Teaching for Understanding: Delawares ELA Statewide Recommended Curriculum

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Teaching for UnderstandingDelawares ELA
Statewide Recommended Curriculum

• Juley Harper-
• ELA Education Associate
• Julia Webster-
• Reading Education Associate

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Summary of Tasks Completed in ELA

• Grade Level Expectations
• Alignment of GLEs
• Clarifications Document
• Model Ubd units
• Model Syllabi/Course Descriptions
• Model Assessments

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ELA Design Team

• Chairs
• Juley Harper (DOE)
• Julia Webster (DOE)
• Design Team
• Ann Lewis (Laurel) Pat Clements (NCCVT)
• Becky Sharp (Polytech) Elizabeth Tiffany (IR)
• Aleta Thompson (Cape) Debbie OBrien (Lake)
• Bonnie Albertson (UD) Denise Allen (DOE)
• Sandy Baker (Laurel) Sharon Biss (Red Clay)
• Cathy Cofrancesco (Cape) Debbie Buffington (IR)
• Vicki Divittorio (Delmar) Debbie Fetzer (Red
  Clay)
• Deanne McCredie (UD) Sandy Meyers (DOE)
• Kate Siegel (DOE) June Wicks (Smyrna)
• Mary Wright (Colonial)

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What are the DE ELA Content Standards?

• Standard 1 (Writing Standard)- Students will use
  written and oral English appropriate for various
  purposes and audiences.
• Standard 2 (Reading Standard)- Students will
  construct, examine, and extend the meaning of
  literary, informative, and technical texts
  through listening, reading and viewing.
• Standard 3 (Research Standard)- Students will
  access, organize and evaluate information gained
  through listening, reading, and viewing.
• Standard 4 (Literary Standard)- Students will use
  literary knowledge accessed through print and
  visual media to connect self to society and
  culture.

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What are Performance Indicators?

• The original Performance Indicators (PIs) were
  written in 1998 and included in the Teachers
  Desk Reference
• They articulated the English Language Arts
  Content Standards
• The original PIs established end of cluster
  expectations for grades K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and 9-10
• The original PIs were NOT written for individual
  grades

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What are Grade Level Expectations/GLEs?

• A framework built on Content Standards, Cluster
  Expectations, and Performance Indicators
• A document that fully articulates expectations
  for each grade level
• A teacher-friendly document that is not meant to
  be a scope and sequence check list
• A tool for teachers that is now available on the
  DOE website
• Are now available on the DOE website
• http//www.doe.k12.de.us/englangarts/elahome.html
  
• http//www.doe.k12.de.us/reading/

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How to best use the GLEs

• Curriculum mapping/pacing guides
• Unit and lesson development
• Lesson implementation
• Assessment design
• Informal assessment of student learning

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How NOT to use the GLEs

• As a checklist for disjointed lesson topics
• As a discrete set of skills
• As justification for not extending student
  learning beyond Grade Level Expectations

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Review WRITING GLEsStandard 1

• Read the Writing Grade Level Expectations for the
  grade level(s) you teach. (ex. Gd.7 Reading reads
  gd. 7 GLEs)
• Read the Writing GLEs for the grade before ex.
  (gd. 6) and after (gd. 8) the grade level(s) you
  teach.
• Note any differences between the grades.
• (Differences will be underlined)

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Review READING GLEs-Standards 2 4

• 1. Read the Reading Grade Level Expectations for
  the grade level(s) you teach. (ex. Gd.10 ELA
  reads gds. 9/10 GLEs)
• 2. Read the Reading GLEs for the grade before ex.
  (gd. 9) and after (gds. 11/12) the grade level(s)
  you teach.
• 3. Note any differences between the grades.
• (Differences will be underlined)

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GLE Treasure Hunt

• Directions
• With others at your table (groups of 2,3 or 4),
  navigate through the Standard 1 Writing ELA Grade
  Level Expectations to find the information below.

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Jeopardy Game

• Website for blank template

http//www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/download/bla
nkjeopardy.ppt http//www.elainefitzgerald.com/Je
opardy1Template.ppt256,2,Slide 2
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What are the Components of Delaware Recommended
Curriculum?

• Standards clarifications
• Enduring understandings
• Essential questions
• Model instructional units
• Model grade-level assessments
• Model grade-level syllabi
• ALL COMPONENTS ARE ALIGNED
• WITH CONTENT STANDARDS AND
• GLEs

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What is a Clarifications Document?

• It defines and extends the meaning of the four
  ELA standards for educators
• It provides suggestions, examples, and
  non-examples of what teaching and learning at the
  level of the standards looks like in a classroom

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What are Model Instructional Units?

• They are based on the Understanding by Design
  framework
• They focus on a major topic
• They typically last from a few days to a few
  weeks
• They are divided into THREE stages
• Desired Results
• Assessment Evidence
• Learning Activities

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What are model grade-level Assessments?

• Assessments are embedded in UbD units
• There are TWO kinds of assessments
• 1. Formative Assessments
• On-going
• Guides teaching and learning
• Examples quizzes, oral questioning, prompts,
  observations, reviews of draft work

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Model grade-level Assessments Continued

• Summative Assessments
• End of unit, complex challenge
• Requires a transfer of knowledge and skills to
  effectively perform or create a product to reveal
  ones understanding
• Examples performance tasks, end of unit projects

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What are Model Grade-level Syllabi/Course
Descriptions?

• They are
• A focused plan written for teachers/educators
• Written for a year or semester
• Based on the content standards and Grade Level
  Expectations
• A compilation of a variety of texts,
  methodologies, performance tasks, content
  descriptions
• NOT a detailed schedule for the student
• NOT a week by week lesson plan for the teacher

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Next Steps

• Provide Professional Development for districts on
  SRC
• Develop and implement all DE educators in UbD
• Develop SRC web page
• Develop parent and community brochures
• Distribute SRC newsletter
• Pilot, review and jury UbD model units
• Write model UbD syllabi

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QUESTIONS?
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For further information...

• Contacts
• grant_at_authenticeducation.org
• jharper_at_doe.k12.de.us
• jwebster_at_doe.k12.de.us
• Check out Big Ideas, an online newsletter, with
  monthly resources on every aspect of good design
  
• www.bigideas.org
• www.ubdexchange.org

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• THANK YOU!