1. Broome-Tioga BOCES
January 10, 2012

2.  What would you like to learn?
 How would you like to be engaged?
 What other strategies would you use to help
you take on the new learning?

3.  Define the components of effective teaching
and their critical attributes
 Identify the needs of the 21st century learner
 Describe the instructional shifts of the
common core
 Identify critical thinking verbs
 List the attributes of an effective question
 Develop learning outcomes and guiding
questions that promote critical thinking

4.  Welcome and overview
 The 21st century learner
 The common core learning standards
 Components of Effective Teaching (Review)
 The New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
 Effective Questioning to Promote Critical
Thinking
 Closure and Next Steps

6.  What skills are necessary in the 21st century
for college and career readiness?
 What can we do as teachers to help students
learn these skills? What evidence is there in
the text that supports this?

7. Latest research… 21st Century Skills…
Critical and Creative Thinking
 Problem formulation 
 Problem Solving
 Research
 Accessing and integrating vast
 Interpretation amounts of information
 Collaborating
 Communication
 Effectively Communicating
 Precision and Accuracy
 Developing Positive
(Connelly, Michael) Relationships
 Flexibility and Adaptability

9.  If you had to summarize the components of
effective teaching to a colleague, what would
you say?
 Think…write
 Share with the group

10. Teaching Decision #1 Teaching Decision #2
What do I want the students to How will I teach so the students
learn? learn?
TEACHING
DECISONS
Teaching Decision #3 Teaching Decision #4
How will I know ALL students How will I respond if students
have learned? have learned?...if they have not?

11.  What’s working well?
 What questions do you have?
 What evidence do you see?

13. • Balancing Informational and Literary
Text
• Building Knowledge in the Disciplines
• Staircase of Complexity
• Text-Based Answers
• Writing From Sources
• Academic Vocabulary

14. Grades PK- Grades 6-
5: 12:
50%
Literary 80%
Text Information
al Text by
50% 12th Grade
Information
al Text

16. Balance of Just
Right Text and
Grade Level Text
(with high levels of
support for access
to higher level text)

19. Tier 1 Words:
Common, every Tier 2 Words:
day words Typically not
defined in the
text
Tier 3 Words: Define,
Content area describe,
specific words principled,
theory, etc.

20. “The power of generous amounts of
close purposeful reading, rereading,
writing and talking… these are the
essence of authentic literacy: these
activities are the foundation for a
trained, powerful mind-and a
promising future.”
Mike Schmoker – Results Now,
2006

21. Draw a picture or diagram to show
the relationship between the 6
shifts
-or-
Write a couple of sentences that
explain the connections.

22.  http://engageny.org
 Find curriculum exemplars
◦ The Gettysburg Address
 Scan the exemplar…
◦ Where are the components of effective teaching?
◦ What feedback might you give the writer based on
the components of effective teaching?

24. Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create

25. From… To…
Identify the components of
effective teaching
Label the parts of a cell
Describe the main character
List reasons why water is a
necessary resource
Explain how civilization along
the Nile River progressed over
time

26.  Review your current objectives
 What level of thinking do they address?
 How could they be modified to promote more
critical thinking?

27.  Focus on what is important
 Use explicit cues
What does this sound like?
 Ask inferential questions
 Ask analytic questions