Linking Standards

1. Linking Standards EDT 3470 – Final Team Projects

2. Presentation Outline • Standards Basics Review • What are standards? • Why are standards important? • Pre-Service Teacher ~ EDT 3470 • Course goal • Your charge and duty • Final Team Website • Linking Standards

3. Standards Basic Review • What are standards? • Standards spell out what students are expected to learn in each grade and each subject. • Why are standards important? • When teachers and principals know what students are expected to know, they unleash the power of their own creativity and have the freedom to innovate. (ed.gov – Sect. Anne Duncan, 2010)

4. Standards and You • Each state Department of Education creates standards for schools within the state. • These standards become the basis for the way teachers are trained, what they teach and what is on state standardized tests that students take. • How you are trained (Pre-Service and PD) • What you teach…even how you teach • Basis of your instruction • Student Assessment • Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) • Content Area - MGLECs

5. Pre-Service Teacher • In relation to EDT 3470, everything you have covered this semester was based around “meeting or exceeding the 2008 ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.” • Your Charge – Team Web Site

6. Team Web Site • The end of the semester Team Web Site is an accumulation of items for your Project-Based Learning topic and requires team members to work together during the last weeks of the semester. • All projects created in this semester will be attached to your team web site. • Exception: Web evaluations – only web site used for those

7. Team Web Site • Goal: target for this web site is for teachers. • Will contain information and resources on how to implement project-based learning, walking students through the process of a a specific project, your PBL. The web site should be developed in a clear, logical way with activities, examples, etc. (Week 11 – EDT3470 Web Site)

8. Example Web Sites • Welcome to the Fascinating World of Weather Website • Classroom Dinner • Exploring Weather

9. Team Web Site • What you will NOT do… • Link only your lesson plan standards • What you will DO… • Link all standards from MGLCE: Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations, and ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation that your web site meets

10. Linking Standards Why is this important? • Again, everything has a base, even your book … • Teachers using your web site need to know what standards you based all of your projects and lessons from. • Assures that your instruction is based off of clear-cut goals and objectives that will aid in insuring your students learning process and success; and will provide the same for other teachers

11. How will I do this? • You will need to go back with each one of your assignments and new ideas (which was introduced in lab). You need to find the standards that align with assignments and are the foundation of the new ideas to be implemented. • Taskstream! Taskstream! Taskstream! • Ex. MGLECs are categorized by Grade Level -> Subject Area -> Core Subject Areas -> Disciplines and Expectations

12. How will I do this? • PBL – Butterfly Garden • Virtual Penpals and Google Docs • Skype, email, and IM to communicate with a 3rd grade class in Mexico • Butterfly Habitat and Different types of butterflies • Compare and Contrast • Life Cycle of a Butterfly Presentations • Exchanging Student-Replicas of Butterflies (adapted from Week 3 – PBL Examples ) • Taskstream

13. Creating Original Resources • Numbers and Operations • Explore number patterns  N.MR.00.10 Create, describe, and extend simple number patterns.  • Compose and decompose numbers  N.MR.00.08 Describe and make drawings to represent situations/stories involving putting together and taking apart for totals up to 10; use finger and object counting. 

14. Creating Original Resources • You will be required to create an original teaching resource. Create a lesson from: • MI- Michigan Grade Level Content ExpectationsSubject: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Grade: FOURTH GRADE Strand: SPEAKING Topic: Spoken Discourse Expectation: S.DS.04.01 Engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning (e.g., book clubs, literature circles, partnerships, or other conversation protocols). • Expectation: S.DS.04.03 Respond to multiple text types by reflecting, making connections, taking a position and sharing understandings. • Expectation: S.DS.04.04 Plan and deliver presentations or reports focusing on a key question using an informational organizational pattern (e.g., descriptive, problem/solution, cause and effect), supportive facts, and details reflecting and emphasizing facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language. • Subject: Social Studies Grade: Grade Four: United States Studies Strand: Economics Topic: E1 Market Economy • Expectation: 4.E1.0.1 Identify questions economists ask in examining the United States (e.g., What is produced? How is it produced? How much is produced? Who gets what is produced? What role does the government play in the economy?). • Expectation: 4.E1.0.3 Describe how positive and negative incentives influence behavior in a market economy. • Expectation: 4. E1.0.4 Explain how price affects decisions about purchasing goods and services (substitute goods). • Expectation: 4.E1.0.6 Explain how competition among buyers results in higher prices and competition among sellers results in lower prices (e.g., supply, demand).

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16. Conclusion • Don’t take anything you learned this year for granted • Critics argue that having rigid standards and tests discourages schools from being innovative and inspiring creativity in their students. Because the emphasis is on basic skills such as reading and math, subjects that are not tested, such as art and history, get less emphasis in the classroom. • But through PBL, you are able to be innovative and inspire creativity in your students in every area