1. 1 Training for the New Georgia Performance Standards Day 2: Unpacking the Standards

2. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 2 Module Overview: Day Two  Introduction (0:30)  Large Group Demonstration (1:30)  Unpacking a Single Standard (1:30)  Unpacking Multiple Standards (1:00)  Review of Sample Task Document (0:45)  Summary and Follow Up Work (0:30)

3. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 3 Day Two Objectives 1.Define and describe the rationale for identifying big ideas, enduring understandings, essential questions, and skills and knowledge for a standard. 2.Develop, for a given standard, the big ideas, enduring understandings, essential questions, and skills and knowledge (unpack the standard). 3.Unpack multiple standards to create cohesive units of study.

4. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 4 Group Norms and Housekeeping Group Norms:  Participate and share  Listen with an open mind  Ask questions  Work toward solutions  Honor confidentiality  Meet commitments or let others know if you are struggling to do so Housekeeping:  Phone calls  Rest rooms  Breaks  Lunch

5. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 5 Matching Game 1.There are 13 terms and 13 definitions. 2.Work as a team to match each term to its definition. 3.First team to correctly complete the task is the winner.

6. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 6 Creating a Graphic Representation  Choose a metaphor to represent the terms in the GPS and in backward design.  Create a graphic organizer, using the following terms (add more as needed)  Content Standards  Elements  Performance Standards  Student Work  Tasks  Teacher Commentary  Enduring Understandings  Big Ideas  Essential Questions  Skills and Knowledge Statements  Stage 1 in Backward Design  Stage 2 in Backward Design  Stage 3 in Backward Design

7. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 7 Essential Question 1  What are the steps in unpacking a standard, and why is each one important?

8. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 8 The Process of Backward Design big ideas  understandings and essential questions  skills and knowledge  evidence/assessment

9. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 9 Big Ideas  What are the big ideas and core processes at the heart of this standard?  What do I want to concentrate on and emphasize in this unit?

10. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 10 Enduring Understandings: Bad to Best “Students will understand comprehension strategies.” –Bad: what should they understand? “Students will understand specific strategies for gaining meaning from grade-level text.” –Better: narrows the focus but still does not state what insights we want students to leave with. “Students will understand that effective readers use specific strategies to help them better understand the text (e.g., making predictions from text context, generating questions before, during, and after reading).” –Best: Summarizes intended insight, helps students and teachers realize what types of learning activities are needed to support the understanding.

11. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 11 Enduring Understandings: Format  NO: “Students will understand principles of persuasive speaking.”  NO: “Students will know how to speak persuasively.”  NO: “Speak persuasively in public.”  YES: “Students will understand that persuasion often involves an emotional appeal to the particular wishes, needs, hopes, and fears of an audience, irrespective of how logical and rational the argument.”

12. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 12 Developing Essential Questions  Create two to five per unit.  Should be big, open-ended.  Look at how (process) and why (cause and effect).  Consider various levels in Bloom’s taxonomy.  Use language appropriate to students.  Sequence so they lead naturally from one to another.  Use as organizers for the unit, making the “content” answer the questions.  Share with other teachers.

13. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 13 From Understandings to Questions  Students will understand that persuasion often involves an emotional appeal to the particular wishes, needs, hopes, and fears of an audience, irrespective of how logical and rational the argument. –Essential Question:  Students will understand that vertical height, not the angle and distance of descent, determines the eventual speed of a falling object. –Essential Question:

14. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 14 Skills and Knowledge Facts Concepts Generalizations Rules, laws, procedures KNOWLEDGE (declarative) Skills Procedures Processes SKILLS (procedural)

15. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 15 Levels of Generality of Declarative and Procedural Knowledge Declarative Knowledge Procedural Knowledge Organizing Ideas (general statements for which examples can be provided) - generalizations - principles Details - episode - cause/effect sequence -time sequence, or -fact Vocabulary - terms - phrases General Specific Level of Generality Processes - procedures that involve many component parts that have subcomponents Skills - tactic (general rules governing an overall flow of execution of steps) - algorithm (a single set of steps that must be performed in a specific order)

16. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 16 Essential Question 1  What are the steps in unpacking a standard, why is each one important. What squares with my thinking? What’s still rolling around in my mind? What do I need to change ?

17. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 17 Essential Question 2  How can unpacking a standard enrich our assessment and instruction practices so that all students can reach mastery of the GPS?

18. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 18 Essential Question 2  How can unpacking a standard enrich our assessment and instruction practices so that all students can reach mastery of the GPS? What squares with my thinking? What’s still rolling around in my mind? What do I need to change ?

19. Georgia will lead the nation in improving student achievement. 19 Summary Activity Catalysts 1.Is similar to…. 2.Is the opposite of …. 3.Is a logical extension of … 4.Is a potential problem for… 5.Is essential for… 6.Must be completed by…