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Course Title: Common Core Standards ELA 6-12 Aurora University Course Number: OEDC5215

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= COURSE OVERVIEW = This course is designed to provide an extensive study of the ELA Common Core standards for K-12. This course of study will take a research-based, strategic approach toward equipping teachers to be effective literacy educators in their classrooms. A course emphasis will be on the Common Core State Standards as a foundation for rigorous literacy tasks in an effort to increase student achievement.
 * 1. Catalog Description **

The course aim is to provide a research-based platform on which teachers can master a variety of techniques to improve student literacy in reading informational texts; reading literature; speaking and listening; writing; and language usage. Key components of this course will be the investigation of the six major shifts of the ELA Common Core Standards: Balancing informational and literary texts; building knowledge in the disciplines; staircase of complexity; text-based answers; writing from sources; and academic vocabulary. Participants will also deconstruct and analyze specific grade-level standards to create effective and rigorous tasks for student learning. Participants will identify and access key resources to deepen their knowledge and level of implementation of the common core standards in their classrooms.
 * 2. Course Overview **

The primary teaching method used in this course will be mini-lecture, with small group discussions and interactive activities designed to increase understanding and promote implementation of the common core standards. Participants will have intrapersonal and interpersonal opportunities to process the information.
 * 3. Teaching Methods **

= COURSE GOALS =

As a result of this course participants will be able to: Address the ELA Common Core Standards for all Teachers and the Content Area Reading Standards specific to particular disciplines; address the relevant [|common][|core][|standards].* Address the Illinois State Reading Specialist Standards, 1A, 1B, 1C, IG, and 1K, if applicable.*  *Will be referenced in class session.
 * Unpack the common core state standards specific to their grade level.
 * Design lessons to address multiple ELA standards in more than one strand.
 * Explore resources and develop a binder or instructional strategies for close reading and argumentative writing.
 * Revise existing lessons to include strategic and extended thinking.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Conduct a close reading of the common core standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Utilize the Depth of Knowledge Chart and Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy in the unpacking of Common Core standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Critique the importance of academic vocabulary.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jigsaw the clarifying information found in the Common Core Standards and Appendices.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Define three factors of text complexity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Analyze text complexity based on given passages
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Experience and evaluate several common core exemplar lessons

= SESSION OBJECTIVES AND RESOURCES = > **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 2: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 1: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Building a Foundation: Understanding the Organization of the Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Anchor Standards Activity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Text Complexity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lexile Ranges
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Three legs of text complexity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Deconstructing Reading Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Annotating the Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Using Explicit Detail & Inference Skills to Target the Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Facilitated Work Session
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Close Reading Activity
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Six Shifts in Literacy Expectations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Six Shifts in chart form
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Realities of Education and Student Achievement in the United States
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Change in Expectations for Teachers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Change in Expectations for Parents
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Appendix B: Exemplar Texts & Performance Tasks
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Question, Answer, Relationship
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Rule Strategy
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Facilitated Work Session
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Reading & Writing Connection
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">PARCC Model Content Frameworks
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Targeting the Writing Standards
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 3: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Appendix C
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Using Appendix C to generate rubrics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Using existing resources to generate writing prompts
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Facilitated Work Session
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Listening, Speaking Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Language Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Collaborative Common Core Lessons
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Session 4: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">5 Things Every Teacher Should Be Doing to Meet the Common Core Standards
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Resource and Common Core Lesson Presentations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">3-2-1 and other Reflection Strategies

= ASSIGNMENTS & EVALUATION =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Assignments:**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Conduct a close read of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Deconstruct five ELA Common Core Standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Design one collaborative lesson and one independent lesson which incorporate multiple Common Core ELA standards.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Present collaborative and independent lessons.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Research and present at least three Common Core ELA resources.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The following activities and or projects in the course will carry these percentage weights in regard to the final course grade:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20 % Class attendance* and participation (20 points) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20% Independent CC Lesson (20 points) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20% Collaborative CC Lesson (20 points) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20% Research and Presentation of Resources (20 points) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">20 % In class activities as defined by instructor (20 points) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> * see attendance policy.

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