Addressing Classroom
Realities
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Purpose of this Session
• Participants will be able to:
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Preserve the continuity and scaffolding
embedded in the modules while addressing the
realities of participants’ classrooms of diverse
learners.
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Considerations for Module and
Lesson Prioritization and Planning
• What are the top priorities for my students?
• Which standards represent areas for student
growth?
• How can I pace the curriculum?
• What can I eliminate?
• What processes can help me determine how to
prioritize and adapt?
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Module-Level Considerations for
Adaptation
• Instructional shifts
• Significant curriculum elements
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Focus/Assessed standards
Text selections
Length of units (# of lessons)
Performance assessment
• Factors that impact prioritization of content
and instruction
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Student needs
Time constraints
Resources
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Module-Level Considerations for
Adaptation
• Which standards represent areas for student
growth?
• Review the 11.1 Module Overview to consider:
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When are standards introduced?
What are students required to know/be able to do
and when?
What will you lose if you work with particular texts
or standards and not others?
How will you need to modify major unit/module
assessments?
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Considerations for Adaptation:
Module-Level Tool
• Individually identify significant constraints and
needs of your students and work through
considerations for prioritizing and adapting.
• Discuss responses in critical pairs/triads to
refine your recommendations for adaptations.
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Consider: With each adaptation, what do you
gain? What do you lose?
• Debrief at your tables.
• Share with the larger group.
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Unit- and Lesson-Level
Considerations for Adaptation
• Significant elements of
a unit/lesson
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Assessed/addressed
standards
Texts
Unit/lesson
assessments
Annotation
Reading processes
Question sequences
Vocabulary
Homework
Pacing
• Factors that impact
implementation
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Student needs
Time constraints
Resources
Unit-Level Considerations for
Adaptation
• How can you adapt units to support student
needs and address constraints? Review the
11.1 Unit Overview to consider:
o What are the mid- and end-of-unit assessments?
– Which standards are assessed in the mid- and end-of-unit
assessments?
– Which lessons scaffold explicitly toward the unit
assessments?
o Which lessons focus on high-need standards for your
students?
– Are these the same lessons that most explicitly scaffold
toward the mid- and end-of-unit assessments?
» If not, how can you adapt the lessons or the assessments to
ensure continuity and preserve or provide scaffolding?
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Lesson-Level Considerations for
Adaptation
• How can you adapt individual lessons to
support student needs and address
constraints?
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Review 11.1.1 Lesson 5 to consider:
• What are high-leverage parts of lesson sequences?
– Which lesson elements best support struggling readers?
– Which lesson elements help students to access
vocabulary?
– Which lesson elements help students to access the most
complex pieces of text?
• Which elements can be eliminated, condensed, or
extended?
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Considerations for Adaptation:
Unit- and Lesson-Level Tool
• Individually identify significant constraints and
needs of your students and work through
considerations for prioritizing and adapting.
• Discuss responses in critical pairs/triads to
refine your recommendations for adaptations.
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Consider: With each adaptation, what do you
gain? What do you lose?
• Debrief at your tables.
• Share out with the larger group.
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Whole Group Discussion,
Reflection, & Closing
• Identify key considerations for prioritizing
curriculum at the module level
• Synthesize recommendations for adaptations
at the lesson level
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Q&A
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Online Parking Lot
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and select “Online Parking Lot” for any
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Plus/Deltas
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