Student Learning Objectives The SLO Process

1. Student Learning ObjectivesThe SLO Process Student Learning Objectives Training Series Module 3 of 3

2. Agenda • Review and Preview • The SLO Process • A Note on Baseline Data • Selecting Assessments • Determining Performance Targets

3. Session Objectives • By the end of this session, participants will be able to: • Identify the three steps of the SLO process, along with their more nuanced sub-steps. • Define possible sources for baseline data that describes both student performance and behavior. • Identify the critical steps in selecting high quality assessments.

4. Review and Preview • We have covered: • An introduction to Student Learning Objectives. • The components of a Student Learning Objective. • The template for communicating Student Learning Objectives and supporting implementation tools. • Next, we will cover: • The process for developing Student Learning Objectives. • The process for gathering and analyzing student performance data.

5. The SLO Process

6. The process for setting Student Learning Objectives emphasizes the importance of collaboration to establish long-term, measurable, academic goals for their students.

7. The SLO Process:An Overview

8. Key Questions for Teachers Through the SLO Process, teachers become fluent in the answers to the following questions: • What do I expect my students to learn during their time in this course? 2. How will I know if they’ve learned it?

9. Teachers’ SLO Development Process Teachers with teams: • Review the standards with grade-level or content team. • Analyze baseline data and student performance trends. • Select common measure(s) for student learning. Teachers without teams: • Review the standards with teachers across LEA network or • Collaborate with teachers from other grades/subjects within the LEA. • Analyze baseline data and student performance trends. • Select measure(s) for student learning.

10. Step 1: Setting SLOs Step 1 Outcome: Approved SLOs

11. Step 2: Monitoring SLOs Step 2 Outcomes: Mid-Year Check In, Revised Professional Support Plans and SLOs

12. Step 3: Evaluating SLOs Step 3 Outcome: Final SLO Rating, Revised Professional Growth Plan

13. Baseline Data Selecting Assessments & Setting Targets

14. Selecting high quality assessments (or other measures of student performance) is an integral component of the Student Learning Objective process.

15. A Note on Understanding Baseline Data Baseline data that is useful for understanding students’ prerequisite skills and content includes, but is not limited to: • beginning of course diagnostics and / or performance tasks, • prior year tests, • tests in other subjects, • teacher-, school- or state generated tests, • student grades in previous courses, • student mobility rates, • student behavior data, • Individualized Education Plans.

16. Framework forSelecting Assessments

17. Determining Performance Targets

18. Learn More About SLOs Please visitOSSE’s SLO technical assistance pagefor more information about Student Learning Objectives, to see SLO samples and find tools to aid in implementation.