ERPD CONTENT FOR ‘15-’16
CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES HAS
LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK.
Our goals for your ERPD experience are simple: we want the professional development you receive to be efficient , personalized and practical . Our pledge to you is that we will only bring you information that has evidence to “back it up.”

ALL ERPD ALIGNS TO
THREE SIMPLE CONCEPTS
1.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
2.
LESSON DESIGN
3.
KNOWING YOUR CONTENT

1.
What have we asked you to do?

Sept: Welcome students into the classroom.
Oct.: Praise kids for the right things.
Feb.: Be kind.
April: Get excited about Capturing Kids’ Hearts.

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2.
What have we asked you to do?

Sept:
Use a bell-ringer to start class.
Oct.:
Practice Gradual Release of Responsibility.
Feb.:
Be intentional about device usage.
April:
Use resources such as your PLC, past student assessment performance, your student EVAAS data, and
Clementi’s lesson template with Bloom’s question stems to design powerful lessons.

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3.
KNOW YOUR
CONTENT
What have we asked you to do?

Sept:
Pick activities that are aligned to course standards.
Oct.:
Help students avoid common misconceptions when learning new content or skills.
Feb.:
Assess students online and use language they’ll encounter on the EOG/EOC/NCFE .
April:
Use resources such as your PLC, the ISS
Curriculum guides, and the state’s released test specifications to teach the correct content for your courses.

You know your content, but the question is: do your students?

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GRADUAL RELEASE OF
RESPONSIBILITY

PRAISE & FEEDBACK

PRAISE & FEEDBACK
Carol Dweck, the author of
Mindset: The New
Psychology of Success , recently published this article about what she really means about praising kids’ effort.

AVOIDING COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
▣ Look at your current and upcoming content.
▣ Analyze assessments for a pattern in missed questions.
▣ Collaborate with your peers and colleagues to a. identify what learning skills or targets cause students to get confused or frustrated b. intentionally select strategies and activities that help students understand the learning skill or target (to avoid frustration and confusion)

Design Great Lessons

Know Your Content
▣ Test Specifications released by NC
▣ ISS Curriculum and Pacing Guides
▣ Read over these, discuss them, talk about the vocabulary of the assessments, etc.
▣ Schoolnet assessments created at March’s job-alike
PD

GREAT TEACHERS = GREAT SCHOOLS
Design Great
Lessons
Build
Relationships
GREAT
TEACHERS
Know
Your Content

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You can find me in
I201, ext. 1405 or at
Natalie_Williams@iss.k12.nc.us