Engineering Effective LOs and DOLs

1. Engineering Effective LOs and DOLs Presented by: Dallas ISD’s Academic Facilitators

2. Agenda • Welcome & Focus • Brain Dump • L to the O • LO Power Up • DOL • DOL Power Up • Constructing Coaching Conversations • Reflection and Closure

3. Learning Objective/ Demonstration of Learning Learning Objective Coaches will be able to evaluate ineffective and effective LO's and DOL's. Demonstration of Learning Given a rubric, coaches will evaluate a set of 3 Lo's and DOL's with 100% accuracy.

4. Brain Dump On the butcher paper at your table, “dump” everything you know about LO's and DOL's. **You can bullet your info, illustrate, paragraph format, or create a metaphor/simile: Lo's are like_____because________...........

5. What is a Learning Objective (LO)? A learning objective is a specific, result statement of what the learner will know, understand, and/or accomplish following a learning activity.

6. Characteristics of an Effective LO: • Clear, rigorous, and outcomes-based • Aligned to district curriculum maps & assessments, as well as state’s standards • Focuses teacher and students throughout the lesson • Can be taught in 1 lesson • Students can explain what they are learning, why it is important, what mastery looks like, how to connect it to prior knowledge and their lives

7. A Learning Objective is NOT... • an agenda or a schedule. • a description of an activity or resource. • description of the vehicle or method used to teach the concept. • too broad or vague.

8. LO Example SE: 6.2 B use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple meaning words; Readiness Standard LO: Students will be able to (SWBAT) infer the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within the text, Sharks Attack.

9. LO POWER

10. What is a Demonstration of Learning, (DOL)? A Demonstration of Learning is an assessment or product through which students demonstrate that they have learned the objective of the lesson.

11. Characteristics of an Effective DOL • Clear/understandable and rigorous • Developed in advance • Measures student mastery or growth in knowledge and skill relative to standards of the posted objective • Can be accomplished in 5-10 minutes independently by students

12. A DOL is NOT... • a check for understanding. • an activity or project used to teach the objective. • a quiz or exam that assesses multiple objectives. • homework. • group work

13. DOL Example SE: 6.2 B use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple meaning words; Readiness Standard LO: Students will be able to (SWBAT) infer the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues within the text, Sharks Attack. DOL: Given a text, students will be able to infer the meaning of 3 out of 4 underlined vocabulary words using context clues.

14. DOL POWER

15. Constructing Coaching Conversations As a coach, it is your responsibility to build capacity in the teachers at your campus.

16. Things to Consider • Offer praise • Verbalize the objective/goal of the meeting • CLEARLY identify the problem • List concrete action step(s)

17. Scenario directions... • At your tables, determine who is partner A and partner B • Review the LO/DOL Rubric • Role play a teacher and coach conversation to create an aligned LO/DOL

18. Reflection With your elbow partner, connect your learning to the Core Beliefs. • Our main purpose is to improve student academic achievement. • Effective instruction makes the most difference in student academic performance. • There is no excuse for poor quality instruction. • With our help, at risk students will achieve at the same rate as non-at risk students. • Staff members must have a commitment to the pursuit of excellence. Next Steps???

19. Resources • Costas/Blooms Levels • Curriculum Central Calendar Maps 5th/Pre K-2 • LO/DOL Cheat Sheet