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Deeply Aligned Teaching. How to prepare students for success on statewide testing. Participants will:. Recognize effective learning targets that align to the written curriculum. Become aware of vocabulary essential to success on statewide tests.
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Deeply Aligned Teaching How to prepare students for success on statewide testing
Participants will: • Recognize effective learning targets that align to the written curriculum. • Become aware of vocabulary essential to success on statewide tests. • Use the Success web site to create practice tests for students. • Examine cognitive level of benchmarks and indicators using SEC web site. • Develop lessons plans with differentiating strategies and interventions that align to the statewide curriculum and tests.
Preparing students and parents • ODE: “Strategies for Taking State Assessments Information for Parents and Students” • Vocabulary: Verbs from standards
Deep Alignment Context Content • Test format • Given information • Given materials • Distractors • Performance verbs • Pre-requisites • Vocabulary • Knowledge & skills • Key concepts • Extension Cognitive Level Classroom application • Knowledge • Process • Analysis • Evaluation • Metacognition • Teaching strategies • Classroom activities • Relevance to life • Assessment • Interventions How will I share with students? How will I go beyond? How will I share with students? How will I go beyond?
Content • Pre-requisites • Vocabulary • Knowledge & skills • Key concepts • Extension How will I share with students? How will I go beyond?
An effective learning target should: • Describe learning goals, not activities (the WHAT and not the HOW) • Tell specifically what the students will be able to know or do • Use indicators from Ohio’s Academic Content Standards • Be “just right” for one lesson unit
Is this an effective learning target? • Do #5-20 on page 167 • Legislative Branch • Explain the causes of World War II • Write a narrative paragraph • Work on your lab project • Fractions • Add fractions and mixed numbers • Describe some battles from the Civil War • Cooking
Context • Success Web site at: • http://portal.success-ode-state-oh-us.info • ODE web site at: http://www.ode.state.oh.us • Teaching: Practice Tests • Teaching: Released Test Material • Scoring guides, blueprints How will I share with students? How will I go beyond?
Some things you need to know: • Grades 5 and 8 social studies and science are benchmark tests. • Indicators from previous years math and reading are fair game. • Biggest errors kids make on constructed response: not responding to the WHOLE question; not understanding question vocabulary.
Cognitive Level • Bloom’s Taxonomy • Recall – know, understand • Process – apply, demonstrate • Analyze – compare, generalize • Evaluate – use in new situations How will I share with students? How will I go beyond?
Some things you need to know: • Surveys of Enacted Curriculum shows cognitive levels required for your grade level indicators and past tests: http://www.seconline.org • Teachers may “cover the material” but not on a high enough cognitive level • HOTS involves PRACTICE
Classroom Application • Teaching strategies • Classroom activities • Relevance to life • Formative/summative assessment • Interventions How will I share with students? How will I go beyond?
The Big Questions • What do students need to learn? • How will I know students have learned it? • What will I do if they don’t learn it? Rick DuFour
Interventions and Strategies • Strategy Ring • A+ software Strategy Ring
Using the GAME Plan Goals – set clear learning targets (OACS) Activities – geared to knowledge or skills (Strategy Ring, SEC web site) • Access previous knowledge • Add new knowledge • Apply in a variety of situations • Assess and summarize what has been learned Measurement – ongoing check for understanding (Success Web site) Evaluation – Now what? (A+ software)
Summing it Up • Compass points E – What excites you about what you have learned today? W – What worries you? N – What else do you need to know? S – What are the next steps you need to take?
Questions for the Consultant: Bonny Buffington, Knox County ESC 740-393-6767 http://www.bonnybuffington.wikispaces.com Bonny_buffington@knoxnet.k12.oh.us