Do you want to provide more leadership for fostering project-based learning in your school but fear your students will not develop the complex and deep reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills measured by PARCC?
Put on some comfortable clothes and join us at the Columbia Yacht Club (111 N. Lake Shore Drive) to build a sea rover you will use to collect real-time data from Lake Michigan, then develop your instructional coaching skills to support teachers in using these types of activities to enhance PARCC-Readiness by fostering language development in native speakers and English Learners, alike.
Leave with skills and strategies to help you ...
- Support teachers in developing and implementing meaningful CCSS-aligned real-world projects into your school's curriculum in ways that foster development of Common Core Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking standards in native speakers and English Learners
- Supervise and evaluate project-focused instruction for alignment with the Common Core Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language standards are developed and reflected in project-focused learning activities
- Evaluate project-focused instruction for alignment with the standards measured in PARCC
Go back to your school with a plan for leading your teachers in developing and using real-world projects across the curriculum as a means for achieving the expectations set forth in the Common Core State Standards, and as measured by PARCC.
FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING CONNECTIONS
1e: Designing coherent instruction
1f: Designing student assessments
3b: Using questioning and discussion techniques
3c: Engaging students in learning
3d: Using assessments in instruction
5ESSENTIALS CONNECTIONS
Ambitious Instruction
Effective Leaders