Vocabulary in Tiers
Professional Development Proposal for CHHS
Nov 28, 2016
From Diane Albanese, Cape’s Literacy Specialist
PD Goals, Work with Teams of Teachers in PLC’s
- Promoting learning around the standards by defining and addressing the use of vocabulary tiers across the content within a grade level
- Determine teachers’ needs to develop better vocabulary strategies
- Develop a mechanism for delivery for instruction/practice involving electronic devices
Explanation/Rationale: Learing vocabulary is basic and critical to learning. Text understanding, reading comprehension, writing abitlity and even higher level thinking is linked to the vocabulary acquistion and use. It is a relevant, significant and imperative part of the Delaware Literacy Standards and a CHAT goal for this school year.
At this time vocabulary is being taught across subject areas and students are responsible for learning within a core but there is no across the board plan or crossover skills. There is also confusion around the Tiers of Vocabulary: Tier 1, 2 and 3. What does this mean and how can it be utilized in classrooms? How can we improve the practice, improve learning and ultimately boost test scores?
Possible Timeframe: late 2016-toward mid spring 2017
Examples of possible outcomes:
- Core sets of vocabulary words
- Best strategies for teaching and testing vocabulary
- Consistency
- Moving toward common goals
- Use of Ipads across core subjects
- Many more created from PLC groups
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