dressel module 6a

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