Evening SessionVideo Professional

Development: Common Core in Action

The EngageNY Video Project

Session Objectives

Participants will be able to articulate concrete

approaches to leverage Common Core Videos in

order to:

A. Lead professional development

B. Generate professional conversations around

these videos

C. Calibrate around effective and aligned

Common Core practice

Please make sure…

• You are sitting with your BOCES and/or JMT’s

The tables are labeled

Please make sure you are sitting

with your BOCES and/or JMT’s

The tables are labeled

Professional Development Reflection

What implemented PD supports are going well? What is on the horizon to be accomplished and

what are your next steps? What threats/roadblocks/challenges are

anticipated to continue this PD work?

Please capture these reflections on your chart paper

Video Professional Development: Common Core in

ActionMaterials • Professional

development protocol• Collection template • Guiding reflection

questions

2 videos • First video is free of any

captions highlighting evidence of Common Core alignment

• Second video includes captions that highlight when the task or teacher move is illustrating Common Core aligned instruction

Video Professional Development: Common Core in Action

Exercise Part 1 (10 minutes) View video 1 Record running evidence on Collection Template – both teacher and student

actions – with timestamps (this will help with discussion.) (3-5 minutes) Independently answer guiding reflection questions. Evidence Comparison Round.  While listening to evidence, look to see if you also have the same evidence (20 minutes) (2 minutes total/30 seconds each) Each person in the group shares response

to the first guiding reflection question (2 minutes) Compare evidence for each guiding question.  What evidence

did all group members indicate? What evidence should be added to your own list? What evidence should be retagged to another area in the guiding questions, and why?

Repeat a & b for remaining questionsExercise Part 2: Group calibration (10 minutes) View video 2 and Guiding Reflection Questions; compare evidence collection

template with the highlighted captions. (5 minutes total/1min each) Share something learned from calibration

exercise. (5 minutes total/1 minute each) Each person in the group shares response to

the extension question.  

Video Professional Development: Common Core in

ActionMathematics Video: Grade 4https://www.engageny.org/resource/common-core-instruction-solving-addition-and-subtraction-word-problems-with-tape-diagrams

ELA Video: Grade 4https://www.engageny.org/resource/making-inferences-using-non-fiction-text

Video Professional Development Reflections

How did it go?  

What was the experience like?

How could you improve it or make it work for

your audience?

Return to your PD Reflection chart paper What did you learn or plan from tonight’s

activities that you plan to implement to address

the threats to PD work?  

Professional Development Reflection

Feedback on Video Professional Development: Common Core in

Action• Visit this evening’s session location on Engageny.org and click the link to the survey

• Provide us feedback about what works well about the tools and ideas for upgrades on our next version

• Your feedback and ideas are helpful

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