Continuous Professional Development

Penny Plavala, Multnomah ESD

2013-14 Llewellyn Elementary School* 90 min. sessions

#1 Overview of Opinion Writing, CCSS, review samples of student work from “In Common” project

#2Preparing for School-Wide Opinion Writing Baseline Assessment

-review sample prompts, teacher directions

* Homework: give baseline assessment to students

#3 Bring student work, review rubrics, score, track trends

#4 Review results of baseline assessment, identify areas of strength and those to teach

-Penny shares resources for teaching opinion writing

-Teachers bring lesson ideas from their classrooms

# 5 Overview of Smarter Balanced Assessment, Part 1

# 6 Overview of Smarter Balanced Assessment, Part 2

2014-15 Llewellyn Elementary School* 90 min. sessions

#1 Overview of Informative Writing, Review samples of student work from “In Common” project

Preparing for School-Wide Informative Writing Baseline Assessment

-review sample prompts, teacher directions

* Homework: give baseline assessment to students

#2Bring student work, review rubrics, score, track trends

#3 Review results of baseline assessment, identify areas of strength and those to teach

-Penny shares resources for teaching informative writing

-Teachers bring lesson ideas from their classrooms

# 4 Overview of Constructed Response Questions, write questions for a piece of text from your

classroom = baseline assessment

* Homework: give constructed response baseline assessment to students

#5Bring student work, review rubrics, score, track trends

#6 Penny brings ideas for teaching students to answer constructed response questions. Teachers

create mini-lessons reviewing the skills for success

Next steps:

• Create a mini performance assessment with: two pieces of text, two CR questions, and a writing prompt (Grades 2-5)

Ideas

• Customized PD for each building – work with principal and teacher leaders

• I might target the session by grade level: K-2 or 3-5

• Mentoring – practice – feedback (coaching cycle translated to PD)

•The Teaching and Learning Cycle – is a good support piece

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