Mandatory Staff Development Professional Development 9:00-3:00
October 14, 2011 Lunch 11:30-12:30
Elkin City Schools
October 14, 2011
Mandatory Staff Development Agenda
9:00 a.m. -3:00 p.m.
Lunch 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
MATH Professional DevelopmentK-12 Math Teachers, K-12 EC Teachers, ESL Teachers
Location: EESMediaCenter
Agenda Topics: Math practices, Critical Areas, New Common Core Standards
What To Bring: Common Core Standards, Unpacking Documents,
Pacing Guides/Unit Plans/Lesson Plans
Pacing Guide templates will be provided or you may bring one you already use.
Morning session will be whole group. Afternoon session will be breakout groups by grade level/grade clusters.
ELA, SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES, PE, ARTS, MEDIA
Professional Development
6 -12 Teachers from areas listed above
Location: EHSMediaCenter
Agenda Topics: Understanding the Standards, Specific content standard analysis, Comparing the “old” and “new” standards
What To Bring: Common Core Standards, Unpacking Documents,
Pacing Guides/Unit Plans/Lesson Plans
Pacing Guide templates will be provided or you may bring one you already use.
Morning session will be whole group. Afternoon session will be breakout groups by grade level/grade clusters.
CTE and ROTC
Professional Development
9-12 teachers from areas listed above
Location: EHS CTE Wing Woodie Lab and Foods Lab
Agenda Topics: Literacy and Numeracy Strategies
What to Bring: Toolbox for Literacy and Numeracy Strategies, Course Blueprints
To view the standards, unpacking documents, and toolkits, please visit
Navigate to your area by using the tabs under CommonCoreState and NC Essential Standards. Please bring a copy of your standards and unpacking documents to the professional development.
My Personal Connection to My New Curriculum
Participants: All content area teacher’s grades 6-12, except math teachers. Math teachers K-12 will meet in the elementary school media center.
What to Bring: Copy of your Common Core or Essential Standards
Copy of your Unpacking Documents
Pacing guide/Unit plans/Timeline
Session I: Understanding the Standards Module (approximately 45 minutes)
Session II: Navigate to your content standards for the remaining section of this module. Breakout groups are listed below.
Content / Facilitator / Location/Room # / ParticipantsELA & Guidance / Swarey / Classroom / Meek, Morrison, Burton, Gentry, Hendrix. Calhoun, Osment
SC / Jones / Classroom / Simmons, Poindexter, Bennett, McComb, Boulware
SS / Beshears / EMS Computer Lab / Culler, Erickson, Milsaps, Pelkey, Lloyd
PE / Foster / MediaCenter / Rycroft, Thornburg, Duncan, Hinson
Arts / Smith / Swisher’s Lab / Land, Powell Minton
World Languages / Estrada / Classroom / Estrada
CTE & ROTC / Long / Woodie’s Lab / Burgess, Hooper, Woodie, Felts, Swisher, Edwards, Teague, McCulloch, Crosswhite, McGrew, Abrams
Session III: Meet with your content area teachers to complete the guiding questions and culminating activity. *Grades 6-8 will meet separately from grades 9-12.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
□ I have looked at the old and new standards in my content area.
□ I have identified standards in my old curriculum I no longer am responsible to teach.
□ I have identified standards in my new curriculum I am responsible for teaching for the first time ever.
□ I understand what I am supposed to teach for the 2011-2012 school year.
□ I have identified a list of resources I currently have that will help me prepare students for learning the new curriculum.
□ I have identified a list of resources I need in order to teach the new curriculum.
□ Now that I have reviewed my new curriculum, I am ready to plan my pacing for the first nine weeks.
□ I have a working document that can serve as my first nine week pacing guide for teaching the new curriculum.
Culminating Activity: Several examples of pacing guides have been provided. Choose one document that best fits your learning/teaching style or you may design your own for this activity. This should be a plan of how you will cover the Essential Standards to Core Curriculum per nine weeks.
As you look at what you have taught the first nine weeks and compare it to the new curriculum, complete a rough draft pacing guide utilizing the new standards.
It will be a work in progress throughout this school year, and we may all be asked to transfer final work on a universal template/pacing guide.
Please submit a copy of your work to your session facilitator as your “ticket out the door.”
Standards I have identified in my old curriculum I no longer have to teach.Standards I have identified in my new curriculum I am responsible for teaching for the first time.
Resources I have identified I need in order to teach the new curriculum.