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Developing 21st Century Teachers and Administrators Who Can Lead 21st
Century Schools
Chief Instructional LeadersOctober 16, 2008
21st Century Curriculum
21st Century Learning Mission
To grow the seeds of greatness in every child, teaching them to achieve to their fullest potential so that they may be globally intelligent and resilient in our 21st Century world.
Dr. Steven Paine
PolicyPolicy 2510
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Definition of CurriculumThe content standards, objectives and performance descriptors for all required and elective content areas and 21st century learning skills and technology tools at each programmatic level
The West Virginia Standards for 21st Century Learning include 21st century content standards and objectives as well as 21st century standards and objectives for learning skills and technology tools. This broadened scope of curriculum is built on the firm belief that quality engaging instruction must be built on a curriculum that triangulates rigorous 21st century content, 21st century learning skills and the use of 21st century technology tools.
Policy 2520.14
The Rigor/Relevance Framework
AAcquisition
BApplication
CAssimilation
DAdaptation
KNOWLEDGE
TAXONOMY
6
5
4
3
2
1
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
UnderstandingAwareness
APPLICATION MODEL
1 2 3 4 5Knowledge Apply in
discipline
Apply acrossdisciplines
Apply toreal worldpredictable situations
Apply to real-worldunpredictable situations
Three Ways to Improve Student Learning
Raise the level of rigor in the content standards and objectives
Increase the skill and knowledge of teachers in teaching the content
Engage students in active learning designed around the standards for content, learning skills and technology tools.
What is so different about these Content Standards?
Depth of Knowledge
Level 1 – Recall, recognition. Skill a behavior or sequence of behaviors learned through practice and easily performed
Level 2 – Application of skills, concepts; conceptual understanding; procedural understanding
Level 3 – More sophisticated reasoning and analysis; students required to solve problems, draw conclusions given data, arguments, situations and other information; construct mental models translating among different representations; justifying from evidence; summarizing a body of text
Level 4 – Extended thinking; requires integration of knowledge from multiple sources and ability to represent knowledge in a variety of ways; usually requires work overa period of time
RELA CSO Comparison – Grade 4
Previous PolicyRLA.4.1.11 summarize the
author’s purpose (e.g., to persuade; to inform; to determine a specific viewpoint).
Revised Policy 07/01/08
RLA.O.4.1.09 determine author’s purposes in literary and informational texts and use supporting material to justify author’s intent: To persuade To entertain To inform To determine a specific
viewpoint
Science CSO Comparison – Grade
Former Policy
AB.4.31 investigate and discuss that the number of organisms any environment can support depends on the resources available
Revised Policy 07/01/08
SC.O.B.2.18 evaluate environmental factors that affect succession, populations and communities.
Mathematics CSO Comparison Grade 3
Previous Policy
MA.3.1.6compare and order fractions with like and unlike denominators using concrete models.
Revised PolicyM.O.3.1.6create concrete models
and pictorial representations to• compare and order
fractions with like and unlike denominators,
• add and subtract fractions with like denominators,
and verify results.
Where do we begin?
UNPACKING THE CONTENT STANDARDS
The UbD “Three-Circle Audit” Processhttp://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21
Curricular Priorities and Assessment Methods
Traditional quizzes
and tests (selected response)…….
Quizzes and tests
(constructed response)…….
Performance tasks and projects…
Performance tasks and projects
(complex, open-ended, authentic)……...
http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/
More About Objectives: Learning Targets
Power Standard Grade 3 Mathematics: The student will use symbolic representations to compare, order, add and subtract like denominators, and extend this knowledge to problem solve, and analyze real-world problems as they construct and organize data.
M.O.3.1.5 demonstrate an understanding of fractions as part of a whole/one and as part of a set/group using models and pictorial representationsM.O.3.1.6 create concrete models and pictorial representations to
Compare and order fractions with like and unlike denominators,Add and subtract fractions with like denominatorsand verify results
M.O.3.1.7 use concrete models and pictorial representations to demonstrate an understanding of equivalent fractions, proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbersM.O.3.5.1 collect and organize grade-appropriate real-world data from observation, surveys, and experiments, and identify and construct appropriate ways to display data.M.O.3.5.3 analyze real-world data represented on a graph using grade-appropriate questions.
Identifying Learning Targets
M.O.3.1.6 Create concrete models and pictorial representations to Compare and order fractions with like and unlike
denominators, Add and subtract fractions with like
denominators,and verify results.
Knowledge (2) Performance (8)Reasoning (10) Product (8)*See handout for detailed identification
The Academic Prompt
A structured performance task that elicits the student’s creation of a controlled performance or product.
These performances and products should align with criteria expressed in a scoring guide or rubric.
Successful prompts articulate a format, audience, topic/content focus, and purpose (FAT-P).
Example
Academic
Prompt
FAT-P
Planning to Take ActionThe citizens of Hacker Valley, West Virginia, are upset about how the state legislature is dealing with their pleading for a public water system to address the level of arsenic in ground water. With a partner create a chart, table, or timeline depicting previous actions and three actions your partner committee feels would be beneficial to prompt your delegate or senator to work to obtain the needed waterline. Share your findings with other committee groups. Discuss what actions have merit and which actions are not plausible at this time.
Example
Academic
Prompt
FAT-P
Balancing MobileYou are a sculptor and you have been hired to design a large metal mobile. This mobile will be made of flat triangular metal plates and is to be displayed in the town museum. Each triangular piece will hang so that it will be suspended with the triangular surface parallel to the floor. You are to construct a model using Geometer’s Sketchpad and experiment with the points, segments and triangles to look for solutions. From what point should each piece hang? Why would you want to find the center of a triangle? What is this point called?
Elements of an Effective Performance Task and Culminating Project
G=real-world goalsR=real-world role(s)A=real-world audienceS=real-world situationP=real-world products and performancesS=standards for acceptable performance
Example
Culminating
Assessment
GRASPS
Conic Sections Play a Fundamental Role in Space Science
You are an engineer employed by NASA. You have been asked by your former mathematics teacher to return to your alma mater and give a PowerPoint presentation to an Algebra II class on “How Conic Sections Play a Fundamental Role in Space Science.” In your presentation, you will include pictures and detailed examples of the mathematics used for each of the conics sections.
A Rubric
is based on a continuum of performance quality aligned with the WVCSO performance descriptors, built upon a scale of different possible score points to be assigned;
identifies the key traits or dimensions, as represented by the identified learning targets, to be examined and assessed; and
provides key features of performance for each level of scoring (descriptors) which signify the degree to which the criteria have been met.
What resources are currently available to assist classroom
teachers?
Pbl vs. projects
Projects PBL
Teacher directed Student driven
Single answer Open-ended
Summative On-going
Thematic Driving question/challenge
Fun Engaging
Answer giving Problem solving
School world Contextualized – Real world
Curricular add-on Curricular focus
Continuum of Practice
Civil Rights Exhibit Coming to America Constitutional Amendments Write On
21st Century Learning Skills21st Century Technology Tools
21st Century Learning MissionTo grow the seeds of greatness in every child, teaching them to achieve to their fullest potential so that they may be globally intelligent and resilient in our 21st Century world.
Dr. Steven Paine
What do you need from the Office of Instruction to assist you as you work with your teachers to achieve our 21st Century learning mission?