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Professional Development Group
Aligning Curriculum Standards, Instructional Practices and
Assessment.
Alaska School Leadership Institute
May 2009
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A Model of Alignment
DATA
DATADATA
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How is performance towards standards demonstrated at the classroom level?
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Curriculum Alignment Check
• Do we understand how our curriculum is aligned to the Alaska Standards and GLE’s?
• Do we have a good understanding of what our students are expected to know and be able to do within the content standards and GLE’s?
• Do we use unpacked standards and learning targets to plan lessons and assessments?
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If Curriculum is defined as…
…desired “performances of understanding.”Then the next step is to…
Unpack the Standards
Identify the underlying concepts and skillsneeded for students to demonstrate proficiency
at each grade level.
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Why Unpack the Standards?
Fosters a process for collegial dialogueEliminates redundancy and focuses instructionPromotes consistency Provides equityPromotes continuity between grade levels and
between schoolsIncreases student learning for ALL
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The Dichotomy of an Unpacked Standard
GLE
Standard
Skill Concept SkillConcept
Learning TargetsI Can… Statements
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What are Learning Targets?
A Learning Target is any achievement expectation we have for students on the path toward meeting a standard.
It specifically states what we want the students to learn and be able to do.
Learning Targets should be formatively assessed to monitor progress toward meeting a standard.
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Standards and Targets
To fully utilize the Standards and Grade Level Expectations, educators must be able to answer the following questions:
What specific content and skills are embedded within the standards and GLE’s?
How are learning targets used by teachers and shared students?
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Instruction
How do we make sure that our instructional strategies are meeting the varied needs of all our students?
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Assessment as Instructional Feedback
From…
Teach Test Grade & Move On
To…
Assess Teach Assess Adjust Instruction Assess
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Assessment in Support of Learning
• go beyond merely providing judgments about student performance to providing rich descriptions of student performance,
• evolve from being isolated events to becoming events that happen in ongoing series to reveal patterns,
• go beyond merely informing instructional decisions of teachers to informing decisions also made by students.
Rick Stiggins, 2006
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Assessment
In what ways do the assessments we use inform our instructional practices and monitor student progress at the building, classroom and individual student levels?
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How do you know what they know?
What data do you collect to:
verify student understanding?monitor progress? inform instruction, curriculum or program needs?
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Using Data to Identify Learning Gaps
Formative assessment can identify specific students’ learning gaps at a time when the learning is still taking place and timely interventions can be made.
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Analyzing your Classroom AssessmentsFundamental Questions
What standard(s) are you assessing?
What kind of evidence are you gathering?
What levels of performance do you expect?
How will the assessment be used?
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Assessment and evaluation are no longer the product of teaching, they are the tools that learners and teachers use to support learning.
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Assessment can help us move towards…
Learning …instead of just teaching
Quality …instead of quantity
Improvement …instead of one-shot deals
Depth …instead of coverage
Confidence …instead of anxiety