Aligning the Central Focus

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Familiarizes teacher candidates with vocabulary terms required for Learning Segment alignment.

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Nancy Peterson

United States

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Matching Pairs Aligning the Central FocusOnline version Familiarizes teacher candidates with vocabulary terms required for Learning Segment alignment. by Nancy Peterson 1 Objectives 2 Related Skills 3 The Central Focus 4 Standards 5 The Central Focus Statement 6 Reading and Writing Connections 7 Alignment 8 Essential Literacy Strategy (ELS) Learning goals, targets, and desired outcomes published and set forth by a state or larger "umbrella" entity, prescribed as content and articulated as the purposes for teaching and learning in every grade level Skills that students need in order to 1) develop an understanding of the essential literacy strategy, and 2) to be able to apply it. Goals, target behaviors, and desired outcomes articulated as the purpose and intention of teaching and learning in your segment; may differ slightly from lesson to lesson. The "big idea," the overarching, universal concept that is the umbrella covering, or the foundation undergirding the literacy learning you will facilitate. For elementary edTPA purposes, it will be either COMPREHENSION for a reading segment, or COMPOSITION for a writing segment. The specific strategy for comprehending text (in a reading segment), or for composing text (in a writing segment); it is included in the central focus STATEMENT, and is addressed across all of the lessons in your learning segment. A paragraph explaining the Central Focus for the learning segment, including subject specific components of the ELS and Related Skills, and how they are tied together; this is the only term of these eight that is NOT addressed in the lesson plans. A statement in your lesson plans pointing out the mutually-complementary writing OR reading tasks and activities that that you've integrated with your content and instruction, and which support and enhance the writing or reading objectives of your learning segment A pattern of consistency between the central focus, assigned tasks, stated goals, desired knowledge, acquired skills, and planned strategies that drive the learning segment

Matching Pairs

Aligning the Central FocusOnline version

Familiarizes teacher candidates with vocabulary terms required for Learning Segment alignment.

Objectives

Related Skills

The Central Focus

Standards

The Central Focus Statement

Reading and Writing Connections

Alignment

Essential Literacy Strategy (ELS)

Learning goals, targets, and desired outcomes published and set forth by a state or larger "umbrella" entity, prescribed as content and articulated as the purposes for teaching and learning in every grade level

Skills that students need in order to 1) develop an understanding of the essential literacy strategy, and 2) to be able to apply it.

Goals, target behaviors, and desired outcomes articulated as the purpose and intention of teaching and learning in your segment; may differ slightly from lesson to lesson.

The "big idea," the overarching, universal concept that is the umbrella covering, or the foundation undergirding the literacy learning you will facilitate. For elementary edTPA purposes, it will be either COMPREHENSION for a reading segment, or COMPOSITION for a writing segment.

The specific strategy for comprehending text (in a reading segment), or for composing text (in a writing segment); it is included in the central focus STATEMENT, and is addressed across all of the lessons in your learning segment.

A paragraph explaining the Central Focus for the learning segment, including subject specific components of the ELS and Related Skills, and how they are tied together; this is the only term of these eight that is NOT addressed in the lesson plans.

A statement in your lesson plans pointing out the mutually-complementary writing OR reading tasks and activities that that you've integrated with your content and instruction, and which support and enhance the writing or reading objectives of your learning segment

A pattern of consistency between the central focus, assigned tasks, stated goals, desired knowledge, acquired skills, and planned strategies that drive the learning segment

You can integrate the game into an LMS compatible with LTI 1.1 or LTI 1.3 such as Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard. This way, the scores will be automatically saved into the platform’s gradebook.

Aligning the Central Focus

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Aligning the Central FocusOnline version

by Nancy Peterson

Objectives

Related Skills

The Central Focus

Standards

The Central Focus Statement

Reading and Writing Connections

Alignment

Essential Literacy Strategy (ELS)

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