CTE Standards Revisions (Phase II) Workshop

1. CTE Standards Revisions (Phase II) Workshop Steven Gass Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Consultant

2. CTE Standards Revisions (Phase II) Workshop Steven Gass Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Consultant Steven.Gass@tn.gov (615) 528-2847 www.tn.gov/education/cte CTE.Questions@tn.gov Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

3. Objectives By the end of training today, each of you will be able to: • Understand the instructional expectations of the new standards, including: • Alignment to Common Core State Standards for Literacy in Technical Subjects • The knowledge and skills expected in each standard • Connections to general education course standards • Develop initial resources for use in your classroom to implement the new standards, including: • High quality objectives • Curriculum map • Know where to find resources, tools, and support for implementing the new standards. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

4. Agenda * Participant work time, take breaks as needed Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

5. Setting the Context Overview of CTE Standards Revisions Process (Phase II) Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

6. Setting the Context: Standards Revision Process Building Pathways for Students Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

7. Setting the Context: Standards Revision Results AFNR Courses Approved on Final Reading: • Advanced Food Science • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering • Agricultural Business and Finance • Agricultural Power and Equipment • Agriscience • Applied Environmental Science • Food Science and Safety • Greenhouse Management • Introduction to Agricultural Sciences (Grades 7&8) • Landscaping and Turf Science • Large Animal Science • Natural Resource Management • Organizational Leadership and Communications • Plant and Soil Science • Principles of Agribusiness • Principles of Agricultural Mechanics • Principles of Food Production • Principles of Plant Science and Hydroculture • Small Animal Science • Supervised Agricultural Experience • Veterinary Science Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

8. New Course Description Documents Features of new and revised standards that will help you in your classroom. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

9. New Course Description Documents: Overview Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

10. New Course Description Documents: Overview Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

11. New Course Description Documents: Look and Feel Existing: Plant and Soil Science Revised: Plant and Soil Science 5.0 Analyze the chemical elements essential to plant nutrition and the importance and benefits of proper soil fertility. 5.1  Specify and explain terms related to soil chemistry and plant nutrition. 5.7  Measure soil pH and its effects on nutrient availability. 5.8  Assess the nutrient deficiency symptoms in plants 10)Assess the importance of the sixteen nutrients essential to plant growth and development. Identify nutritional deficiencies and disorders, distinguish among signs of nutrient deficiency in plants, make recommendations for appropriate treatments, and prescribe preventative control measures for major agricultural crops, including corn, soybean, cotton, tobacco, hay, pasture, and forest. (CCSS Reading 2, 5; CCSS Writing 2, 4, 9; TN Biology II 7) Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

12. Knowledge and Skills How to Unpack a Standard Steven Gass Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Consultant

13. What’s Happening Today Part One of Three Part Series • “Knowledge and Skills: Unpacking Course Standards” is part one of a three-part series developed to assist CTE teachers in preparing for implementation of the new and revised CTE course standards (Phase II) for 2014-15 school year. • You will walk away this afternoon with tools to use in your classroom. Objective for this Session • Understand the instructional expectations of the new standards, including: • Alignment to Common Core State Standards for Literacy in Technical Subjects • The knowledge and skills expected in each standard • Connections to general education course standards Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

14. Why Unpack a Standard? • Unpacking a standard into knowledge and skills allows for a sequenced approach to instruction that is grounded in real world application. • Once teachers have broken down the knowledge and skills inherent in their standards, they can start to group standards with like content to conceptually deepen student understanding. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

15. Process for Unpacking a Standard The first step in translating CTE course standards into relevant, engaging and student outcome-focused lessons involves a careful reading of the standards to ensure clarity and an understanding of how the parts fit together. Process we’ll be using today: • Identify and highlight nouns and verbs in the standard • Determine the “knowledge” and “skills” students need to be proficient • Reference aligned Common Core State Standards for additional detail • Enhance K&S with embedded CCSS expectations for students Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

16. Process for Unpacking a Standard Process can be started by simply underlining or highlighting the nouns and verbs within the standard. The nouns are the “what” and the verbs are the “how.” Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

17. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Knowledge Example: Agriscience Standard 7) Critique the dynamics of biomass and energy flow in ecosystems by analyzing the major components of a food chain. Analyze the structure of the relationships among the concepts of carrying capacity, species populations, and organism interactions within multiple ecosystems and natural habitats. (TN CCSS Reading 5; TN CCSS Writing 1, 9; TN Biology I 2, 3; TN Biology II 2, 3) Step 1: Highlight/Underline the NOUNS to identify the “knowledge” components. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

18. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Knowledge Example: Agriscience Standard 7) Critique the dynamics of biomass and energyflowin ecosystems by analyzing the major components of a food chain. Analyze the structure of the relationships among the concepts of carryingcapacity, speciespopulations, and organisminteractionswithin multiple ecosystems and natural habitats. (TN CCSS Reading 5; TN CCSS Writing 1, 9; TN Biology I 2, 3; TN Biology II 2, 3) Step 1: Highlight/Underline the NOUNS to identify the “knowledge” components. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

19. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Skills Example: Agriscience Standard 13) Critique the dynamics of biomass and energy flow in ecosystems by analyzing the major components of a food chain. Analyze the structure of the relationships among the concepts of carrying capacity, species populations, and organism interactions within multiple ecosystems and natural habitats. (TN CCSS Reading 5; TN CCSS Writing 1, 9; TN Biology I 2, 3; TN Biology II 2, 3) Step 1 Continued: Highlight/Underline the VERBS to identify the “skills” components. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

20. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Skills Example: Agriscience Standard 7) Critique the dynamics of biomass and energy flow in ecosystems by analyzingthe major components of a food chain. Analyze the structure of the relationships among the concepts of carrying capacity, species populations, and organism interactions within multiple ecosystems and natural habitats. (TN CCSS Reading 5; TN CCSS Writing 1, 9; TN Biology I 2, 3; TN Biology II 2, 3) Step 1 Continued: Be careful! Sometimes, you need to search for descriptive adjectives to really know what the standard is looking for. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

21. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Add to Chart Step 1 Continued: Once the knowledge and skills are identified in the standard, the teacher can place these into a knowledge and skills chart. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

22. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Add to Chart Step 1 Continued: It is important to not stop here! Many times, you will need to expand concepts into what students would need to know to fully grasp concepts. This needed detail will be necessary to plan thorough lessons. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

23. Process for Unpacking a Standard: CCSS Step 2: Once you have identified the knowledge and skills within the standard, reference the aligned Common Core State Standards in Technical Subjects and relevant general education standards (if applicable) listed at the end of the standard. Example: Agriscience Standard 7) Critique the dynamics of biomass and energy flow in ecosystems by analyzing the major components of a food chain. Analyze the structure of the relationships among the concepts of carrying capacity, species populations, and organism interactions within multiple ecosystems and natural habitats. (TN CCSS Reading 5; TN CCSS Writing 1, 9; TN Biology I 2, 3; TN Biology II 2, 3) Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

24. Process for Unpacking a Standard: CCSS Step 2 Continued: These referenced standards will assist you in creating strong objectives, understanding how to present information to students and what additional types of information should be used to support conceptual understanding of the knowledge and skills identified in the CTE standard. Example: Agriscience (Standard 7) • TN CCSS Writing 9:Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. • TN Biology I 2: All life is interdependent and interacts with the environment. • (3210.2.4 Investigate an outdoor habitat to identify the abiotic and biotic factors, plant and animal populations, producers, consumers, and decomposers.) Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

25. Process for Unpacking a Standard: Add to Chart Step 2 Continued: Once the knowledge and skills are identified in the standard, the teacher can place these into a knowledge and skills chart. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

26. You do! Now, continue this process for the rest of the standards in your selected course. Resources: • Common Core State Standards Poster • Course Description Document • Knowledge and Skills worksheet Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

27. Strong Objectives How to Write Aligned, Specific and Measurable Statements Steven Gass Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Consultant

28. What’s Happening Today Part Two of Three Part Series • “Strong Objectives: How to Write Aligned, Specific and Measurable Statements” is part two of a three-part series developed to assist CTE teachers in preparing for implementation of the new and revised CTE course standards (Phase II) for 2014-15 school year. • You will walk away this afternoon with tools to use in your classroom. Objective for this Session • Develop initial resources for use in your classroom to implement the new standards, including: • High quality objectives Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

29. Recap • New look of course description document • Course at a glance • Endorsement requirements • Content buckets • New format of course standards • CCSS aligned with and embedded in standards • Comprehensive standard with competencies embedded • Knowledge and Skills identified • Nouns • Verbs Now: Use knowledge and skills to breakdown of standards to write strong objectives. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

30. Why Write Strong Objectives? • Objectives guide the activities and assessments we chose to improve and evaluate our students’ understanding of concepts. • Objectives should be the learning related to the standards, meaning, they describe the intended student learning outcome inherent in a standard. • Objectives refer to a description of observable student knowledge and/or performance. • The stronger the objective, the higher the level of understanding the students are able to reach. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

31. Components of a Strong Objective A strong objective should be clearly aligned to standards, specific and measurable. The objective should tell us explicitly what a student should be able to do fluently by the end of the lesson or unit to demonstrate proficiency of a specific standard or set of standards. It should answer two questions: What should the student be able to do? • What new pieces of knowledge (such as the description of a concept or the definition of a key term) will students be able to understand and explain? • What new skill will students be able to perform? This is something each student is going to walk away with inside his or her head that wasn’t there before. How is the student going to reach that outcome? • What process or strategy will students use to achieve the learning goal? • What activities will we use to assess student understanding? Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

32. Components of a Strong Objective Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

33. Components of a Strong Objective Writing Process: • Determine the specific knowledge and skills you are trying to accomplish. • Arrange the knowledge and skills into a “students will be able to” statement, noting the distinct concept(s) you will be covering and also the approach you will be using with your students. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

34. Components of a Strong Objective Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

35. Writing a Strong Objective: Example Start with knowledge and skills from previous worksheet. Remember to also consider the referenced standards in CCSS for technical subjects, general education, and others. Example: Agriscience Standard 7 Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

36. Checking our work • Let’s take a look at our sample objectives and see if they meet the criteria we established earlier for strong objectives. We said that strong objectives should be specific and measurable. • Did we accomplish this? Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

37. You do! Now, continue this process for the rest of the standards in your selected course. Resources: • Common Core State Standards Poster • Course Description Document • Knowledge and Skills worksheet • Objectives worksheet Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

38. Using a Curriculum Map How to Plan Instruction Steven Gass Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Career Cluster Consultant

39. What’s Happening Today Part Three of Three Part Series • “Using a Curriculum Map: How to Plan Instruction”is part three of a three-part series developed to assist CTE teachers in preparing for implementation of the new and revised CTE course standards (Phase II) for 2014-15 school year. • You will walk away this afternoon with tools to use in your classroom. Objective for this Session • Develop initial resources for use in your classroom to implement the new standards, including: • Curriculum map Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

40. Recap • New look of course description document • New format of course standards • Knowledge and Skills identified • Used the knowledge and skills to develop strong objectives (SWBAT) • Specific • Measurable • Aligned to standards Now: Use knowledge, skills, and strong objectives to plan curriculum and create assessments. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

41. What is a Curriculum Map? A curriculum map is a plan for how a teacher will teach a specific course. Curriculum maps are not: • Meant to be an exhaustive list of every class topic Curriculum maps: • Are major ideas and projects that drive a class, in order to help a teacher plan out a basic schedule for units, activities and assessments • Are meant to be used to answer basic questions about sequencing, pacing, and unit planning • Can be used to plan lessons effectively and efficiently throughout the course Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

42. What is a Curriculum Map? A Curriculum maps cover a wide range of important curricular activities. Typically, they attempt to: • create a "snapshot" of the plan for educational activities of a specific course • capture the content, skills, and assessments throughout the course • organize information into an easily accessed visual that presents a timeline of instruction Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

43. Why use a Curriculum Map? The purpose of creating and using curriculum maps is to help teachers pace the year to ensure all the standards within a course will be covered. Curriculum maps offer a sequence for delivering content and provide a clear scope for what must be taught to all students, based on course standards. Mapping curriculum: • Enables teachers to assure that they allocate sufficient time to cover each standard and objective. • Provides clarity for teaching strategies with full-course picture. • Allows you to see full-course balance between teacher-directed concepts and student-generated investigations. • Allows you to plan proactively for activities that might take advance notice (like scheduling a guest speaker or ordering laboratory materials) and allow preparation time for longer research projects. • Facilitates assessment planning. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

44. Curriculum Map Development Process Process Overview: • Set-up the Curriculum Mapping Tool with basic information • Transfer course content from Knowledge and Skills worksheet • Transfer strong objectives from Writing Objectives worksheet and estimate timing for each • Plan instructional activities and assessments Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

45. Curriculum Map Tool Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

46. Using the Curriculum Map Tool Step 1:Start by inserting the “Course Name” and appropriate “Grade” information for the course in the header of the curriculum map tool. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

47. Using the Curriculum Map Tool Step 1 Continued: Continue by looking at the course description document and scroll down the standards to find the thematic concepts that serve as headings for groups of standards. These group headers can serve as an initial organization of units. Place these bolded titles into the “Unit Title” column to get started. Units can be tweaked later if necessary to better organize activities. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

48. Using the Curriculum Map Tool Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

49. Using the Curriculum Map Tool Step 2: The next step is to take the standards and the knowledge and skills within each standard that you have worked to break down and input them into the appropriate columns in the curriculum map tool. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE

50. Using the Curriculum Map Tool Step 3: The next step is to take the strong objective statements that you have been crafted based on the knowledge and skills and input them into the appropriate column in the curriculum map tool. As you do this, estimate the amount of time teaching each objective will take. Realizing Postsecondary and Career Readiness through CTE