Standards Awareness Day Three Agenda

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Standards AwarenessDay Three Agenda
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5 E Learning Cycle
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SynecticsThinking through Analogy
Human Activity
Human Activity
Human Activity
Human Activity
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Curriculum Adoption is a lot like ______ because
Curriculum Adoption
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A Procedure for Analyzing Curriculum Materials

• It is much harder to compose a symphony,
  choreograph a ballet, or develop a
• curriculum than it is to criticize any one of
  these. Rodger Bybee

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Curriculum Adoption Models

• Individual Teacher
• reviews and selects their own instructional
  materials.

• Selection Committee
• each individual reviews (pilot tests) different
  materials.
• instructional materials selected on basis of
  individual
• reviews.
• _____________________________________________

• Selection Committee
• materials reviewed and evaluated as a group
  using
• established criteria found in published
  checklists.
• adoption decision based on number of established
  criteria met by each program.
• ____________________________________

• Selection Committee Works as a Collaborative
  Group
• establishes their own evaluation criteria.
• designs or adapts selection scoring rubrics.
• collectively examines and evaluates all
  materials.
• uses quantitative data to compare programs and
  justify selection
• decision.

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Standards, Research, Instruction,and Curriculum

• The two major themesstandards and cognitive
  research have parallel implications for classroom
  instruction which then suggests a translation of
  those implications into curriculum (and,
  assessment) materials.
• BSCS, AIM Process

Research-Based Curriculum Development
Research-Based Curriculum Analysis

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Standards Alignment
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How People and Students Learn

• Students often have considerable prior knowledge
  about how their world works
• To become accessible, new facts and ideas must be
  integrated into a students conceptual framework
• Competence is associated with deep and usable
  understanding of key concepts
• Student metacognition should be facilitated

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Curriculum Analysis A Professional Development
Opportunity
Curriculum analysis gets teachers to think
seriously and systematically about standards and
their implications for curriculum content and
instruction.
Kesidou

• Preparing for the Analysis
• Conducting the Analysis

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Preparing for Curriculum Analysis
Teachers often make textbook decisions on factors
unrelated to learning, teaching or standards.
Instead they choose materials that look and feel
familiar
Bush, et al

AIM Process (BSCS)
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Conducting the Evidence-Based Analysis

• Investigate
• Standards
• Assessment
• Instruction
• Learning Activities

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Step I - Select Topic and Grade or Course Level
Expectation

• What specific topic and related GLE/CLE will you
  be using to analyze all of the curriculum
  materials?
• Note Use this same topic and GLE/ CLE to analyze
  all of the curriculum materials.

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Step II - GLE/CLE Look for Evidence of
Alignment

• Where in this curriculum material did you locate
  specific connections to the particular topic and
  CLE/GLE that you selected?
• Enter information in the Curriculum Analysis
  Tool.

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Step III - Assessment PlanLook for Evidence of
Alignment

• What approaches does this curriculum material use
  to Check for Student Understanding of the
  particular topic and GLE/CLE that you selected?
• Enter information in the Curriculum Analysis Tool.

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Step IV- Instructional PlanLook for Evidence of
Alignment

• What instructional approaches does this
  curriculum material recommend to develop student
  understanding of the particular topic and
  learning expectation that you selected?
• Enter information in the Curriculum Analysis Tool.

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Step V - Learning Activities Look for Evidence
of Alignment

• What student activities does this curriculum
  material recommend to develop student
  understanding of the particular topic and
  learning expectation that you selected?
• Enter information in the Curriculum Analysis Tool.

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Gather Other Important Evidence

• Approaches to inquiry
• Attention to ELL
• Methods of differentiation
• Reading level
• Equal access
• Evidence of bias

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Step VI - Apply the Rubric
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Step VII - Examine Scores
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Step VIII - Summarize Results andMake
Recommendations
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An Example BSCS Biology -A Human Approach
Step I - Select a Topic and TN CLE Biology I
Standard Number 2.0 Interdependence Course
Level Expectation CLE 3210.2.1 Investigate how
the dynamic equilibrium of an ecological
community is associated with interactions among
its organisms.
Publisher Kendall Hunt, 2006 Reviewer Richard
Audet
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Look for Evidence of Alignment

• Step II Topic and Learning Expectation
• Ch. 9 316, 367, 381-389
• TE 343
• Step III Assessment Plan
• 315, 319
• TE XIV, 326,334, 342-345
• Step IV Instructional Plan
• TE 325-337
• Step V Student Activities
• 12, 316
• TE XI

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Analyze the Evidence

• Step VI - Apply the Rubric
• Step VII - Examine Scores
• Step VIII - Aggregate Data, Summarize Results,
  Make Recommendations

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The High Stakes of Curriculum Selection
Many teachers rely on textbooks to provide some
or all of their content and pedagogical content
knowledge. Kesidou Roseman
Textbook purchases constitute a significant
portion of school district budgets Depending on
the subject, a single elementary textbook can
range in price from 30 to 100.