Standards and Instruction

Putting it All Together

Linda DresselNovember 29, 2014St. Leo University

Putting It All Together

Common Core Standards

Instructional Practices

Student Performance

Common Core StandardsWhat are they?

- Clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know from Kindergarten through 12th grade.

- Drafted by experts and teachers from across the country

- Designed to ensure students are prepared for freshman-level college courses, entry-level careers, and workforce training programs

- Focus on critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills (Development Process, 2010)

Effective Instructional PracticesWhat do they look like?

Effective Instructional Practices

Establish and communicate learning goals

◦ Goals vs. activities

◦ Rubric or scale for each goal

◦ Students identify own goals

◦ Celebrate success and/or growth

Help students interact with new knowledge

◦ Identify most important ideas

◦ Present in small chunks

◦ Ask questions that require elaboration

◦ Students reflect on learning

Effective Instructional Practices

Help Students Practice and Deepen Understanding

◦ Structured practice can provide rigor

◦ Help students find errors in thinking

◦ Assign purposeful homework

Help Students Generate and Test Hypotheses

◦ Have students design their own tasks

◦ Teach students about effective support

◦ Engage students in tasks that require them to generate and support hypotheses

Effective Instructional Practices

Engage Students

◦ Games focused on content

◦ Physical movement

◦ Inconsequential competition

◦ Demonstrate enthusiasm

◦ Provide unusual information

Establish and Maintain Rules and Procedures

◦ Organize classroom for effective learning

◦ Small set of rules and procedures

◦ Periodically review rules and procedures and adjust as necessary

◦ Use classroom meetings

Effective Instructional Practices

Recognize and Acknowledge Adherence to Rules and Procedures

◦ Simple verbal and nonverbal acknowledgement

◦ Be “with it”

◦ Use direct cost consequences

Establish and Maintain Relationships with Students

◦ Know about each student

◦ Bring student interests into content

◦ Use humor where appropriate

◦ Project a degree of emotional objectivity

Effective Instructional Practices

Communicate High Expectations for All Students

◦ Identify expectation level for students

◦ Ensure students receive verbal and nonverbal indications that they are valued and respected

◦ Ask questions to all students

Develop effective lessons

◦ Identify focus of instruction

◦ Plan for content-specific lesson segments

◦ Develop flexible draft of daily activities for a unit

◦ Review important ideas and effective teaching daily(Marzano & Brown, 2009)

Your group will be assigned one of the Effective Instructional Practices.

• On the chart paper at your table, explain how this practice would look in the classroom.

• Hang your chart paper on the bookshelves in the front of the Media Center when you have finished.

• You will have approximately ten minutes to complete. • We will share our ideas when we have finished.

Measures of Student Performance

- Formative assessment- Summative assessment- Performance-based tasks- Teacher observations- Informal assessments- Student reflections

How do we assess?

Share with your tablemates specific ways you utilize assessment in your classroom.

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References

Development Process. (2010, January 1). Retrieved November 24,

2014, from http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-

standards/development-process/

Marzano, R., & Brown, J. (2009). A handbook for the art and science

of teaching. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision

and Curriculum Development