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Standards-based teaching
Lisa Carbón wrote an article for the Perspective in November 2002 that
listed the steps to moving towards standards-based instruction. They are reprinted
below.
10 Steps to Standards-Based Planning
By Lisa Carbón, Teaching and Learning Systems
- IDENTIFY STANDARD(S)
- Become familiar with the district and state standards that apply to your classroom
and school.
- Set high standards that determine what all students need to know and be able
to do.
- Prioritize the standards. Start with those that meet the criteria of endurance,
leverage, and readiness for the next level of learning.
- IDENTIFY CRITICAL SKILLS AND CONTENT IN THE STANDARD
- This step is necessary if you are not as familiar with the district and state
standards as you would like to be.
- Identify critical skills by underlining important verbs.
- Identify critical content by circling important nouns.
- Create a useful graphic organizer using the nouns/content and verbs/skills.
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IDENTIFY CULMINATING ACTIVITY AND/OR ASSESSMENT
- Plan how students will demonstrate mastery of the standards and communicate
this to students.
- How will I know if a standard has been met?
- A culminating task/activity (good for unit plans) is an engaging real-world
activity that embodies all the learned standards and gives students a reason to
achieve them.
- Develop assessments for each separate chunk of instruction and build toward
mastery of the standard(s) selected.
- IDENTIFY THE BIG IDEA(S)
- No more than 4 Big Ideas.
- What is the main idea I want the students to know, with the benefit?
- The Big Idea is the “road map” for planning instruction.
- “Big Ideas” are the key generalizations, “Big Picture”
Concepts, Enduring Understandings
- Keep them simple for kids to understand.
- IDENTIFY ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)
- Grabs and seeks student’s desire and attention to be able to answer
the Big Idea.
- Make sure it is kid-friendly.
- Write Essential Questions you want students to deeply understand and be able
to apply in different contexts and across time and cultures.
- The Essential Questions are what I have told the students they will learn.
If the lesson does not align, then make necessary adjustments or do not teach
the lesson.
- IDENTIFY CONTENT AREA(S)
- You can select standards from one or more content areas for a single unit.
- Divide standards-driven units into learning sections. Always keep standards
in mind.
- Make connections to standards only when working on these standards together
will help students understand better than would studying the standards separately.
- IDENTIFY ACTIVITIES/LESSONS
- Design instruction that will lead to mastery of the standards.
- Decide what activities students will complete, what instruction is necessary
to support each activity, and how you will assess learning.
- Always ask the question, “How will this activity help students meet
the standards?”
- If the activity does not align to the standards, it needs to go. “Weed
the garden” –Doug Reeves
- CREATE SCORING GUIDE(S)
- Students know a head of time what is expected and what they need to do to
be successful.
- De-mystify the grading process.
- Ask students, “What would ‘proficient’ look like?”
- Contains specific language understood by all: students, teachers, and parents.
- Specificity is critical!
- Clearly linked to tasks/activities and standards.
- Scoring Guide and task requirements fit “hand to glove.”
- Exemplary products attached.
- Created through several drafts.
- Teacher-guided, student-generated.
- COLLABORATION
- Collaborate with colleagues to begin the process of standards-based planning.
- Collaborate with colleagues as you begin working with/designing performance
assessments and scoring guides.
- Doug Reeves states, “Merely decorating rooms with colorful posters of
standards from the state department is a futile exercise. The impact of standards
can only occur when teachers collaborate and reach a consensus on the meaning
of standards and proficiency.”
- PLAN-DO-STUDY-ACT (P.D.S.A.)
- How did the lesson, activities, and assessment go?
- Do all of the activities support students reaching the standard?
- “How will this impact our ability to prepare students to meet the standards?”
- Do you consistently model and expect all students to demonstrate high level
skills (as well as critical thinking skills), be active learners, and be held
to high standard.
For more information on the implementation of standards in Albuquerque Public
Schools, please contact Lisa Carbón
or 880-8249, ext. 133.
Listed below are general lesson plan archives that allow you to search by content
standards.
- APS
Curriculum Resources
- link curriculum resources to APS standards at all grade levels and all content
areas.
- PBS TeacherSource.
- lesson plans to match many PBS shows.
- Cable in the Classroom.
- searchable database for many Cable TV shows.
- Search MarcoPolo,
database.
- The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to educational resources created
by MarcoPolo Partners (listed separately below).
- AOL@School
- NM educational standards aligned to AOL@SCHOOL lesson plans and resources.
- Scholastic
- This site, recently launched, plans to allow you to locate lesson plans specifically
correlated to your state standards. You will have to register (free). As of October
2002, there were no curriculum resources in the database.
Specific links
- Science NetLinks.
- links to science topics by grade and content standard, from AAAS.
- Arts
Edge.
- variety of art lessons from the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
- EconEd Link.
- from the National Council of Economics Education.
- EdSitement.
- from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bring online educational resources
from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and
universities directly to your classroom.
- Illuminations,
from NCTM.
- activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the 9-12 grade
level for use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement Standards-based mathematics
education in their classrooms
- Read Write Think, from the National
Reading Association.
- lessons in reading and language arts.
- Xpeditions,
from National Geographic.
- categorized by standard and grade level.
last updated
Sunday, August 19, 2007
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