The document summarizes a professional development morning at Worcester Academy. It discusses current data trends from September 2011 and February 2012 regarding accommodations for different student groups. It then covers how to access student profiles, what the profiles are used for, and learning styles. Teachers learned about Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, the importance of modeling, using multiple entry points in curriculum and assessment, and resources like Bookshare, Webspiration and a CFL Wiki. The session concluded with a discussion of reading strategies and planning for lessons.

1. Worcester Academy Professional Development Morning
3/26/12
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2. Current Data Trends
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3. September, 2011 Data
CFL: DOCUMENTATION ON FILE WITH ACCOMMODATIONS
SOC: FORMAL REFERRAL PROCESS
SH: STRUCTURED SKILL-BASED STUDY HALL
DI: DOCUMENTATION ON FILE; FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE
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4. February, 2012 Data
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5. The CFL Profile
• How to access: log into PowerTeacher, Under
current classes click the printer icon,
• Click the CFL student profile and submit
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6. The CFL Profile
• How to access: log into PowerTeacher, Under
current classes click the printer icon,
• Click the CFL student profile and submit
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7. The CFL Profile
• How to access: log into PowerTeacher, Under
current classes click the printer icon,
• Click the CFL student profile and submit
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8. The CFL Profile
• How to access: log into PowerTeacher, Under
current classes click the printer icon,
• Click the CFL student profile and submit
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9. • under the report queue and my jobs (first
one) hit VIEW; this will show the class list on
the right hand side
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11. • What the CFL does with the profiles
• What the classroom teacher does with the profiles
Two ways to think about the learners in each of your
classes...
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12. The Four Brain Based
Learning Styles
• Abstract Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Concrete Sequential
• Online Source ***revisit if time
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13. The Matrix
• Purpose: To provide a “snapshot” of the
types of learners in each class; a concept to
be adapted to the needs of each individual
teacher
• Goal: to facilitate groupings and lesson
planning
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15. The Language of Higher Order Thinking
Knowledge
Count, Define, Describe, Draw, Find, Identify, Label, List, Match, Name, Quote, Recall, Recite, Sequence, Tell, Write
Comprehension
Conclude, Demonstrate, Discuss, Explain, Generalize, Identify, Illustrate, Interpret, Paraphrase, Predict, Report, Restate,
Review, Summarize, Tell
Application
Apply, Change, Choose, Compute, Dramatize, Interview, Prepare, Produce, Role-play, Select, Show, Transfer, Use
Analysis
Analyze, Characterize, Classify, Compare, Contrast, Debate, Deduce, Diagram, Differentiate, Discriminate, Distinguish,
Examine, Outline, Relate, Research, Separate,
Synthesis
Compose, Construct, Create, Design, Develop, Integrate, Invent, Make, Organize, Perform, Plan, Produce, Propose,
Rewrite
Evaluation
Appraise, Argue, Assess, Choose, Conclude, Critic, Decide, Evaluate, Judge, Justify, Predict, Prioritize, Prove, Rank,
Rate, Select,
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17. Bloom’s Digital
Taxonomy
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18. Importance of Modeling; How can
we use it?
Students at different points on the continuum benefit from:
Strategic Grouping
I do,You do, We do
Think Pair Share
Student Presentations
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19. Multiple entry points
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20. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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21. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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22. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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23. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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24. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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25. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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26. Multiple entry points
Curriculum
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27. Multiple entry points
Curriculum Assessment
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28. Our Goal
• Campus Metaphor
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29. Teacher’s Domain
• The site
• How could you use this?
• How can it be used as a
differentiator?
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30. What is Bookshare?
• Bookshare® is an online library of digital books for people with print
disabilities. It operates under an exception to U.S. copyright law which allows
copyrighted digital books to be made available to people with qualifying
disabilities.
• Worcester Academy now has an Organizational Membership to
Bookshare. All students with qualifying disabilities now have access to
this program.
• This is what it looks like:
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31. Who has access to Bookshare?
• All CFL Learning Specialists, Wendy Cotta,
Jason Epstein, and Kris Geenty are
“Sponsors” of the school membership. These
individuals can install the software and help
your student download books.
• All students with documented learning
disabilities have access through the Worcester
Academy CFL Organizational account.
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32. How do you use Bookshare?
• We will make sure the software is
downloaded onto each student’s computer.
• The Bookshare icon looks like this:
• Double click the icon and “ReadOutLoud”
will open
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33. Reading the book
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34. Demonstration
• Read Outloud and annotating
• PLEASE!! When choosing a textbook/ trade
book, make sure it is published after 2007. By
law, these books must be digitally accessible
to students with documented disabilities.
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35. Webspiration
• The site
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36. Multiple entry points
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37. Multiple entry points
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38. Multiple entry points
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39. Multiple entry points
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40. Multiple entry points
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41. Multiple entry points
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42. Multiple entry points
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B ook
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43. Multiple entry points
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44. Multiple entry points
share
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Webspiration
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45. Multiple entry points
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46. Multiple entry points
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47. Multiple entry points
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49. Multiple entry points
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50. The CFL Wiki
• Purpose: To provide a resource for
students, parents, and teachers
• Site
• Ticket to leave
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51. Session 2 Agenda
• Theory and implications
• Anchor Binders
• Eleven Lesson
• Time to plan with a partner
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52. It’s all related
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53. It’s all related
Phonemic Awareness
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54. It’s all related
Phonemic Awareness
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55. It’s all related
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
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56. It’s all related
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
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57. It’s all related
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
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58. It’s all related
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
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59. It’s all related
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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60. It’s all related
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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61. It’s all related
Fluency
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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62. It’s all related
Fluency
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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63. It’s all related
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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64. It’s all related
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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65. It’s all related
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Fluency
Phonics
Decoding
Phonemic Awareness
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66. Anchor Binders
• Purpose
• Anchor resource
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68. Use color to identify the characters
in the story. For example:
Yellow: Rachel
Pink: Mrs. Price
Green: Sylvia
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69. Role Audience Format Topic
Her day at
Rachel Her Mother Letter
school
What happened
Mrs. Price A Colleague A Script with the red
sweater?
What did
Song lyrics Mrs. Price
Sylvia A Sibling
with a refrain did to
Rachel?
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70. Take Aways/What strategies and/or tools can you
use tomorrow?
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71. The Four Brain Based
Learning Styles
• Abstract Random
• Abstract Sequential
• Concrete Random
• Concrete Sequential
• Online Source ***revisit if time
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