Implementation Training 101 & 102

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101 Training

Overview

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Homepage

Core ELA Unit

Library

Deep Dive

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Create an Assignment

Customizing Assignments

Users

Gradebook/Feedback

Assessment

102 Training

Note-Taking Guide

Note-Taking Guide

Your DEMO Login

my.mheducation.com

UN: SCMSHS23Rvw

PW: Palmetto1

Task – Grade Level / Unit Overview

Focus: Navigation to Grade Level & Unit Overview

1. Select “CORE ELA” from the main menu, then select grade level
2. Notice the six units per grade level
3. Locate downloadable resources at top and bottom of the page.
4. Select Unit 1 in any grade
5. Locate the “UNIT PACING GUIDE,” Essential Question, Genre Focus
6. Scroll down to see the overview blades. Click on the title to reveal content.

Respond Back:

• How will the Unit Overview support your planning?
• What reading and writing instructional support did you find?

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Task – Integrated Reading and Writing

Focus: SyncStart

Respond Back:

• What caught your attention?
• What is something new to your practice?

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1. Open “SyncStart” blade
2. Locate the Blast and Select Student Preview
3. View Background Article, Prompt, Blast Back
4. Close Blast by clicking the red “x” in the upper-right corner

1. Choose a Skill lesson that follows
2. Open Lesson Plan and review
3. Switch back to the browser tab with StudySync
4. Click on Student Preview and Select each tab

Task – Integrated Reading and Writing

Focus: Skill

Respond Back:

• What caught your attention?
• What is something new to your practice?

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1. Open the “Lesson Plan”
2. Open Student Preview
3. Open the drop-down menus at the top:
4. Choose a proficiency level of scaffolding and a summary language
5. Locate the “Actions” button to print scaffolds and text
6. Explore all instructional tabs- Intro, Read, etc.
7. Select “Read” and try the features such as “Audio” and “Annotate” and slide-in scaffold for previewing
8. Locate the teacher edition tab

Task – Integrated Reading and Writing

Focus: Close Reading Routine

Respond Back:

• What are the differences from a First Read? Make a list.
• What type of writing/writing opportunities did you discover?

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Read about it,

you write about it

Writing in response to reading sets up scaffolding of writing skills for a successful Extended Writing Project.

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Narrative

Expository

Argumentative

Literary Analysis

Research

Oral Presentation

Extended Writing Project

Extended Writing Project

Extended Writing Project

Extended Writing Project – Suggested Pacing

Plan - 1 day (16)

Model and Analyze an Exemplary Student Model

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Draft - 2 days (17-18)

Organization and Drafting Instruction

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Revise - 6 days (19-24)

Skill Lessons for the Revise and Edit Process

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Edit & Publish - 3 days (25-28)

Integrated Grammar Lessons for Focused Editing for a Published Product

Task – Extended Writing Project

Focus: Draft Process of the EWP

1. Open “Draft” blade
2. Locate a Skill and Select Student Preview
3. View the instructional Tabs: Define, Vocabulary, Model
4. View Teacher Edition side tab for instructional support in the Model tab
5. View Your Turn tab
6. Within the Your Turn tab, Open Split Screen to see Student’s checklist for the genre writing.

Respond Back:

• What tasks will improve students’ drafts?
• What steps in the process do you see are valuable?

TEXTS

Focus: Searching Resources & Noticing Tags

Navigate • Search • Explore 

SKILLS

Focus: Searching Skills & Components

STANDARDS

Focus: Searching standards

BLASTS

Focus: Searching Blasts & Components

Deep Dive

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Create an Assignment

Customizing Assignments

Users

Gradebook/Feedback

Assessment

102 Training

Note-Taking Guide

Note-Taking Guide

Task – Creating an Assignment

Focus: Setting Up & Customizing

1. Choose Unit 1 in your grade level
2. Click on “Integrated Reading and Writing” and then “SyncStart” blade
3. Locate the “Close Read” assignment
4. Click on the “Assign” button
5. Type your last name before the assignment name,
6. Click on “Target “and Select “StudySync Grades 6-12” from the drop-down menu.
7. Turn on “Customize”
8. Select toggles to customize 
9. Select “Preview” view customizations, and close and make new ones
10. Click “Create Assignment”

1. Click the Assignments Tab and Find your Assignment within the list 
2. Click on the Actions wheel on the right
3. Select “Edit Assignment” and adjust your customizations
4. Click “Save Assignment” and “Return to the Assignments List”
5. Find your Assignment within the list and Click on the Actions wheel 
6. Select “Make Assignment Inactive” 

Task – Assignments

Focus: Managing assigned activities

Task – Users

Focus: Managing a Class Roster

1. Choose “Users” and Locate “StudySync Grades 6-12” group
2. Find the “actions wheel” and select “Group Membership.” 
3. Locate “Proficiency” column 
4. Select a student and a proficiency level
5. Find “Sup Language.”
6. Select a student and a support language. 

1. Find a student in Users, and click their “actions wheel”
2. Select “Mimic Student”
3. Open an assignment and view student’s work
4. Close the assignment and select “Binder”
5. Choose an assignment to view
6. Close assignment

Task – Mimic a Student

Focus: Viewing a student account

1. Click the USERS tab
2. Click the “gradebook” icon of the group line
3. Locate Time Frame Menu - Change to “Academic Year” 
4. Click on “View” button, Select “Percentages.” “Standards”
5. Click on a specific standard to see a remediation report 

Task – Gradebook

Focus: Navigating within the gradebook

Task – Assess

Focus: Understanding the online assessments

1. Select “Assess” tab from the navigation tabs
2. Open “Filter”
3. Select “End-of-Unit” and Filter by grade level
4. Scroll down and click on an End-of-Unit assessment
5. Notice the “Question Standards” that are correlated
6. Click on the Actions button
7. Click on “Preview Assessment,” and click “Start Test”
8. Explore Annotation, Reader, several questions, and then close

Task – Create a Unit

Focus: Seeing how to assemble resources

1. Select Library from the Home Page
2. Search for a text, skill, or blast in the library
3. Select and click Actions
4. Add to and create a unit 

WritePrecise is a logic-based system.

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WritePrecise knows

• the skill lessons
• the vocabulary
• the rubric

WritePrecise provides specific, targeted feedback to both students and teachers

Student Feedback

Teacher Feedback

Implementation Training 101 & 102

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