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Curriculum Council

Curriculum Council. August 2011. Agenda. Review the work accomplished Communicate the role of CC for this school year Introduce “Power Standards” Establish Criteria Practice. Summer Work. Collaborative Maps Created for: Math Language Arts Social Studies

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Curriculum Council

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  1. Curriculum Council August 2011

  2. Agenda • Review the work accomplished • Communicate the role of CC for this school year • Introduce “Power Standards” • Establish Criteria • Practice

  3. Summer Work Collaborative Maps Created for: • Math • Language Arts • Social Studies • Science (updates to previous work) http://dunlapcusd.rubiconatlas.org

  4. Beginning with the End in Mind Identified Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum • PLC #1: What is it that we want all students to know & be able to do? Common Formative Assessments • PLC #2: How will we know that are students are learning?

  5. Building the District Curriculum Guaranteed Viable Guaranteed Viable All students are taught the same content and skills At similar times With similar emphasis • Enduring • Retain over time • Leverage • Help in other curricular areas • Readiness for the next level (Learning by Doing, p. 65)

  6. Common Assessment An assessment created collaboratively by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level or course and administered to all students in that grade level or course.

  7. Why Common Assessments? • “One of the most powerful, high-leverage strategies for improving student learning available to schools is the creation of frequent, high quality, common assessments by teachers who are working collaboratively to help a group of students acquire agreed upon knowledge and skills.” • (Learning by Doing, DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, & Many, 2006, p.76)

  8. The Process: A Standards-based comprehensive instruction & assessment system • Identify Power standards • Unwrapping standards Essential Questions/Content/Skills • Developing Formative & Summative Assessments • Instructional unit design, including classroom performance assessments • Collaborative scoring of student work • Data-driven instructional decision making, implications for intervention and acceleration

  9. STEP 1: What are Power Standards? Why should we identify Power Standards?

  10. Definitions • Standard: statement of what students need to know and be able to do • Indicator: the grade-specific learning expectations for students

  11. Power Standard • Term coined by Dr. Douglas Reeves • Refers to standards & indicators that are critical for student success • “A very limited set of learning objectives organized for each grade level & each subject” • Approximately 1/3 of Standards

  12. Standards • Essential • Allows for in depth instruction • Required for the next level • Nice to Know • Covering

  13. Old Model: We have to do it All New Model: From Coverage to Focus State Standards Potential Curriculum & Test Objectives Focused Curriculum & Assessments Power Standards District Curriculum Frantic Coverage of Every Test Object State Standards

  14. Criteria for identifying Power Standards • What should be our criteria when choosing Power Standards? • 3 to 4 screeners

  15. Elementary Dunlap Criteria • Work our way up with the Power Standards • Entrance and Exit Skills • Need for Life (21st Century ) • Foundational Skills (needed for next level) • Life Skills • 21st Century Skills (vision criteria) • Foundational skills/ Building Blocks Cluster standards Teacher/student friendly Need to define criteria and how many make a power standard, for example all (3) criteria???

  16. Criteria for identifying Power Standards • Dr Doug Reeves suggests: • Endurance: knowledge beyond a single test • Leverage: valuable across disciplines • Example: Creating & interpreting graphs • Readiness for the next level/grade: entrance skills for the next course/grade level

  17. Simplified Criteria • Larry Ainsworth suggests: • School • Life • State Test

  18. Practice Using our Criteria identify which standards you would select as Power Standards

  19. Social Studies: Political Systems

  20. Next Meeting • Finalize Criteria • Practice ID power standards as curriculum groups • Need copies of standards • Sit by K-5 Curriculum Group • Prepare protocol for Sept 28thInservice • Need to ID Curriculum Teams for all teachers

  21. September 28 SI Afternoon • Meet at Departments • Explain Power Standards • What are the they? • Why identify these? • How does this fit with the work we have done? • Identification Process • Individual • Grade Level/Course Level • Department as a whole

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