Linking Standards

1. Linking Standards EDT 3470 –Team Web Sites November 12 & 14, 2012

2. Presentation Outline • Standards Basics Review • What are standards? • Why are standards important? • Pre-Service Teacher ~ EDT 3470 • Course goal • Your charge and duty • Team Web Site • Linking Standards • So before moving on, can anyone tell me what standards are? Why they are important?

3. Standards are the basis for what teachers teach and what students learn. • True • False

4. Standards Basic Review What are standards? • Standards spell out what students are expected to learn in each grade and each subject.

5. Standards Basic Review (cont) Why are standards important? • When teachers and principals know what students are expected to know, they unleash the power of their own creativity and have the freedom to innovate. (ed.gov – Sect. Anne Duncan, 2010) • Ex. Edison Elementary – Environmental Economics • I had the opportunity to ask him how did they as teachers approach this. He said they looked at the benchmarks and standards in KPS and those in Battle Creek, who did the same program, then they formulated the PBL…so it was created with a purpose • Can anyone provide for me some innovations or creativity they saw in the presentation last week? • What kinds of standards do you believe those projects met?

6. Standards and You • Each state Department of Education creates standards for schools within the state. • These standards become the basis for the way teachers are trained, what they teach and what is on state standardized tests that students take. • How you are trained (Pre-Service and PD) • What you teach…even how you teach • Basis of your instruction • Student Assessment • Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) • Content Area - MGLECs

7. Pre-Service Teacher • With that in mind, lets look at this in relation to you as a Pre-Service Teacher (That Training I just mentioned) • In relation to EDT 3470, everything you have covered this semester was based around “meeting or exceeding the 2008 ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.” (EDT 3470 – Syllabus) • Your Charge – Team Web Site Assignment

8. Team web site is just a place to put all assignments completed during EDT3470. • True • False

9. Team Web Site • The end of the semester Team Web Site is an accumulation of items for your Project-Based Learning topic and requires team members (selected during week 2) to work together during the last weeks of the semester. Team Web Sites will be presented during Finals Weeks. • Most projects created in this semester will be attached to your Team Web Site (Week 12 – EDT3470 Site)

10. Team Project • Goal: target for this web site is for teachers. • Will contain information and resources on how to implement project-based learning, walking students through the process of a a specific project. The web site should be developed in a clear, logical way with activities, examples, etc.

11. Team Web Site • What you will NOT do… • Link only your lesson plan standards • What you will DO… • Link all standards from MGLCE and ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation that your web site meets. • Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations • If you feel for that area does have enough, Michigan Curriculum Frameworks • International Society of Technology in Education

12. Linking Standards • One of the most useful steps and a requirement for this Team project is to Link Standards • Why is this important? • Again, everything has a base, even your book … • Teachers using your web site need to know what standards you based all of your projects and lessons from. • Assures that your instruction is based off of clear-cut goals and objectives that will aid in insuring your students learning process and success; and will provide the same for other teachers

13. How will I do this? • Back on the Dos/Don’ts slide, I mentioned that you will not link lesson plan standards. Your web site is so much more than two lesson plans. • You will need to go back with each one of your assignments and new ideas, which will be introduced and discussed with you next week, and find the standards that align and are the foundation of the new ideas to be implemented. • Taskstream! Taskstream! Taskstream! • Taskstream does a great job of breaking down the standards in a format that isn’t overwhelming and easy to copy and paste. • Ex. MGLECs are categorized by Grade Level -> Subject Area -> Core Subject Areas -> Disciplines and Expectations

14. How will I do this? • PBL - Butterflies • ePals and Google Docs • Skype, email, and IM to communicate with a 3rd grade class in Mexico • Butterfly Habitat and Different types of butterflies • Compare and Contrast • Life Cycle of a Butterfly Presentations • Exchanging Student-Replicas of Butterflies • Taskstream • Showing them how to link can be optional now, see next slide • Go to Taskstream and do standards • Again, if I don’t feel this had enough support, I can always look at MI Curr. Framework or other, but I must have the MGLECs (adapted from Week 3 PBL examples)

15. Creating Original Resources You will be required to create an original teaching resource. Discuss with Group, what lesson would you be able to teach to meet the following standard: • MI- Michigan Grade Level Content ExpectationsSubject: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS Grade: FOURTH GRADE Strand: SPEAKING Topic: Spoken Discourse Expectation: S.DS.04.01 Engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning (e.g., book clubs, literature circles, partnerships, or other conversation protocols). • Expectation: S.DS.04.03 Respond to multiple text types by reflecting, making connections, taking a position and sharing understandings. • Expectation: S.DS.04.04 Plan and deliver presentations or reports focusing on a key question using an informational organizational pattern (e.g., descriptive, problem/solution, cause and effect), supportive facts, and details reflecting and emphasizing facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language.

16. Creating Original Resources (cont) Discuss with Group, what lesson would you be able to teach to meet the following standard: • Subject: Social Studies Grade: Grade Four: United States Studies Strand: Economics Topic: E1 Market Economy • Expectation: 4. E1.0.1 Identify questions economists ask in examining the United States (e.g., What is produced? How is it produced? How much is produced? Who gets what is produced? What role does the government play in the economy?). • Expectation: 4.E1.0.3 Describe how positive and negative incentives influence behavior in a market economy. • Expectation: 4. E1.0.4 Explain how price affects decisions about purchasing goods and services (substitute goods). • Expectation: 4. E1.0.6 Explain how competition among buyers results in higher prices and competition among sellers results in lower prices (e.g., supply, demand).

17. Questions?

18. Conclusion • Please don’t take anything you learned this year for granted • Critics argue that having rigid standards and tests discourages schools from being innovative and inspiring creativity in their students. Because the emphasis is on basic skills such as reading and math, subjects that are not tested, such as art and history, get less emphasis in the classroom. • But through PBL, you are able to be innovative and inspire creativity in your students in every area

19. Today’s lecture was: • Interesting and relevant • Just interesting • Just relevant • Uninteresting and irrelevant