Curriculum and Assessment

We must step away from This idea of "common knowledge"

WE NEED STANDARDS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO ADOLESCENTS!

Standards and Curriculum

Excellence and Equity

Excellence and Equity

• critical thinking
• problem solving
• self discipline, dependability
• flexibility, reflectiveness
• and perseverance

all students can meet or exceed high standards - and will receive the support they need to do so

Setting and adapting standards

setting and adapting

• concerned with the essential ideas
• useful and clear
• rigorous accurate and sound
• brief
• feasible, taken together

Setting and adapting

• assessable
• developmental
• selected and modified by consensus
• adaptable and flexible

"Place Based"
curriculum that connects community

Tayloring Mandated Standards

Comparing and selecting standards

adapt standards to fit specific needs of schools

creating curriculum based on standards

focused on what students should learn

Disciplinary and integrated curriculum

Thematic learning

Resources to support curriculum

Teach beyond the textbook

Assessment: the midpoint of backward design

Ongoing useful feedback

Assessment connection to curriculum based on standards

Students should KNOW the standard expected from them

Using a variety of assessment methods

informal checks, traditional quizzes, interviews, performance

focus on authentic assessment

skills and tasks

Rubrics

set of criteria

Portfolios

ongoing progress

Conclusion

Conclusion