2. 2
Norms
• Be constructively engaged.
• Share your best thinking.
• Listen actively. Assume positive intent.
• Model the attitude of a life-long
learner.
• Take care of your needs.
Enjoy the Day!
3. 3
Today’s Goals
• Teachers will
examine critical features and enhancements of
the HISD curriculum documents.
use the HISD curriculum to identify assessment
FOR learning opportunities (formative
assessments) and discuss effective use in their
classrooms.
use the enhanced HISD Curriculum documents to
plan effective and aligned instruction to meet
diverse student needs.
4. 4
Graphic Organizer for
Personal Goal Setting and
Feedback
In the pre-assessment column, rate your current
level of understanding regarding the purpose
and use of HAPG components using 1 – 4 scale:
1. No knowledge of this or its use
2. Heard of it but don’t know much about it
3. Familiar with this and use it from time to time
4. Very familiar with this component and use it
frequently for planning and instruction
5. Goal Setting
• Reflect on the Graphic Organizer
• Use Think-Pair-Share to share at least
one personal strength and one growth
opportunity related to the HISD
Curriculum.
• Based on your reflection, write at least
one learning goal for your work today.
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6. Recording Data
Category
My current understanding
of the purpose of this
component
My understanding at the
end of the day of this
component
Learning Focus
Key Concepts/Key Skills
ELPS/CSLAEKS
LLTW strategies
Essential Understandings
Guiding Questions
Power Objectives
Formative Assessments
Technology Enhancements
and Resources
Renzulli Learning
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10. Enhanced Components
For 2009-2010
• Key Concepts/Key Skills
• ELPS
• Formative Assessments
• Essential Understandings
• Guiding Questions
• Literacy Leads the Way Strategies
• Renzulli Learning
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11. Key Concepts / Key Skills
• Concepts share common attributes,
and are timeless, universal, abstract,
and broad.
• Skills represent processes that increase
the ability to use knowledge effectively
and to apply learning in everyday life.
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ELPS Correlation Practice
• Choose an objective from the HAPG with
an ELPS correlation.
• Read the instructional considerations and
strategies columns.
• Using the ELPS handout, identify other ELPS
objectives that might connect to this HISD
objective.
• Use a Think-Aloud to explain your reasoning.
18. Formative Assessments
Formative assessments represent an
ongoing process in which teachers use
multiple examples of student work to:
monitor and adjust instruction
provide feedback for students
measure the extent to which
students have made progress
toward a learning target
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Essential Understandings
EUs contain two or more concepts stated
as a relationship that transfers to other
situations, through time and across
cultures.
EUs reflect the deeper understandings
associated with specific factual content.
EUs can be tested against and
supported by facts.
22. Guiding Questions
Guiding questions engage student
thinking at the analysis level or higher
and facilitate students’ thinking towards
the Essential Understandings.
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24. 24
Literacy Leads the Way
10 Best Practice Strategies
Same across all content areas for student
mastery
Aligned to Marzano’s categories
Linked to Literacy Leads the Way flipchart
with ELL accommodations
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Literacy Leads the Way
10 Best Practice Strategies
KWL
Think-Pair-Share
Frayer Model
Summary Frames
Two-Column Notes
Rubrics
Think-Aloud
RAFT
Anticipation
Guide
Graphic
Organizers
33. Research behind Formative
Assessments:
Research indicates that formative assess-
ment can significantly improve student
learning. Yet this same research shows that
the features of formative assessment that
affect student achievement are missing
from many classrooms (Black et al., 2003).
Black, P., C. Harrison, C. Lee, B. Marshall, and D. Wiliam.
Assessment for Learning. New York: Open Univ. Press, 2003.
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Summary Frame
• The purpose of Formative Assessment
(Assessment FOR Learning) is to
_______.
The purpose of Summative Assessment
(Assessment OF Learning) is to _______.
• Formative and Summative Assessment
are alike in that they both _______.
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Lesson Planning
Work in content
and/or grade level
groups to begin
planning one lesson
using the HAPG and
the GANAG planning
template.
Display ideas on
chart paper for a
Gallery Walk
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Graphic Organizer for
Personal Goal Setting and
Feedback
In the Post-assessment column, rate your current
level of understanding regarding the purpose and
use of HAPG components using 1 – 4 scale:
1. No knowledge of this or its use
2. Heard of it but don’t know much about it
3. Familiar with this and use it from time to time
4. Very familiar with this component and use it
frequently for planning and instruction
