1. Standards and Instruction Putting it All Together Linda Dressel November 29, 2014 St. Leo University

2. Putting It All Together Common Core Standards Instructional Practices Student Performance

3. Common Core Standards What are they? -Clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know from Kindergarten through 12 th grade. -Drafted by experts and teachers from across the country -Designed to ensure students are prepared for freshman-level college courses, entry-level careers, and workforce training programs -Focus on critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills (Development Process, 2010)

4. Effective Instructional Practices What do they look like?

5. Effective Instructional Practices Effective Instructional Practices Establish and communicate learning goals ◦Goals vs. activities ◦Rubric or scale for each goal ◦Students identify own goals ◦Celebrate success and/or growth Help students interact with new knowledge ◦Identify most important ideas ◦Present in small chunks ◦Ask questions that require elaboration ◦Students reflect on learning

6. Effective Instructional Practices Effective Instructional Practices Help Students Practice and Deepen Understanding ◦Structured practice can provide rigor ◦Help students find errors in thinking ◦Assign purposeful homework Help Students Generate and Test Hypotheses ◦Have students design their own tasks ◦Teach students about effective support ◦Engage students in tasks that require them to generate and support hypotheses

7. Effective Instructional Practices Effective Instructional Practices Engage Students ◦Games focused on content ◦Physical movement ◦Inconsequential competition ◦Demonstrate enthusiasm ◦Provide unusual information Establish and Maintain Rules and Procedures ◦Organize classroom for effective learning ◦Small set of rules and procedures ◦Periodically review rules and procedures and adjust as necessary ◦Use classroom meetings

8. Effective Instructional Practices Effective Instructional Practices Recognize and Acknowledge Adherence to Rules and Procedures ◦Simple verbal and nonverbal acknowledgement ◦Be “with it” ◦Use direct cost consequences Establish and Maintain Relationships with Students ◦ Know about each student ◦Bring student interests into content ◦Use humor where appropriate ◦Project a degree of emotional objectivity

9. Effective Instructional Practices Effective Instructional Practices Communicate High Expectations for All Students ◦Identify expectation level for students ◦Ensure students receive verbal and nonverbal indications that they are valued and respected ◦Ask questions to all students Develop effective lessons ◦Identify focus of instruction ◦Plan for content-specific lesson segments ◦Develop flexible draft of daily activities for a unit ◦Review important ideas and effective teaching daily(Marzano & Brown, 2009)

10. Your group will be assigned one of the Effective Instructional Practices. On the chart paper at your table, explain how this practice would look in the classroom. Hang your chart paper on the bookshelves in the front of the Media Center when you have finished. You will have approximately ten minutes to complete. We will share our ideas when we have finished.

11. Measures of Student Performance -Formative assessment -Summative assessment -Performance-based tasks -Teacher observations -Informal assessments -Student reflections How do we assess? Share with your tablemates specific ways you utilize assessment in your classroom.

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13. References Development Process. (2010, January 1). Retrieved November 24, 2014, from http://www.corestandards.org/about-the- standards/development-process/http://www.corestandards.org/about-the- Marzano, R., & Brown, J. (2009). A handbook for the art and science of teaching. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development