COLLINS INSTITUTE
OPEN RESPONSE: 18 STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE STUDENT
PERFORMANCE IN ALL SUBJECTS
(grades,
content, & length may vary by location)
For teachers in
grades 3 to 10 in all subject areas, curriculum coordinators,
principals, supervisors, curriculum committee members, school-based
management team members, and special educators.
This Institute provides practical strategies and
techniques for teachers as well as students. The activities will
assist teachers in analyzing standardized tests, enabling them to
plan purposeful writing assignments that align with common core
standards. It also provides teachers with a variety of activities
that will help students read questions and/or passages for
understanding, plan and write high quality responses, and score and
revise their answers based on specific state rubrics in all content
areas. The strategies focus on critical reading and writing skills
and, without teaching to the test, help prepare students for
standardized tests.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN
HOW TO . . .
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Analyze state tests and their questions
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Identify and teach process words
(test question vocabulary) that improve students’ ability to
understand open response questions
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Recognize and teach content
vocabulary that enhances open response answers
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Develop and integrate questions
that align with common core standards and state tests in all
content subjects
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Create and incorporate on a
regular basis open response questions that require understanding
of content
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Design prewriting activities to
yield high quality open response answers
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Facilitate activities which will
help students “dissect” open response questions
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Help students evaluate and revise
their own open response answers using specific rubrics
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Combine and integrate workshop
content with daily writing in all content subjects without
teaching to the test
NOTE: A one
graduate credit option is available for our
two
day institutes through Endicott College in Beverly, MA.
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