, and set up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future” (Dewey, 1938, p. 28) •“Behind their fearful silence, our students want to find their voices, speak their voices, have their voices hear. A good teacher is one who can listen to the voices before they are spoken-so that someday they can speak with truth and confidence” (Palmer, 1998, p. 46) •“It is in speaking their word that people, by naming their world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings” (Freire, 1970, pg. 69).
- 6. teach Common Core! Idon’t I have time for creativity and insightful independent thinking when my effectiveness is judged on students’ performance on standardized tests. Solution: Link Standards with Team-Building Activities
- 7. Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1.C Pose questions thatelicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring their discussion back to the topic as needed Have You Ever? Ice Breaker Questions
- 8. Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 Determine a themeor central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Individual/Community Text: The Giver Activity: Marshmallow Tower Discussion Question: What is the significance of an individual in a community? TRY IT OUT!
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- 12. Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 Determine a themeor central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Perseverance Text: Dear Mr. Faulker, Article on Liz Murray From Homeless to Harvard Activity: See Packet Discussion Question: How do you show perseverance in your own life?
- 13. Student Samples: Attacking theChallenge Images “
- 14. Student Samples: Perseverance “Perseveranceis when you get scared that you can’t do it”-Emily “Perseverance is brave and not scary”- Aaron Perseverance is when you keep trying even if it was hard. Never give up.-Elizabeth
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- 16. BALL Combining Perseverance and Community Tossthe ball without dropping it to all of the members in the community. Count the number of times you catch it. “Everyone go easy. Toss it to the person you are close by.” – Strategies and other language emerges as students negotiate a task with one another.
- 17. BALL Common Core Connection “CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1 Engageeffectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.7.1.B Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed BALL IS A BUILDING BLOCK: STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT COLLABORATION COMMUNICATION, AND SHARING IDEAS AS THEY WORK ON MEETING A SPECIFIC GOAL. TRY IT OUT!
- 18. SAVE SAMMY! The boathas capsized and Sammy’s life preserver is trapped inside the boat. He doesn’t know how long he can hang on to the boat. Help save him. Connection to Common Core: CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
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- 21. Walk Away-How CanYou Transform Your Classroom Instruction?