Children Have the Right to Say!
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Dr. Michael Kopish & Dr. Alison Wenhart
Plymouth State University
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Standards
Common
Core
• Skill-based:
Focused on
Reading,
Writing,Speaking
and Listening
C3
Standards
Influencing
Social Studies
• Content and
Literacy Skills
• Content-driven
themes
NCSS
State
Standards
District or
School
Level
• Content-driven
• Vary by site
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Learning Progression
• QAR
• Bloom's Questions
• Anticipation Guide
• Coding
Reading
Writing
• narrative
• descriptive
• expository
• Socratic Seminar
• SAC
• Deliberation
Speaking
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Should schools
adopt zero
tolerance
policies to
promote
school safety?
What questions come to mind when
you view this image?
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What questions come to mind when
you view this image?
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Keys for Designing Issues-Based Units
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Aims for planning:
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Controversial issues
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Current events
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Relevant to students
Guide instruction through questions:
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Policy level issues
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Sub issues (e.g., factual, definitional, ethical, legal)
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Types of Issues-Based Questions for
Planning
Type of Issue:
Questions:
Policy:
Should schools adopt zero tolerance policies to
promote school safety?
Sub-issues
Definitional
Which offenses are most often subject to zero
tolerance policies?
What is a “zero tolerance” policy?
Ethical
Is justice applied fairly to youth?
Factual
Legal
Do zero tolerance policies in schools push youth into
the prison system?
To what extent does the U.S. Constitution protect
youth against unreasonable punishment?
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All teachers make pedagogical choices to best match appropriate
methods and strategies to standards, objectives, and skills.
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KNOWLEDGE OF INSTRUCTIONAL
STRATEGIES
• QAR
• Bloom's Questions
• RAFT
• Paired Reading
Reading
Writing
• narrative
• descriptive
• expository
• Socratic Seminar
• SAC
• Deliberation
Speaking
Best practices from the field of social studies
Kopish and Wenhart (2013) Children Have
the Right to Say!
Should schools
adopt zero
tolerance
policies to
promote
school safety?
Reading Strategies
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RAFT
Paired
Reading
QAR
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Activating Prior
Knowledge
Summarizing
Generating
questions
Answering
questions
Using graphic
organizers
Monitoring
Comprehension
Reading Strategies
Strategy: Question-Answer
Relationship
In the book
Think and
search
Author and me
On my own
• The answer is stated directly in the text.
• The answer is in the text but is not stated directly. The
reader interprets the meaning from different parts of
the text.
• The answer is not in the text. The reader must read the
text in order to answer, but must use personal
knowledge with the information provided by the author.
• The answer is not in the text. The reader must develop
the answer based on knowledge and personal
experiences only.
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QAR - Example
Type of QAR Question
Issue Category
In the book – The answer is Factual
stated directly in the text.
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Example
Which offenses are most
often subject to zero
tolerance policies?
Alignment of QAR Strategy to Common
Core Standards
Strategy for Reading:
Question and Answer Relationship
Reading 1Read closely to determine what the text says
explicitly and to make logical inferences
from it; cite specific textual evidence when
writing or speaking to support conclusions
drawn from the text.
Reading 2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text
and analyze their development; summarize
the key supporting details and ideas.
Reading 6 –
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes
the content and style of a text.
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Participation
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Infographic of
Roman Technology
• Multimodal text for a
unit on Rome.
• Skill of reading
multimodal text is
transferable across
content area.
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Writing Strategies
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• Recommend three types of writing for middle
school students
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Strategy Attributes: Expository Writing
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Expository Writing Strategy Example
Type of Expository Writing
Process Analysis
Issue Category
Policy
Example
Should schools adopt zero
tolerance policies to
promote school safety?
Example Assignment Prompt:
The lines of youth and adult blur in a pool of blood, but violent crimes in schools
trigger cries for appropriate justice and an end to the age of violence. A question
shoots. Should schools adopt zero tolerance policies to promote school safety? As a
reporter for an online newspaper, your task is to write an informational process
analysis article to explain how zero tolerance policies in schools will or will not
decrease school safety. This article must convey your clear claim towards this justice
process and its implications, while informing and helping the public understand the
related process steps, complex ideas, and information. The article will demonstrate an
effective selection, logical organization, and analysis of content. Also, it must contain
relevant online news and expository appropriate elements, signal phrases, and
graphics. This article will be 2-4 pages and written with careful attention to the
conventions of Standards of English.
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Alignment of Expository Writing to
Common Core Standards
Expository Writing
Writing 2 - Write informative/explanatory
texts to examine and convey complex ideas
and information clearly and accurately
through the effective selection, organization,
and analysis of content.
Writing 6 - Use technology, including the
Internet, to produce and publish writing and
to interact and collaborate with others.
Writing 7 - Conduct short as well as more
sustained research projects based on focused
questions, demonstrating understanding of
the subject under investigation.
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Discussion
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Discussion Methods
Analyze and
evaluate main
ideas, issues,
points of view
Delineate
speakers
argument
Evaluate
multiple and
competing
perspectives
Make and
support claims
with evidence
Pose and
respond to
questions
Structured
Academic
Controversy
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X
X
X
X
Socratic
Seminar
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Deliberation
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Discussion Method: Structured
Academic Controversy
Purpose and Goal
• Explore both sides
of an issue using
cooperative
learning and
evaluate the
strength of
evidence
supporting or
against each
position
Structure of
Discussion
• Students must
argue one side of
an issue, listen to
the other side and
ask clarifying
questions.
Students will then
switch sides and
argue from the
opposing
position.
Eventually
students will
come up with an
agreed upon
solution.
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Ideas for discussion
• Any controversial
issue (i.e. laws,
policies, etc.)
Structured Academic Controversy
1. Students must argue
one side of an issue,
2. listen to the other side
and ask clarifying
questions.
3. Students will then
switch sides and argue
from the opposing
position.
4. Eventually students will
come up with an agreed
upon solution.
Ideas for Discussion:
Any controversial issue (i.e. laws,
policies, etc.)
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Yes, schools should adopt zero tolerance
policies to promote school safety.
No, schools should not adopt zero
tolerance policies to promote school
safety.
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School violence is at a crisis level and
increasing
students of color and students with
Zero tolerance is clear discipline for students
disabilities
and is consistently applied to all students
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Zero tolerance policies are not
Removal of students will create a better
developmentally appropriate for adolescents
school climate for students who remain
and forces students out of school during
Zero tolerance policies deter students from
important years
bad behavior
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Zero tolerance policies unfairly impact
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Zero tolerance policies divert student and
Parents support zero tolerance to ensure
educational resources to security technology
student safety
and security personnel
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Zero tolerance policies place tremendous
strain financially and on the mental health of
students and families
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Disciplinary alternatives may be better suited
to promote school safety
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Alignment of SAC to Common Core
Standards
Structured Academic Controversy
Speaking and Listening 1 - Prepare for and
participate effectively in a range of
conversations and collaborations with diverse
partners, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Speaking and Listening 2. Integrate and
evaluate information presented in diverse
media and formats, including visually,
quantitatively, and orally.
Speaking and Listening 3 - Evaluate a
speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of
evidence and rhetoric.
Kopish and Wenhart (2013) Children Have
the Right to Say!
Kopish and Wenhart (2013) Children Have
the Right to Say!