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1. Welcome! . Please complete the first two columns in your KWL. Topic: Writing Scales

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3. Are Respectful of Other’s Opinions and Listen with an Open Mind; Limit the Use of Electronics for Breaks • Collaborate in Group Work • Take Responsibility for Engaging in Learning and Continuous Growth It’s Okay to have Fun! Suffering is Optional. Group Norms

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8. Participants will be able to develop a scale for tracking student progress toward achieving a learning goal. Today’s Learning Goal

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10. What Marzano’s research says - High Probability Strategies - Marzano Research Laboratory

11. A Scale is an attempt to create a continuum that articulates distinct levels of knowledge and skill relative to a specific topic. • It can be thought of as an applied version of a learning progression. • A well written scale should make it easy for teachers to design and score assessment tasks that can be used to generate both formative and summative scores. Learning Continuum Scale - Dr. Robert Marzano

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15. Learning Goals Chart

16. Make a Distinction Between Learning Goals and Learning Activities or Assignments A learning goal identifies what students will learn or be able to do as a result of instruction, separate from what they do to demonstrate the learning. Learning activities and assignments help students reach learning goals.

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19. Marzano’s Generic Scale • Organize Learning Goals into a Scale • Advanced = 4.0 More Complex Content • Proficient = 3.0 Target Learning Goal (Complex Content) • Progressing = 2.0 Simpler Content

20. Scale Non-Example Why is this not an example of a scale or rubric? Learning Goal: The student will describe changes in the atomic model over time and why those changes were necessitated by experimental evidence Instructional Excellence & Equity

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23. Development of a Scale for Student Learning: Example Students will be able to describe changes in the atomic model over time and why those changes were necessitated by experimental evidence. Student Learning Goal: Predict how atomic models might have evolved if different experimental results had been obtained. • The student will: • definemodel, subatomic particle, proton, electron, nucleus • understand results of historicalexperiments and previous • atomic model representations Instructional Excellence & Equity

24. Simpler and More Complex Content for Learning Goals Exercise 3.1 http://www.marzanoresearch.com/reproducibles/designing_teaching.aspx#reproducibles DANCE PARTNERS

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26. Scale Development for Student Learning

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32. Develop a Scale for your Learning Goal • Start with Score 3.0 and write your Target Learning Goal • Continue to develop Score 2.0 and Score 4.0 • Include specific indicators that would demonstrate acceptable performance for that score.

33. Share your scale Share your results

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35. Parking Lot Questions? Last Questions We accept learning as the fundamental purpose of our school and therefore are willing to examine all practices in light of the impact on learning. - DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many