1. STAAR Navigation Guide: 12-13
Focus On Engaging Instruction

2. STAAR Navigation Guide
Three Guides Created Last Year
Focus on Planning
STAAR Resources -

3. STAAR Navigation Guide
New Guide for 12-13
Focus On Engaging Instruction
STAAR Resources -

4. Why Instruction? What do we know?
Effective Instructional Practice:
Concept Attainment
Aligned curriculum
Has our instruction been adjusted to match changing expectations?
TEKS (including CCRS and ELPS)
STAAR
Graduation Requirements (World Ready)
STAAR :
Provides a more clearly articulated assessment program
Focuses on fewer skills
Addresses those skills in a deeper manner

7. Rigor and Relevance
Review p. 7 of the Guide with your table or a small group
Do the district’s instructional practices include the following components?
Check “yes” or “no”

8. Rigor and Relevance
Rigor/Relevance Framework -
“First, there is the Knowledge Taxonomy, a continuum based on the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, which describes the increasingly complex ways in which we think.”
“The second continuum, known as the Application Model, is one of action. Its five levels describe putting knowledge to use.”

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11. Rigor and Relevance Rate your district/campus current practice
Awareness
Implementation
Effective Practice

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13. Resources
Curriculum & Instruction -
Technical Assistance
Professional Development
InSight -
PD Toolkit -