Agenda

• Announcements:
• CCSS Document
• Selection/Censorship
• January 21, 2014- PD 
• Follett Shelf 
• BCPL Partnership/SAIL card 
• Your Concerns 
• Improving Our Professional Practice: Lesson Planning and Instruction

LESSON PLANNING

• Highlights of the 4 Domains of the Danielson Framework 
• Revised Elementary Library Media Lesson Plan Template
• K-5 Library Media Curriculum (Groupsite login required)  |  Elementary Online Research Models 
• AASL/Common Core State Standards Crosswalk | AASL Lesson Plan Database
• MD School Library Media State Curriculum K-8  
• MD Common Core State Curriculum Frameworks for Reading/ELA
  (may be useful for writing Objectives) 
• Reading Informational Text K-2  |  Reading Informational Text Gr 3-5
• Reading Literature K-2  |  Reading Literature 3-5 
• Consult with content area teachers (ELA/SS/Science) to determine whether/to what extent skills or content have been covered in class, or refer to the Office website/intranet site to access content curricula. 
• Language Arts |  Social Studies  | Science

ASSESSMENT

• Assessment/Evidence Types:
• Closed-ended selected response (e.g., multiple choice, matching, true/false)
• Open-ended constructed response (e.g., fill-in-the-blank, short answer, label, graphic)
• Products (e.g., essay, model, project)
• Performances (e.g., speech, recital, demonstration)
• Process-focused (e.g., conferences, observations, logs - document this evidence in writing for individual students!)
• Reflective Assessment (e.g., journal reflection, logs, listen-think-pair-share activities, portfolio)
• Portfolio (e.g., collections of products, performances, artifacts, tests)
• Exit Tickets 
• Revised Bloom's Taxonomy 
• 27 Simple Ways to Check for Understanding 

READING INSTRUCTION

• AASL Resources:
• Position Statement on the School Librarian's Role in Reading
• School Librarian's Role in Reading Toolkit - Scenarios | Self-Assessment 
• BCPS Reading/Language Arts resources:
• Lesson Planner for Reading
• Reading Skill Charts 
• Strategy Blacklines 
• K-5 Language Arts Curriculum Frameworks 2013-14 
• Into the Book 
• Reading Rockets

LESSON STUDY/MAKE-OVER

• Lesson Makeover: Grade 3, Unit 2 - Lesson 4  
• Use the revised Elementary Library Media Lesson Plan Template to revise/expand one or more lessons from the units listed below, or any other K-5 Library Media Curriculum lesson of your choice. You may work with a partner or in a small group.
• Grade 1/Unit 5: Living in a Community 
• Grade 2/unit 9: Caldecott 
• Think about:  Clear, well-worded objective aligned to AASL/CCSS? Rigor? Assessment? (evidence? documentation?) SUMMARY/REFLECTION!
• Share your lesson "make-overs" with your colleagues!
• Name and save your file using this format:  Gr#_Unit#_Lesson#_Lastname_Lastname 
• Upload your lesson revision to the Revised Lesson Plans folder to share.