Mabank New TEKS & Integration Ideas
May/June 2019
Welcome!
Agenda 4 the Day
8:30am Start Time
Morning Session
- New TEKS
- Integration
- Content knowledge
11:15 am to 12:30pm LUNCH
Afternoon Session
- Unit Planning
- Scheduling Frameworks
3:30pm End Time
Social
Who Are My Learners Today?
- 1 Picture
- 3 Words
- GO!
"If you don't know where you are going, you will end up some place else." -Yogi Berra
Goals for Today
- Understand and implement the new TEKS for 2019-2020
- Understand the new TEKS by strand
- Plan for intentional instruction
- Produce a curriculum document using the district's new template
What's Next?
- Plan model lessons for each unit of study
Quick Write:
What are you hoping to get out of today?
30 seconds to think /3 Minutes to write
The New TEKS for ELAR
- Strands
- Integration
Language development should be integrated for Social & Academic development.
Talking
Listening
Reading
Talking
Listening
Writing
Listening
Reading
Talking
Writing
Talking
Listening
Writing
Reading
"A vision of what curriculum should include, RATHER than a list of important knowledge and skills."
"Provide a coherent structure to guide mindful teaching meaningful learning." -V.Y.
Teacher expertise is key!
"Text complexity increases with challenging vocabulary, sophisticated sentence structures, nuanced text features, cognitively demanding content, and subtle relationships among ideas."
Task: Study the Strands for Your Grade Level
What are the big ideas?
What is most important?
Using Hashtags to respond. #thinking #noticings #bigideas #mostimportant
Where are your students coming from & where are they going?
Looking @ vertical alignment
How do we Integrate?
Modeling
Quick Writes
Writing everyday in every content area
Ideas
Reading
- Genre?
- Texts?
- Comprehension skills
- Responding tasks
- Research or team work task
- Videos
- Reader's theaters
- Media Literacy
- Field Trips
- Guest speakers
- Parent involvement
- Final Products (showcase)
Writing
- Genre
- Author study
- Small writing tasks
- Final writing task (showcase)
- Author's craft
- Conventions
Word Study:
- vocabulary
- phonemic awareness
- word study
- spelling skills
https://youtu.be/V59psMbygfI
https://youtu.be/Pq3oI2V3QJ8
Author's Craft
"Good writers are good readers and good readers are good writers."
It's All About the THINKING!
Task: Brainstorm Unit Ideas
What units of study could you teach?
*Make a list with your grade level*
BT
The Wish List
What things would you like to see included next year in a YAG and 6 week guides?
- Units
- Texts
-Resources
- Assessments