Ensuring Curriculum Congruency with KCAS for ELA

1. Congruent vs. Correlated Curriculum How to Ensure Congruency between Standards, Targets, Assessments and Lessons with KCAS for ELA Carole Mullins, ELA Content Specialist carole.mullins@education.ky.gov

2. What Determines Congruence? • Congruent: in agreement; corresponding to or consistent with each other or with something else. • Teachers and instructional leaders sometimes struggle to define “congruence” • Congruence: Crucial match between the lesson learning target(s), the activities, and the assessment. • Match the activities with the level and type of learning stated in the learning target(s).

3. “Magic Triangle” Learning Targets Standard Standard Learning Activities Assessment This triangle represents the relationship between learning targets, assessments and learning activities. If these three components are congruent, …they achieve an exact match with the Standard, then teaching and learning is enhanced.

4. How Do We Determine Congruence? • With an elbow partner, discuss criteria for determining congruence. • What are the criteria your team should consider when analyzing artifacts for standards or target congruency?

5. Evidence for Congruence • KCAS Standards • Deconstructed Standards • Specific Targets • Assessment Examples and Exemplars

6. Student Work Artifact(s) Observation Facilitation Studentsengage in content at appropriate level Rigor DOK? Verbs/Bloom’s Artifact(s) Artifact(s): assessment, lesson plan, activity, etc. Content Standard(s)? Target(s)? Standard consistent vocabulary? Artifact(s)

7. Today we live in the 24-hour news cycle where we have practically unlimited access to celebrities. Do you believe the media helps or hurts celebrities? Give reasons to support your view. Student Assignment:

8. ELA Standards W.6.1 Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. a. Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly. b. Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text. Today we live in the 24-hour news cycle where we have practically unlimited access to celebrities. Do you believe the media helps or hurts celebrities? Give reasons to support your view.

9. Reframed Student Assignment: Does media exposure help or hurt high profile people?After reading an article from GoodTherapy.org, People Magazine, Twitter excerpts, watching Inside Edition, and episodes of Dateline, write an informational essay that addresses the question and supports your position with evidence from the text. Today we live in the 24-hour news cycle where we have practically unlimited access to celebrities. Do you believe the media helps or hurts celebrities? Give reasons to support your view.

10. Student Work Artifact(s) Observation Facilitation Studentsengage in content at appropriate level Rigor DOK? Verbs/Bloom’s Artifact(s) Artifact(s): assessment, lesson plan, activity, etc. Content Standard(s)? Target(s)? Standard consistent vocabulary? Artifact(s)

11. ELA Reading Literature Standard #2: • CCR – Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

12. Activity Instructions • Read through the assessment items associated with the closest grade level you teach that relates to this standard. • Which items are congruent? What evidence do you see that supports this? • Which items do you feel are not congruent and why not? • With an elbow partner, discuss the examples and reach a consensus on the congruence of each item.

13. Reliability of Assessments Depend on: • Is the assessment congruent with the standard? • Is it measuring the depth of knowledge that the standard demands?

14. Congruent vs. Correlated Curriculum Are They Really The Same?