Evening Session
Video Professional Development:
Common Core in Action
The EngageNY Video Project
Session Objectives
Participants will be able to articulate concrete
approaches to leverage Common Core Videos in
order to:
A. Lead professional development
B. Generate professional conversations around
these videos
C. Calibrate around effective and aligned
Common Core practice
Please Please
make make
sure you
are
sitting
sure…
with
your
BOCES
and/or
JMT’s
• You are sitting with your BOCES and/or JMT’s
The tables
labeled are labeled
Thearetables
Professional Development Reflection
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What implemented PD supports are going well?
What is on the horizon to be accomplished and
what are your next steps?
What threats/roadblocks/challenges are
anticipated to continue this PD work?
Please capture these reflections on your chart paper
Video Professional Development:
Common Core in Action
2 videos
• First video is free of any
captions highlighting
evidence of Common
Core alignment
• Second video includes
captions that highlight
when the task or teacher
move is illustrating
Common Core aligned
instruction
Materials
• Professional
development protocol
• Collection template
• Guiding reflection
questions
Video Professional Development: Common Core in Action
Exercise Part 1 (10 minutes)
 View video 1
 Record running evidence on Collection Template – both teacher and student
actions – with timestamps (this will help with discussion.)
 (3-5 minutes) Independently answer guiding reflection questions.
Evidence Comparison Round. While listening to evidence, look to see if
you also have the same evidence (20 minutes)
 (2 minutes total/30 seconds each) Each person in the group shares
response to the first guiding reflection question
 (2 minutes) Compare evidence for each guiding question. What evidence
did all group members indicate? What evidence should be added to your
own list? What evidence should be retagged to another area in the guiding
questions, and why?
 Repeat a & b for remaining questions
Exercise Part 2: Group calibration (10 minutes)
 View video 2 and Guiding Reflection Questions; compare evidence collection
template with the highlighted captions.
 (5 minutes total/1min each) Share something learned from calibration
exercise.
 (5 minutes total/1 minute each) Each person in the group shares response to
the extension question.
Video Professional Development:
Common Core in Action
Mathematics Video: Grade 4
https://www.engageny.org/resource/common-core-instruction-solving-addition-andsubtraction-word-problems-with-tape-diagrams
ELA Video: Grade 4
https://www.engageny.org/resource/making-inferences-using-non-fiction-text
Video Professional Development
Reflections
 How did it go?
 What was the experience like?
 How could you improve it or make it work for
your audience?
Professional Development Reflection
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Return to your PD Reflection chart paper
What did you learn or plan from tonight’s
activities that you plan to implement to address
the threats to PD work?
Feedback on Video Professional
Development: Common Core in Action
• Visit this evening’s session location on
Engageny.org and click the link to the survey
• Provide us feedback about what works well
about the tools and ideas for upgrades on our
next version
• Your feedback and ideas are helpful
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