Student Instruction

PLC- Professional Learning Community

Ongoing process where the teachers work collaboratively to further engage students

Issues- Struggling student falls behind so the whole class falls behind
Solution- Raise awareness of students learning abilities, address students learning immediately, require students to get help rather than simply ask and collaborate with other teacher and students to help the individual.

Characteristics of PLC

• Shared values and vision
• focus on examining outcomes to improve learning
• supportive and shared leadership
• shared personal practices

Practices of PLC

• staff meetings 
• frequent testing for student growth 
• discuss student learning as teams 
• practice tests

RTI- Response to Intervention

What is it? A multiple tiered approach to help struggling learners
 Struggling learners are provided with interventions at increasing levels of intensity to accelerate their learning rate

Tier 1 (Core Instructional Interventions)
-Used to ensure that a student's diffuculties are not die to inadequate instruction
-"At Risk" students

Tier 2 (Targeted Group Interventions)
-Students are provided with increasingly intensive instruction to move their need of performance and progress rates

Tier 3 (Intense Individual Interventions)

PBIS- Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

• A decision making framework that guides selection, integration, and implementation of the best evidence-based academic behavioral practices for improving important academic and behavior outcomes for all students

Associated Outcomes Within the Learning Environment

1. Less reactive, aversive, dangerous, and exclusionary
2. More engaging, responsive, preventitive, and productive
3. Address classroom management and disciplinary issues (attendance, tardies, antisocial behavior Etc.)
4. Improve supports for students whose behaviors require more specialized assistance (emotional, behavioral disorders, mental health)
5. Maximize academic engagement and achievement for all students

Implementation:
-Establish leadership team
-80% of staff must be committed
-Self assessment
-Collective data analysis
-Data driven decisions
-Evaluate impact
-Clear expectations and procedures
-Encourage expected behavior
-Consistent rules and outlines

Responsive Classroom
(group activity)
Classroom Practices
-Morining meetings
-Rule Creation
Interactive Modeling
Positive teacher language etc.

UBD- Understanding by Design 

What is UBD? 
-Main goal is to focus curriculum and teaching to develop students understanding. To deepen students understanding, not only for the test but also for life.

UBD promotes a backwards design process that begins with identifying the enduring understanding that students should carry from the class

Implementation

-Whole school reform effort
-Lesson plans would be written in a backwards manner
-Teaching would have to [participate in the qualitative research methedologies 

Common Core State Standards
Implemented June 2, 2010 - not in all states but majority of the students (some states only participated in math or English not both)

Criteria for Creating Core Standards
-Aligned with college and work expectations
-Include rigorous content and application of knowledge throught high-order skills
-Build upon strenghts and lessons of current state standards
-Informed by top[preforming countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and evidence and/or research based

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
What is UDL?- curriculum that can be used by everyone, studies leaning neurologically

Why is it necessary? Students should be treated as individuals within the classroom and not put into a one size fits all classroom

 Based off of three principles- What/ How/ Why

What- perception, language, expression, symbols and comprehension
How- Physical action, expression and communication, executive finction
Why- Gaining interest, sustaining effort and persistence, self-regulation


Partnership for 21st Century Skills
-National organization dedicated to 21st century readiness for each student
-Learning life skills along with reading writing and arithmetic
Example: Students work in small groups to select an existing graphic novel and create alternative endings to  the story using animation

DBAE- Discipline Based Art Education


Visual Culture Studies
What is it? The study of images-- asking question about why it is a famous image (Why did Warhol screen print Marilyn Monroe?)


-Understanding other messages and their own
-Understanding peer work
-Explain the importance of symbolism


"Teaching children about Visual Culture helps them to not only create deeper meaning in their own artwork, but better understand the images in the world around them. Classrooms that utilize Visual Cultural Studies encourage critical analysis, abstract thinking, open discussion and personal reflection."



Walker Art Center- New Elements and Principles of Design


Reason: contemporary art goes beyond the traditional elements and principles of art

1. Appropriation- making new art through borrowing of pre-existing image
   
2. Time-
3. Performance-refers to an activity that is related to motion or actions and process that are presented to an audience and can be a mix. either a type of dance, acting and poetry etc.
   
4. Space
5. Hybridity- Idea of mixing qualities of two different things in order to make the overall piece better

-Important for teachers to remember and use these words in daily practice and remind students of the terms and recommend student use