What if…

1. What if… You could use data to guide professional development? You could have consistency across grade levels? You could know how well aligned your state standards were to the state assessment? You could compare how you teach content compared to how others across the nation teach? You could use anonymous teacher data to start a powerful school discussion about what the teacher needs are?

2. Introducing… Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum for English Language Arts Reading, Mathematics, and Science

4. Collaborating Organizations

5. SEC Collaborative Members State Education Agencies representing: • New Hampshire • North Carolina • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Wisconsin • Idaho • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Maine • Michigan • Mississippi

6. The teacher survey tool… • Collects data on what content is taught and how it is taught. • Produces reports indicating the degree of alignment between the taught (enacted) curriculum and state assessments or standards. • Collects data on teacher beliefs, readiness to teach the content and readiness to instruct special groups of students. • Provides a rich source of information to support teachers analysis of student learning challenges.

7. The SEC can help your schools… • Align curriculum, instruction, and assessment including vertical alignment • Improve instruction within and across grade levels, • Determine professional development needs • Focus teacher planning and development on instructional practice and its effects on student performance • Focus coaching and mentoring activity around content and practice

8. The SEC can … • Help teachers monitor changes in practice as a result of implementing new curricula. • Help teachers and leaders determine areas of need when planning for professional development. • Help teachers see areas for deepening content expertise and knowledge of how students learn that content. • Help teachers identify gaps/redundancies in curriculum –weak materials to support instruction

9. Survey Sections • Instructional Readiness • Teacher Opinions • Professional Development • Types • Content Focus • Active Learning • Collegial Participation • Coherence • Time Span • Teacher Characteristics • Instructional Content • School & Class Description • Instructional Activities • General • Problem Solving Activities • Pairs & Small Group Work • Use of Hands-on Materials • Use of Calculators/Computers & other Ed. Tech. • Assessment Use • Instructional Influences

10. SEC Survey Administration Procedures for completing on-line surveys Procedures for completing paper surveys

11. Approximately 60-90 minutes to compete May be completed in multiple sittings Data is saved as each section is completed Online Survey Administration

12. SEC Online Registration www.seconline.org

13. SEC Online Registration Registrar Area

14. SEC Online Registration Registration Page

15. SEC Online Registration Final Step

16. SEC Online Survey Menu

17. SEC Online Instructions for Selecting the Target Class • For all questions, please respond only for the selected subject. • If you teach more than one class in this subject, respond only for the first class that you teach each week for this subject. • If that is a split class (i.e., the class contains more than one group for instruction, and each group is taught separately), respond for only one group.

18. Your data is saved each time you click on a Submit button.

19. You may log-off at any time by simply closing your browser.

20. Your progress will be noted on survey menu when you return.

21. Reporting Instructional Content • Encourage use of lesson plans, grade books, text, etc. to recall • Topic Coverage organized and reported by Content Area • Number Sense, Properties & Relationships • Measurement • Data Analysis, Statistics, Probability • Algebraic Concepts • Geometric Concepts • Instructional Technology • Cognitive Demand reported for each topic covered (e.g. math) • Memorize • Perform Procedures • Demonstrate Understanding of Mathematical Ideas • Conjecture, Generalize, Prove • Solve non-routine problems, make connections

22. Reporting Instructional Content Step 1: Report time spent on topics taught

23. Reporting Instructional Content Step 2: Set expectations for students for each topic taught.

24. Reporting Instructional Content Step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2 for each content area presented. Step 1: Report time spent on topics. Step 2: Report expectations for students.

25. Survey Completion Editing Results • Completed survey sections may be reviewed/edited until: • The survey completion window has closed • 2) You review results for a given survey section • To review/edit responses: • Check the box on the Survey Menu Screen next to the section you want to review/edit. (Completed sections will be identified by green text.)

26. Reviewing Results Online Report Generator

29. Instructional content can be reported using a variety of graphic displays

30. SEC Online reports instructional content using tile charts. Drop-down menus allow you to select grade-specific and course-specific results for your school, district and state, in addition to reports of your own results.

31. Approximately 60-90 minutes to complete Complete the back cover information first Teacher confidentiality is maintained by using individually sealed envelopes Paper Survey Administration

32. SEC Paper Survey Back Cover Information

33. SEC Paper Survey Instructions for Selecting the Target Class • For all questions, please respond only for the selected subject. • If you teach more than one class in this subject, respond only for the first class that you teach each week for this subject. • If that is a split class (i.e., the class contains more than one group for instruction, and each group is taught separately), respond for only one group.

34. Sample Survey Section

35. Reporting Instructional Content • Encourage use of lesson plans, grade books, text, etc. to recall • Topic Coverage organized and reported by Content Area • Number Sense, Properties & Relationships • Measurement • Data Analysis, Statistics, Probability • Algebraic Concepts • Geometric Concepts • Instructional Technology • Cognitive Demand reported for each topic covered (e.g. math) • Memorize • Perform Procedures • Demonstrate Understanding of Mathematical Ideas • Conjecture, Generalize, Prove • Solve non-routine problems, make connections

36. Reporting Instructional Content Instructions for paper version

37. Content Maps

38. Provide comparisons of standards, assessments, instruction and learning

39. For additional information and resources, visit: SEC Collaborative (Council of Chief State School Officers) SEC Support (Learning Point Associates) SEC Online (Wisconsin Center for Education Research)