November 17th

High School

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Agenda


Pre-Work

The purposes of your pre-work are to prepare you to share the text your team selected and to build some knowledge around creating a sequence of tasks. For your pre-work, we’d like to ask you to do two things:

1. Work with your school team to complete a Google Slide that describes the text you selected using the rubric from October.

2. Read the excerpt from the chapter, “Collaborative Professional Development to Create Cognitively Demanding Tasks in English Language Arts.” After you have read the chapter, please draft a quick write in response to the following:

· What is one big takeaway about creating tasks from this text?

· What questions are you left with?

You’ll be sharing your quick write when we come together at 6:00 pm.


Please work with your school team to create a slide that describes the text you selected using the rubric from your October Bridge to Practice.

6_Petrosky_Mihalakis Exceprt.pdf

Cognitively Demanding Tasks

Please read the linked text and then compose a quick write in reponse to the following:

  • What is one big takeaway about creating tasks from this text?

  • What questions are you left with?

Materials for our Work Together

Please work with your parnter to complete a slide based on your discussion.

Working as a School Team to Create an Arc of Questions

TS_Create Task Questions

Task Sheet: Creating Questions

Please work with your school team to complete the task sheet. As you write each question, take a step back and work on the response for that question. After working on each response, talk about:

  1. Is the question you created truly text-based? In other words, does it require students to work with evidence from across the text to respond to the question or can the question be answered without having read the text or having read the whole text?

  2. Is the question cognitively demanding? Do students need to grapple with the content of the text to respond or is the question just hard to answer (hard for an adult or hard for a student)?

Resources for Writing Questions

Task Analysis Guide.pdf

Task Analysis Guide


4_E_Question Types with Tips

Question Types


Vargas_10202022.pdf

"The Master Narrative"

I've included this text in case you need a text to work with (or have decided to work with this text).

Sample Sequences of Questions

Sequence of Tasks_ Lolo

"Lolo's No Choke"

01_Sequence Tasks_Joyas_2018_1105_FM.pdf

"Joyas Voladoras"

2 Sequence of Tasks_ Ain't I a woman

"Ain't I a Woman?"

Example of scaffolding without reducing the cognitive demand

Non Scaffolded Gregory_Comprehension_05142021

Base Task Sheet


Scaffolded Gregory_Comprehension_09092021-2.pdf

Scaffolded Reading


EML Gregory_Comprehension_05142021

EML Scaffolds


Copy of 3_Woodson_Comprehension Task Sheet_v2.pdf

Base Task Sheet


01_Woodson_Comprehension Task Sheet_20210104.pdf

Scaffolded Reading


Bridge to Practice

The purpose of this bridge to practice is for you to continue to work on the questions that you've developed for the text you've selected.

  • Continue to develop questions if you did not finish crafting questions during our session.

  • Revise the questions as needed based on the feedback you received on any continued discussions you have with your school team during your PLC.

  • Try your hand at crafting a comprehension task sheet. You'll have an opporutnity to share the task sheet with the group when we meet again in January.


Please let us know if you have any questions and have a great break!

Sara, Glenn, & Tony


Meeting Reflection