| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | UNPACKING STANDARDS | Alignment....Use the Standards to Guide: Curriculum, Instruction, Assessment | Steps to Prioritizing Standards |
2 | What does it mean to unpack standards? | What do we expect our students to know? | Step 1: Make initial selections using criteria below. |
3 | Analyze language & Extract Clues | Tier 1 - Learning Targets! | |
4 | Essential Knowledge- Nouns! | How will we know they are learning? | Step 2: Look for connections to state tests. Make revisions as needed. |
5 | -facts students need to know to master the standards | Tier 1 Formative & Summative Assessments! | |
6 | Essential Skills - Verbs! | How will we respond when students don't know it? | Step 3: Chart selections for each grade in grade-level sheet |
7 | -exercising and practicing new facets of knowledge | MTSS - Tier 1 - Reteaching! MTSS - Tier 2 Intervention | |
8 | Steps to Unpack Standards | How will we respond when students already know it? | Step 4: Vertically align Priority Standards by discussing & reaching consensus. |
9 | 1. Read the standards as a team | MTSS - Tier 1 - Extension! | |
10 | 2. Highlight or circle the verbs | Next Steps.... | Priority Standard Selection Criteria |
11 | 3. Highlight or underline the nouns and noun phrases | Determine Essential Standards or Priority Standards | |
12 | 4. Determine the number of learning targets found within each standard | Remember, the standards we have determined as essential are the ones we are going to spend the bulk of our time pre-assessing, teaching, assessing, re-teaching and reassessing. These are the standards we can’t imagine our students leaving our course of study or grade level without mastering. | Endurance (lasting beyond one grade or course; concepts and skills needed in life) |
13 | 5. Add a row (right click or command click- insert row) under the standard and write each as separate learning targets | Prioritization not Elimination | Leverage (crossover applications within the content area and to other content areas; i.e., interdisciplinary connections) |
14 | 6. Pull the academic vocabulary from the standard - this can be added in another column (right click or command click- insert column right or left) | Prioritization does not mean elimination. The other standards will still be taught. They are good to know, but a student could still progress to the next grade or course without mastering them at a high level. | Readiness for next level of learning (prerequisite concepts and skills students need to enter a new grade level or course of study) |
15 | Central Rivers AEA Learning Progressions | Achieve the Core - Suggested prioritized standards |