Middle Grades Collaborative Conversations

How To Plan Units, Lessons, and Assessments Using the Learning-Focused Framework: Focus on Essential Questions

SAMS: Wednesday, September 9, 2009NAMS: Thursday, September 10, 2009

Materials Needed:

ACS Curriculum Guide(s) (Wiki)CTE Blueprint(s)NC SCOS (Art, Music, Health, PE)21st Century Skills Handout (Wiki)Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Handout (Wiki)KUD Template (Wiki)Student Learning Map Template (Wiki)

www.acsacre.wikispaces.com

Brainstorm

Essential Questions

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A Fundamental Truth by Dr. Lorin Anderson:

We don’t see the world as it is; we see

the world through the lens through

which we look at it.

1. What do we want students to

know, understand and be able to do?

Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

2. How will we deliver quality instruction so

students learn at a high level?

Instruction

3. How will we know if students

have learned what we want them to know,

understand and be able to do?

Assessment

1. What do we want students to

know, understand and be able to do?

Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

2. How will we deliver quality instruction so

students learn at a high level?

Instruction

3. How will we know if students

have learned what we want them to know,

understand and be able to do?

Assessment

Essential Standards•Prioritized and focused•Aligned with 21st C. skills•Integrated•Chosen for endurance, readiness and leverage•Driven by Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy•Measurable and concise

•Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano)•Literacy across the curriculum•21st Century Skills•Project and Problem-Based Learning•Learning Centered Environment•Differentiation

Collaborative Planning

Collaborative Planning

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Benchmark

Formative

1. What do we want students to

know, understand and be able to do?

Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum

2. How will we deliver quality instruction so

students learn at a high level?

Instruction

3. How will we know if students

have learned what we want them to know,

understand and be able to do?

Assessment

Essential Standards•Prioritized and focused•Aligned with 21st C. skills•Integrated•Chosen for endurance, readiness and leverage•Driven by Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy•Measurable and concise

•Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano)•Literacy across the curriculum•21st Century Skills•Project and Problem-Based Learning•Learning Centered Environment•Differentiation

Core for All

Students

Collaborative Planning

Collaborative Planning

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Benchmark

Formative

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

4. How will we respond when students do not learn? What will we do for students who have already learned or have learned more?

Pyramid ofIntervention

Progress Monitoring

NC’s New Lens: RBT

BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY

CreatingCreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things

Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

EvaluatingEvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of action

Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging

AnalyzingAnalyzingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

ApplyingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executing

UnderstandingUnderstanding

Explaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

RememberingRemembering

Recalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

21st Century Skills

• http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=120

Student Learning Map

Key Learning: ESSENTIAL STANDARD(S)

Unit Essential Question(s): ESSENTIAL STANDARD EQ(s)

Concept/Skill/Topic:

Vocabulary

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Concept/Skill/Topic: Concept/Skill/Topic:

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Lesson Essential Question(s):

VocabularyVocabulary

CLARIFYING OBJ CLARIFYING OBJCLARIFYING OBJ

CLARIFYING EQs CLARIFYING EQsCLARIFYING EQs

Know – Understand- DoA tool to drive planning, instruction, and assessment

Know Understand DoClarifying Objectives(Skills/Topics/Concepts)

Essential Standards/Essential Questions

(Big Ideas/Generalizations)

Assessments(When you know that students have mastered what you want them to know and understand.)

Think about “Know” this way:Knowing is binary. You either know it or

you don’t!

Think about “Understand” this way:I want my students to understand that…

_____

Think about “Do” this way:“Do” always has students

performing/applying a skill. Therefore, “Do” will always start with a verb!

(Modified from Unlocking the Secrets of the L-F Strategies Model V.7)

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions

Teaching the answers without first

raising the questions takes most

of the meaning out of learning.

~Francis Slater, London School of Education

What is an essential question?

Sample EQ: What is yourWhat is your explanation for how to explanation for how to evaluateevaluate whether or not a whether or not a question meets the criteria for question meets the criteria for being an essential question?being an essential question?

What is your explanation for how to evaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

21st Century Skill: Communication & Collaboration• Communicate Clearly - use communication for a

range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)

What is your explanationexplanation for how to evaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

21st Century Skill: Communication & Collaboration• Communicate Clearly - use communication for a

range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)

What is your explanation for how to evaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: Analysis and Evaluation

What is your explanation for how to evaluateevaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: Analysis and Evaluation

What is your explanationexplanation for how to evaluateevaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

21st Century Skill: Communication & Collaboration• Communicate Clearly - use communication for a

range of purposes (e.g. to inform, instruct, motivate and persuade)

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy: analysis and evaluation

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions-qualitiesqualities• Cause inquiry into core content (Essential Standards)• Do not have one “right” answer (21st Century Skills, Revised

Bloom’s Taxonomy)• Are arguable, provokes deep thought, discussion,

inquiry (21st Century Skills)• Promote understanding (Essential Standards, 21st Century Skills,

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)• Require students to consider alternatives, weigh

evidence, support ideas, and justify answers (21st Century Skills)

• Spark meaningful connections with prior learning (Essential Standards, 21st Century Skills, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Learning-Focused Framework, Understanding by Design,Wiggins & McTighe, What Works in Schools, Robert Marzano

Essential Questions & Student Learning

• Alignment with Essential Standards, 21st Century Skills, and RBT

• Focus instruction• Goal setting• Assessment• Guide future plan of action

Know Understand Do

Clarifying Objectives(Skills/Topics/Concepts)

Essential Standards/Essential Questions(Big Ideas/Generalizations)

What is your explanation for how to evaluate whether or not a question

meets the criteria for being an essential question?

Assessments(When you know that students have mastered what you

want them to know and understand.)

Teachers will develop EQs that are reflective of Essential Standards, 21st

Century Skills, and RBT.

Think about “Know” this way:Knowing is binary. You either know it or you don’t!

Think about “Understand” this way:I want my students to understand that…_____

Think about “Do” this way:“Do” always has students performing/applying a skill.

Therefore, “Do” will always start with a verb!

Know – Understand- DoA tool to drive planning, instruction, and assessment(Modified from Unlocking the Secrets of the L-F Strategies Model V.7)

Key Learning: Developing Essential Questions that reflect Essential Standards and incorporate 21 st Century Skills and Revised Bloom’s TaxonomyUnit Essential Question: What is your explanation for how to evaluate whether or not a question meets the criteria for being an essential question?

Concept/Topic/Skill: Concept/Topic/Skill: Concept/Topic/Skill: Concept/Topic/Skill:

Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s):

Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary:

Student Learning Map Name:

Subject:

Grading Period:

Essential Questions: Application

• Develop Essential Questions for your content area that are reflective of Essential Standards, 21st Century Skills, and RBT.

– Resources: » Curriculum Guide/SCOS/CTE Blueprint » 21st Century Skills» RBT» KUD » Student Learning Map

Reflections: Ticket Out The Door

3 – three things needed for an essential question

2 – two ways essential questions impact student learning

1 – one question I still have