Overview
The Camsp grant requires all teachers to
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attend 60 intensive hours of professional development each school year.
Click here for a breakdown of those hours.
- If you presently have 46 hours or above and you attend the rest of the two follow-ups you do not need any make-up.
- Your total hours now PLUS the two follow-ups left ( march and may) should add up to at least 60. The March and the May follow-ups will give you 14 hours in all.
- If you have attended all the sessions so far you will have a total of 54 hours. You will only need 6 more hours to reach your total of 60.
- There are only 9 participants according to the hours logged by me that need make-up. If you have below 46 hours, your hours are highlighted.
- The makeup sessions will be done on line. There will be total of 12 hours of make-up available under three modules.
- Each teacher needs to make up only the hours needed to reach 60.
- According to CDE since all teachers did not get trained in SB 472, you cannot use those hours towards the intensive. So if you have not done SB 472 till now, you do not have to worry about completing the training.
If you are short of the total number of intensive hours required, please see makeup opportunities below.
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In addition, teachers must complete at least 24 hours of application of Camsp concepts. Application hours can be completed in a variety of ways, including connecting camsp knowledge to newly adopted textbook materials (attending SB 472), action research, lesson planning, PLC meetings, applying institute strategies, peer observation and classroom videotaping.
Please fill out the template below as you complete your application hours. After you have completed the required hours. Turn in the completed form into Sudha Venkatesan. It must be received by May 1, 2010. All hours from August 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010 can be counted.
Download the template
When you have completed the makeup work, please email it to Sudha - sudha.venkatesan@lausd.net
Make Up Opportunities
The make up activities are a combination of online modules and face to face. The following online modules are available:
- 3 hours - Pedagogy Online Module
- 3 hours - Language Online Module
- 3 hours - Math Content Online Module
In order to receive credit for each module, it is neccesary to have a one hour face to face meeting with the District Coordinator, Sudha.
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| Math Content |
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Review the "Distance = Rate * Time" Module presented by Dr. John Elwin.
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Reading and Reflection
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Reread Chapters 4 and 5 of NMP document
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Writing Assignment #1
Explain: how you would use the math content, from the online module, and the Benchmarks for the Critical Foundations Table (located on page 20) to guide your math instruction.
Length: one to two pages, typed
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Table 2: Benchmarks for the Critical Foundations
Fluency With Whole Numbers
- By the end of Grade 3, students should be proficient with the addition and subtraction of whole numbers.
- By the end of Grade 5, students should be proficient with multiplication and division of whole numbers.
Fluency With Fractions
- By the end of Grade 4, students should be able to identify and represent fractions and decimals, and compare them on a number line or with other common representations of fractions and decimals.
- By the end of Grade 5, students should be proficient with comparing fractions and decimals and common percent, and with the addition and subtraction of fractions and decimals.
- By the end of Grade 6, students should be proficient with multiplication and division of fractions and decimals.
- By the end of Grade 6, students should be proficient with all operations involving positive and negative integers.
- By the end of Grade 7, students should be proficient with all operations involving positive and negative fractions.
- By the end of Grade 7, students should be able to solve problems involving percent, ratio, and rate and extend this work to proportionality.
Geometry and Measurement
- By the end of Grade 5, students should be able to solve problems involving perimeter and area of triangles and all quadrilaterals having at least one pair of parallel sides (i.e., trapezoids).
- By the end of Grade 6, students should be able to analyze the properties of two-dimensional shapes and solve problems involving perimeter and area, and analyze the properties of three- dimensional shapes and solve problems involving surface area and volume.
- By the end of Grade 7, students should be familiar with the relationship between similar triangles and the concept of the slope of a line.
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National Mathematics Advisory Panel Recommendation:
The Benchmarks for the Critical Foundations in Table 2 should be used to guide classroom curricula, mathematics instruction, and state assessments. They should be interpreted flexibly, to allow for the needs of students and teachers.
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Writing Assignment #2
Using the recommendation (found on page 29) as your guide, assess your current instructional materials in their presentation of the content presented in the mathematics power point or the prerequisite skills needed to access the mathematics content.
Length: one to two pages, typed
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National Mathematics Advisory Panel Recommendation:
The curriculum should allow for sufficient time to ensure acquisition of conceptual and procedural knowledge of fractions (including decimals and percent) and of proportional reasoning. The curriculum should include representational supports that have been shown to be effective, such as number line representations, and should encompass instruction in tasks that tap the full gamut of conceptual and procedural knowledge, including ordering fractions on a number line, judging equivalence and relative magnitudes of fractions with unlike numerators and denominators, and solving problems involving ratios and proportion. The curriculum also should make explicit connections between intuitive understanding and formal problem solving involving fractions.
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| Pedagogy |
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| Language |
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Review the "Language Assessment" Module presented by Dr. Robin Scarcella.
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Reading and Application
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Assess 3 of your students using the Language Assessment. Score the results with the scoring sheet.
- Write a reflection about the experience. What did you learn? Did the results surprise you or confirm your expectations? How will the assessment inform your instruction?
Length: Two, typed pages
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| Math Content |
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| Face to Face Meeting |
After you have completed you needed hours, arrange a meeting with Sudha. Bring your work from the online application as well as your reflections or other required written work depending on the module.
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