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Aurora University Course Number: OEDP 5184
 * Course Title: Language Arts Common Core Standards **
 * Embedding Disciplinary Literacy Practice within Instruction **

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= COURSE OVERVIEW =

This course is intended for 4-12 teachers of language arts, English, or social studies/history and will provide educators with an understanding of the expectations and rigor explicit in and implicit to the Common Core State Literacy Standards (CCSS) for informational text. The course will provide participants with skills in selecting appropriate teaching and learning texts, developing lesson plans that incorporate close reading, applying differentiated reading and thinking strategies to meet the needs of diverse students, utilizing the three CCSS appendices, communicating CCSS objectives with students, and evaluating student performance.
 * 1. Catalog Description **

Participants will use close reading strategies to examine K-12 grade level CCSS standards in reading and writing and identify clear targets for literacy skills at various grade-levels. Participants will explore text dependent connections between the reading, writing, and speaking standards and develop one instructional unit that provides differentiated means aligned to CCSS goals by which students may develop and demonstrate proficiencies in reading, writing, and/or speaking.
 * 2. Course Overview **

The Common Core State Standards, including the three appendices, are the main focus of the course. However, noting that the CCSS explicitly state that they “but do not define the intervention methods or materials necessary to support students who are well below or well above grade-level expectations” and further noting that these students populate today’s classrooms, concepts and practices of differentiated instruction will also be incorporated into the learning through reading, practice and discussion.

Course sessions are designed for discussion and application of course content. Some direct teaching will occur, but most learning will take place through the involvement of participants with the Common Core texts and applications of differentiated pedagogies. Throughout all sessions, the instructor will model best practices in literacy instruction and differentiated techniques through teaching methods and course assignments.
 * 3. Teaching Methods **

Regional Office LaSalle County Dates: June 4-8, 2012 The workshop will begin at 8:00 am and end at 4:30 pm each day, with a break for lunch on your own. In order to get 45 CPDUs you must do assignments outside of class. For more details download the syllabus from the ROE web site. Go to the home page and click on Professional Development/Graduate Classes. Bring the syllabus with you to the first class. No textbooks are required, however, a week before the start date handouts will be posted on the ROE website, where the syllabus is, for you to bring to class. If you would like to take this for graduate credit from Aurora University there is an additional fee of $300, making the total amount $650. Checks should be payable to the LaSalle County Regional Office of Education.
 * 4. Schedules **

Regional Office Rock Island County Dates: June 18, 19, 25 & 26, 2012 The workshop will begin at 8:30 am and end at 3:00 pm each day, with a break for lunch on your own. You will earn 24 CPDUs. For those interested in earning 3 semester hours of graduate credit, there will be an additional tuition fee of $300 through Aurora University due on the first day of class and some additional homework. Checks should be payable to the Rock Island County Regional Office of Education.

= COURSE GOALS =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A major goal of this course is to develop an instructional unit that incorporates suggested Common Core texts, differentiated theory, and integration of reading, writing and speaking. Therefore, in addition to classroom discussions and differentiated activities to reinforce learning, the following assignments will be used to assess participant’s proficiencies in application of Common Core Standards:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will develop a unit of study focusing on one or two texts (whichever is developmentally appropriate in relation to CCSS and current teaching assignment) that incorporates reading, writing, and speaking instruction aligned to the CCSS, provides opportunities for differentiation, and results in the production of an assessable project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1. Classroom Research Project **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In accordance with the CCSS emphasis on a variety of writing across all disciplines, participants will maintain a Journal that shows their ability to be critical readers and thinkers. The Journal should include a variety of responses to reading assignments, session activities, and reflections regarding their unit writing.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">2. Growth Journal (for those receiving graduate credit) **

= OBJECTIVES AND RESOURCES =
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 1 & 2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Common Core State Standards for Reading: Targeting the Standards **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OBJECTIVES: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will work collaboratively to identify or target underlying skills embedded within each of the grade level reading standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will identify at least one grade level disciplinary text and align instruction to that text with three targeted standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will prepare three (differentiated) means of standards practice for each of the three targeted standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will develop one formative assessment aligned to the selected lesson standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will generate one lesson focused on close reading and discussion

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Readings:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. p. 13-14, 39-40, 60-62. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards. Retrieved from []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix C: Samples of Student Writing. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 3 & 4 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Common Core State Standards for Writing: The Reading/Writing Connection **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OBJECTIVES: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will work collaboratively to identify or target underlying skills embedded within each of the grade level writing standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will generate two writing prompts aligned to focus-text Sessions 1 & 2 and align instruction to that text with three targeted College and Career Readiness Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will prepare a scoring rubric for the performance assessment (writing)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will develop two instructional lessons as a means to scaffold writing achievement


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Gallagher, K. (2011). Write like this: Teaching real-world writing through modeling and mentoring texts. Portland, MN: Stenhouse.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. p.18-19, 41-47, 63-64. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards. Retrieved from []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 5 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Organizing for Unit Instruction **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OBJECTIVES: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Using lessons generated from Sessions 1-4, participants will develop a CCSS disciplinary literacy aligned unit
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will develop a pacing and materials chart for unit instruction
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participant will generate baseline assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment to inform instruction and evaluation
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Participants will develop any remaining lessons in addition to those completed Days 1-4

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Readings:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. p.22-23, 48-49. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Appendix A: Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards. Retrieved from []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Additional readings are listed in each class session

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