Upcoming Mathematics Professional Development

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Customized ICOE Mathematics Professional Development Services

Common Core State Standards and Smarter Balance Assessments:  Team will receive training on Common Core State Standards Movement. Team will work collaboratively with facilitator as they examine current curriculum practices to come up with plan to integrate Common Core Standards into curriculum. This work will result in a plan of action for common core roll out and revised curriculum and pacing guides.

Quality Formative Assessments: Team/Department will examine best practices and research in order to refine a comprehensive formative assessment system for their course/content. Team will review current practices and assessments. This work will produce revised assessment guide and potentially revised assessments. NOTE: It is recommended that district have an adequate test bank for teachers to support this work.

Effective Instruction: Teachers will receive training in basic components of effective teacher and student Instruction centered instruction. Training will include teachers developing one lesson using lesson format. Facilitators will give feedback to each teacher on their created lesson. Training is fundamental prior to engaging in Learning Walks, Cognitive Planning and/or Lesson Study.

Learning Walks: School/teams will participate in reflective Learning Walks. Teachers will be provided a one-hour refresher training on key elements of Effective Instruction. Teachers will then engage in reflective conversations about their own teaching practices as they observe lessons throughout the school. NOTE: Learning Walks can be modified to include district-wide instructional initiatives.

Lesson Study:  Groups of teachers will participate in Lesson Study. Group will identify learning objective and create a common lesson, with the assistance of a facilitator. Teams will then observe one another teach this lesson and provide feedback to one another. Lesson Study cycles can occur several times in one school year.

Individual Teacher: Cognitive Planning and coaching is provided to individual teachers as needed. Teachers could receive one-on-one training, lesson planning and feedback on lesson delivery.

Enhancing Mathematics Instruction through Technology: Teams will explore the variety of way that technology can support teachers organizationally and instructionally. Teachers will examine research-based recommendations for practice and clarify how to use both new and familiar technologies to set objectives that are specific, flexible, and personal through the use of organizers, information gathering and analysis, simulations, interactive learning sites, games, online formative assessments, long distance learning, and online communication and interaction with students, parents and other teachers.

Response to Intervention: Teams will work with teachers to design a Secondary Response to Intervention (RtI) Model. Team will examine RtI components and common mistaken approaches to RtI (Du Four and Marzano, 2011). This work will result in the creation of a proactive, directive, multi-layered and flexible RtI model that is aimed at both the non-intentional and intentional non-learners.

Imperial County Math Competition-May 16, 2012 Each school with a 7th or 8th grade is eligible to enter a 7th and an 8th grade team in the competition. Limit of one team per school per grade level. Each school must submit a completed official entry form with its fees, as well as coaches’ and students’ names by the deadline to be accepted in the competition. The 2011 Competition will be held on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm at Wilson Junior High School.

Schools who wish to complete must register their teams using OMS (...) on the web. The due date to register, pay fees, and turn in release forms is Thursday, April 12, 2012.

The competition is held in three phases--described below--and will be team competitions. Calculators may be used in any of the three phases. The questions used will be based upon the new Common Core State Standards (California edition) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Program format. Each phase will be based on the difficulty of the questions with the first phase having less rigorous questions and the third phase having the most rigorous questions.

Questions in the first phase will be worth ten points each.
Second phase questions will be worth 20 points.
Third phase questions will be worth 30 points.

The seventh grade teams will compete first; then the eighth grade teams will compete. Each grade level competition should be approximately 45 minutes in lengh. The public and parents are invited to attend the competition.

Teams will work in groups to solve each problem. Teams will be seated at separate tables, and each team responding correctly will receive ten (10) points per correct answer. The competition is open to the public and parents are encouraged to attend. Doors for the public open promptly at 1:30 pm.