NC School CounselorsGuidance Essential Standards

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NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards

Mission

Our Goal:NC public schools will produce globally competitive students.

The Purpose of Standards:To define and communicate the knowledge and skills a student must master to be globally competitive.

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Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and NC Essential Standards(ES) are for all subject areas – including Guidance Curriculum

Based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Aligned with ASCA National Standards for Students (National Model)

New Common Core State Standards &Essential Standards

NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards: What are they?

• “Must Have" goals of the guidance curriculum

• Skills, understandings and learning experiences students master at each developmental level progressing to the next level

• Focused on higher-order knowledge and skills all students should master - Assurance that every student learns essential content and skills for the 21st Century

• Assessed in the classroom via formative, benchmark/interim, and summative assessments to inform of student learning and teaching practices.

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Crosswalk of StandardsASCA National Standards for

Students• Personal-Social

• Academic

• Career

NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards for Students

• Socio-Emotional

• Cognitive

• Career

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Proficiency Levels• Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery (RED)• Early Emergent/Emergent (EEE)• Progressing (P)• Early Independent (EI)• Independent (I)

Standards are not…• Intended to be the comprehensive school

counseling program

• The same as the School Counselor evaluation or appraisal instrument

************************************** School counselors are leaders in their school and advocates for creating positive systemic change

Our Guiding Question?What do students need to know, understand

and be able to do, to ensure their success in the future, whether it be to continue progressing through current study, post-secondary college

or a career?

4 Questions of a PLC (DuFour)• What do we want students to learn?

(NC Guidance Essential Standards)

• How will we know if they have learned it? (Data Literacy)

• How will we respond when they don’t learn it? (Connecting to Serve All Students)

• How will we respond when they already know it? (Connecting to Serve All Students)

Standard

How I teach this

standard

How this standard is reflected in

student behavior/work

How this standard is assessed:

formativebenchmarksummative

Differentiation

Connections

The Big Picture

Connections

Understanding the Standards• Preamble – Overview and purpose

• Preamble Scavenger Hunt Activity– Table Teams: Answer and Discuss the questions

of the Scavenger Hunt

Understanding the Standards• Standards are for Students

– Proficiency Levels – based on student readiness, NOT a grade level placement

– Clarifying Objectives indicate what students are to know, understand, and be able to do

Proficiency Levels, Strands, Standards and Clarifying

Objectives….No Grade Levels, Oh My!

• Strand 1(S1): Socio-Emotional (SE)

• Strand 2 (S2): Cognitive (C)

• Strand 3 (S3): Career (CR)

• 2-4 Essential Standards per strand with clarifying objectives for students to master within the proficiency levels for each standard

Dr. Lorin W. Anderson

RBT Module at NC Education

BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMYCreating

Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

 Evaluating

Justifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging

  Analyzing

Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding 

ApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executing

 Understanding

Explaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

 Remembering

Recalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

Remembering

Teacher DirectsTellsShowsExaminesQuestionsEvaluates

Student

RespondsAbsorbsRemembersRecognizesMemorizesDefinesDescribesRetellsPassive recipient

EvaluatingTeacherClarifiesAcceptsGuides

StudentJudgesDisputesComparesCritiquesQuestionsArguesAssessesDecidesSelects JustifiesActive participant

Evaluating

Activities and Products Write a letter to the editor Prepare and conduct a debate Evaluate the character’s actions in the story Write a persuasive speech arguing for/against…

RBT and Guidance Essential Standards

Life As a School Counselor

Example: Essential Standard Readiness: RED.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of

personal responsibility.Clarifying Objective: RED.SE.1.1Understand the importance of self-control and responsibility.

Activity: RED.SE.1: Your best friend tells a lie about you to several of your friends.

• Describe how this makes you feel.

• Draw a picture showing how this made you feel.

• List three (3) things you can do in this situation to help you control your emotions.

Example: Essential Standard Early Independent: EI.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of

personal responsibility.

Clarifying Objective: EI.SE.1.1 Explain the impact of personal responsibility on others.

Activity: EI.SE.1: You are with two friends when a third friend asks you to steal an item off the lunch line.

• How would you categorize this behavior (stealing)?

• What function will your personal values play in your decision making about this request?

• Analyze how your decision in how this matter could affect your future.

Understanding the StandardsTeam Activities:

Alignment Activity - Look at the Standards Sheet on your table. List guidance curriculum activities you or teachers in your school are currently doing that align with the clarifying objectives/standards/strands

Where do I find the Guidance Essential Standards & Unpacking

Documents• NCDPI School Counseling (LiveBinders)

• NCDPI School Counseling Wikispace