Standard-Based Curriculum

Principles of essential schools include

-Using the mind with a focus on essential learning goals -An attempt to apply these goals to all students -Personalized teaching and learning -Student performance on real tasks with multiple forms of evidence

Success for All

-Was developed around the core assumption that every child can read -Structured approach to the curriculum and support for children -Includes specific reading books, use of reading tutors, and 8-week reading assessments -Teachers use prescribed strategy

School Development Program

-research based education reform program grounded in the principles of child, adolescent, and adult development -teams guided by 3 principles: decision making, problem solving, and collaboration -creation of an environment that promotes the adult-student interactions necessary for good student development and academic learning in school

Essential Schools

-students need to master a common core of info and skills -promotes a vision of schooling where students engage in in-depth and rigorous learning

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

A set of standards that describe knowledge and skills that students need for success in college and careers.

True or False

Academic standards vary state to state-TRUE

school improvement process (SIP)

An approach for gradual improvement of school curricula Team of Principal, teachers, team Leads,department chairs, and parents Holds meetings to determine how well students are performing They identify specific targets that everyone will work on in the next year

Summative Assessment (for and of learning)

Assessment data collected after instruction to evaluate a student's mastery of the curriculum objectives and a teacher's effectiveness at instructional delivery.(at the end of instruction-ie finals, standardized tests, tests which determines who moves fwd)

Common core debates and concerns

Available to all states but adoption is voluntary. If states seek NCLB waivers they have to either develop their own standards or adopt CCSS. Standards will expand until they become a national curriculum.

standards that most states are aligning to show what students should know

Common core

School reform

Comprehensive programs to bring about school-wide changes in curriculum and instruction. The intention is to increase learning outcomes for all students.

Types of Assessment Measures

Diagnostic Norm-referenced Criterion-referenced Capstone/summative

List the many things implied in education

Evaluation, grades, tests, performances, reflection, criteria, rubrics, and more.

TRUE or FALSE: All states must adopt the Common Core State Standards

False

True or False: The US has a single national curriculum where education is centralized at the national level

False

True or False: "Academic content standards" and "curriculum guides" are interchangeable terms

False (see chap 5)

Rubric

Given specific requirements and then graded by those requirements

TRUE or FALSE: The intent of the Common Core State Standards is to develop standard that focus on what is most essential and to make standards that are learning-centered

TRUE

Professional Learning Communities

Teams of teachers who work together to improve student learning by developing common goals, finding ways to meet goals, implement different approaches and collect data to see if they have met their goals

Diagnostic Tests

Tests of specific skills used to identify students' needs and to guide instruction. Used to find out what the student is struggling with, looking for discrepancy

True/False

The creation of academic standards in response to A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is an example of a national influence on curriculum TRUE

STEM

The focus is on developing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum

Purpose of Assessment

The ultimate purpose of assessment is to help students learn by using formative assessment and summative assessment

The School Development Program is

a research-based, comprehensive K-12 education reform program grounded in the principles of child, adolescent, and adult development

Norm-referenced

a test that compares a student's performance against a group of other students in the similar circumstance

Authentic Assessment

a testing procedure that focuses on the process used in solving complex, real-life problems rather than the product that results from the process i.e. student projects, observations, interviews, folios and portfolio, learning logs and journals

What is assessment?

evaluation grades, tests performances, reflection, criteria, rubrics and more, critiquing what has been learned and what is observed, connects to standards what students should know, be able to do, and used to evaluate teachers and principals

Academic content standards refer to:

formal statements of what students know and should be able to do in each of the content areas at various points in their P-12 education

Criterion testing

only specific level of performance is defined, only important issue is meeting this standard, testing against criteria

Capstone/Summative culminating assessment

test of culmination of what the students know

Describe Common Core Standards

the Common Core State Standards provide clear and consistent learning goals to help prepare students for college, career, and life. The standards clearly demonstrate what students are expected to learn at each grade level, so that every parent and teacher can understand and support their learning. - Research and evidence based - Clear, understandable, and consistent - Aligned with college and career expectations - Based on rigorous content and the application of knowledge through higher-order thinking skills -Built upon the strengths and lessons of current state standards -Informed by other top-performing countries to prepare all students for success in our global economy and society

Intent

to develop standards that focus on what is most essential to make standards that are learning-centered (focusing directly on student learning , rather than on what teachers do.) Focus explicitly on the expectations for student learning

Formative Assessment (for learning)

ungraded testing used before or during instruction to aid in planning and diagnosis i.e. essays, projects, and portfolios

Connection to Standards

what students should know, be able to do, and used to evaluate teachers and principals