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Science Break Out Session. February 2009 New Teacher Support PIMSER Lexington, KY. Characteristics of High Quality Teaching and Learning. Knowledge of Content Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement Instructional Relevance Learning Climate Informative Assessment and Reflection. Rigor - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Science Break Out Session
February 2009New Teacher Support
PIMSERLexington, KY
Characteristics of High Quality Teaching and Learning
• Knowledge of Content
• Instructional Rigor and Student Engagement
• Instructional Relevance
• Learning Climate
• Informative Assessment and Reflection
Criteria
• Rigor– Standards Based– Higher Level Thinking– Real World
Connection– Challenging, yet
obtainable– Inquiry based tasks
• Student Engagement– Meaningful and relevant
to the student– Authentic (has value
outside of school)– Designed to maximize
enjoyment while mastering content (variety to choice)
Examples of Rigor
• Open Ended Questions
• Student Friendly Learning Targets
• Plan With The End In Mind—Backward Design Model
• Learning Experiences Are Designed And Sequenced To Learning Targets
• Real World Application
• Challenging, Yet Obtainable
Higher Order Questioning
• Indicator of rigor—both on formal assessment and normal classroom discourse.
• Promote deeper thinking about concepts that extends beyond the level of recall.– This means that the learning expectation for every
CCA standard is that students have knowledge of that content to (at least) the level of application or basic reasoning.
How often do you ask students to think at those levels?
Let’s Examine
Your Assessments!
“When choosing instructional approaches, think about what is
needed for learning, not just what is comfortable for
teaching.”-Wiggins and McTighe,
Understanding by Design, pg. 242
How do I help students organize their learning?
Regular Notes
Combination Notes
Symbols, Pictures,Or
graphic
Summary
Deconstructing Standards
Learning Targets
• I can describe and identify the 4 types of learning targets
• I can compare and contrast strong and weak models of deconstructed standards
• I can practice deconstructing state standards
What’s the Target?
Learning/Achievement Targets
Statements of what we want students to learn and be able to do.
“Teachers who truly understand what they want their students to accomplish will almost surely be more instructionally successful than teachers whose understanding of hoped-for student accomplishments are murky.”
-W. James Popham
CLEAR TARGETSAssess what?
What are the learning targets?Are they clear?Are they good?
Are the student learning targets stated and easy to find?
Are the student learning targets focused—are there too many?
Are they clear?
Are they appropriate?
Do the stated learning targets reflect a bigger plan to cover all important learning targets over time?
Educators & Students must be able to answer……
• Where am I going?• Where am I now?• How can I close the gap?• How will I know I’m getting
there?• How can I keep it going?
Is this a Target?
What do you think?
• Complete a senior project
• Build a bird Feeder
• Use a band saw safely
• Analyze a lab report
• Construct a diorama
An Example
• Science
• Chemistry• Page 152 in the book• Mystery Powders Lab• Observe chemical interactions in
order to identify materials
Subject
Topic
Assignment
Activity
Learning Target
The single most common barrier to sound classroom
assessment is the teachers’ lack of vision of appropriate
achievement targets within the subjects they are supposed to
teach.
Rick Stiggins
Learning Targets
• Knowledge
• Reasoning
• Performance/ skills
• Products
Knowledge Targets
Mastery of substantive subject content where mastery includes both
knowing and understanding it.
Knowledge Examples
• Identify metaphors and similes
• Read and write quadratic equations
• Describe the function of a cell membrane
• Know the multiplication tables
• Explain the effects of an acid on a base
Reasoning Targets
The ability to use knowledge and understanding to figure things out and to solve problems.
Reasoning Examples
• Use statistical methods to describe, analyze, evaluate, and make decisions.
• Make a prediction based on evidence.
• Examine data/results and propose a meaningful interpretation.
• Distinguish between historical fact and opinion.
Performance/Skill Targets
The development of proficiency in doing something where the process is most important.
Performance/Skill Examples
• Measure mass in metric and SI units
• Use simple equipment and tools to gather data
• Read aloud with fluency and expression
• Participates in civic discussions with the aim of solving current problems
• Dribbles to keep the ball away from an opponent
Product Targets
The ability to create tangible products that meet certain standards of quality and present concrete evidence of academic proficiency.
Product Examples
• Construct a bar graph
• Develop a personal health-related fitness plan
• Construct a physical model of an object
• Write a term paper to support a thesis
Clear Targets
Clear targets help us:• Recognize if the formative assessment
adequately covers and samples what we taught.
• Correctly identify what students know/don’t know, and their level of achievement.
• Plan the next steps in instruction.• Give meaningful descriptive feedback to
students.
Clear Targets (continued)
• Have students self-assess or set goals likely to help them learn more.
• Keep track of student learning target by target or standard by standard.
• Complete a standards-based report card.
Classifying Learning Targets
• Lay out the four learning target category cards—Knowledge, Reasoning, Performance/Skill, and Product—in a row in that order.
• Sort the learning target example cards according to which kind of learning target it is. Lay these cards in columns under the appropriate category.
• When you have finished, walk around and look at what other groups have done.
Classifying Learning Targets
• What were some considerations for how you classified the samples you had?
• Is it always clear how to classify a statement from the standards? Why or why not?
QUESTION
What is the difference between a
STANDARD
and a
TARGET?
An Example
• STANDARD: An excellent golf swing
• TARGETS:– Proper placement for feet (stance)– Proper grip while maintaining stance– Swing A, B, C (3-parts to swing)
• ACTIVITIES:– Watch videos of great golfers and imitate their
stance
When should these be added and/or developed?
“By setting out clearly in their own minds what they wanted the students to learn, the teachers would be in a position to find out what the ‘gap’ was between the state of students’ current learning and the learning goal and to be able to monitor that ‘gap’ as it closed.”
--Assessment for Learning: Putting it into Practice
Deconstructing StandardsInto Learning Targets
Students who can identify what they are learning
significantly outscore those who cannot.
Robert J. Marzano
Are the Standards Clear?
• Can your content standards stand alone and be used as learning targets or do they need to be deconstructed or ‘unpacked’?
• Deconstruction involves taking a standard and breaking it down into manageable learning targets—Knowledge, Reasoning, Performance/skills, and/or Products—so that students and teachers can accurately identify what students should know and be able to do.
Standard/Benchmark:
Produce writing to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Type: Knowledge Reasoning Skill Product
Learning Targets:What are the knowledge, reasoning, skill, or product targets underpinning the standard?
Knowledge Targets
Skill Targets
Reasoning Targets
Product Targets
Know what a sentence is
Understand concept of word choice
Distinguish the uses ormeanings of a
variety of words (word choice)
Hold a pencil correctly
Print letters correctly according to DN methods
Space words
Use lines and margins correctly
Stretch out sounds in words to create a temporary spelling of the word
Write sentences with varied
beginnings.
FIRST GRADE
Creating Targets for “Driving a Car with Skill”
What knowledge will students need to demonstrate the intended learning?
What patterns of reasoning will they need to master?
What skills are required, if any?
What product development capabilities must they acquire, if any?
Driving a Car with Skill
KnowledgeKnow the lawRead signs and understand what they mean
ReasoningEvaluate ‘am I safe’ and synthesize information to take action if needed
SkillsSteering, shifting, parallel parking, …
Products(not appropriate target for standard)
Deconstruction Models
• Find a partner
• Look at the STRONG example– How would this help teachers?– How would this impact student learning?
• Look at the WEAK example– Would this be beneficial to teachers?
• In order to deconstruct effectively what skills/knowledge are needed?
Practicing Deconstructing Standards
• Working with a partner, use the standards provided to deconstruct.
• Think about what knowledge, skills, reasoning or products students will need in order to meet that standard.
• Start with the skills column, then move to understanding and last to core content.
• Do NOT think of how you will teach the standard or how you will assess it, ONLY about what students will need to know and be able to do.
Group Debrief
DHow did the process feel?
What is the value of going through this process?
What support materials are needed to facilitate the process?
Without Clear Targets We Can’t Do Any of the Following…
• Know if the assessment adequately covers and samples what we taught.
• Correctly identify what students know and don’t know and their level of achievement.
• Plan next steps in instruction.• Give detailed, descriptive feedback to students.• Have students self-assess or set goals likely to help them
learn more.• Keep track of student learning target by target or
standard by standard.• Complete a standards-based report card.
For Next Month
• Bring a selection of standards that you will be teaching next.– Not just core content,
but skills and understandings as well
• We will begin to deconstruct those standards.