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01 Building on Standards

This diagram illustrates the foundation essential for having data-driven conversations with yourself and among your Professional Learning Team. This foundation provides the common vocabulary, resources, and workflows essential for your conversations.

Standards Task (1 of 14) - Time: 15 minutes

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Instructions

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Engaging Questions

  • Consider the validity of the following statement:

    It is essential for one to continue to move forward in the continuous improvement of learning. If we are doing the same thing each year, are we standing still? If we are standing still, with the demands of No Child Left Behind we are simply falling behind. This is due to the fact the NCLB expectations are higher each year on what a learner should be able to truly learn.
  • It is one thing to look at one's standards. It may be another thing all together to understand how those standards are addressed:
    • In state-mandated assessments.
    • By performance levels.
    • In the Bloom's related Depth of Knowledge.
    • By essential vocabulary for learners and professional conversations.
    • In the use and creation of quality assessment items.
    In what other ways of engaging our standards may we need to consider?

Teacher Goals

  • As an educator within your PLC, you can converse about the elements of the foundation essential for engaging your standards and those of your team members.

Required Resources

  • The Building on Standards illustrates the various resources essential to having grounded conversations about your standards and those affecting your entire Professional Learning Community.

Steps

  1. Add to PLC Guide

    This diagram creates a framework for you to understand how the standards-related pieces come together. The diagram needs to be readily available in your PLC Guide for periodic review.

    To print the diagram:
    1. Click on the Building on Standards link below.
    2. Print the diagram.
    3. Add the diagram to your PLC Guide.
    Note: If you have already included the Building on Standards diagram in your PLC Guide, review the linked diagram below with the one in your Guide. If there have been changes, replace it with this newer version.
  2. Reflection

    Periodically review and reflect on the Building on Standards diagram. Doing so will help reinforce how the Standards-related tasks are related to each other.
  3. Sharing Level of Understanding

    After reflecting on the diagram depicting the essential elements, please share your level of understanding of these elements. This will help your PLC Facilitators to better help you and others move forward.

    Do this in your task window's Your Comments box. Be sure to click the Save Your Comments button when finished.

Teacher Notes

  • You may want to consider printing a second copy of the diagram and put it on a wall, your desk, or in your gradebook or lesson plan book. This could provide a continual reminder of the "what, why, where, and how" of your movement forward with standards.

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