August+5,+2013

Common Instructional Framework Project Every child reads, writes, thinks, and talks in every classroom, every day! Big Idea/Essential Question The CIF will change the roles of teachers and students. How could teaching the CIF to students affect student roles and learning as well as teacher roles?

The Project Participants will research the CIF strategies and create a presentation to teach the strategies to the whole group. Resources are provided, but the project will require additional resources. The project is based on moving the CIF from the teacher level to the student level, by actually teaching the CIF first to each other as a review and resource gathering project, creating a visual to present to the staff, and then moving to teaching the students the CIF.

The rubric provided will be your guideline. The presentation for each strategy will be determined by the groups. The only requirement for the final project is that technology must be integrated based on the 3 classroom principles: The learning objectives drives the selection of the technology. The technology used adds value to the lesson/project. Technology supports the assessment. Groups and Strategies WTL, CT-Gwen, Sarah, Bruce, History teacher CGW, Q-Ashley, Darnell, Danny LG, S-Canette, Michael, Jonathan, Chelsea

Resources Participants have been invited to join a Google Group where all resources that the Donna has have been shared through Google Drive. There is a folder of files for each strategy that includes the Key Principles and Goals, articles, lesson plans that demonstrate each strategy. These are the beginning resources. Participants are expected to use additional resources and a variety of resources in the project. There are many videos, pictures, and thousands of articles available on the web for each strategy. A folder of protocols have been included that can be used to increase student engagement. The CIF rubric is also located in the folder, but can be accessed from this page as well. Rubrics 

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Brainstorming of CIF for students <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">August 26, Sept 30, Oct. 21 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Presentations  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Journaling/Raft  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Lesson Plans for CIF