Post on 19-Jan-2016
Iowa CoreAlignment Session 3
ImplementationJanuary 2011
Sue UpdegraffKeystone AEA
Preparing for INITIAL Alignment
First Pass
by July 1, 2012
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Purpose: Enacted to Intended
Independent Reflection
One Course/Subject/Grade to one skill set = 90 minutes
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Background Information for Teachers
Multi-Pass Experiences with Essential Concepts/Skills
Curriculum Terms
Alignment Terms and Chart
District Curriculum Framework/Schema
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Outcome 4 of the PLAN
“District leaders and teachers monitor and use data to increase the degree of alignment of each and every student’s enacted curriculum to the Iowa CORE (intended).”
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Not evaluative or judgmental
Collective effort needed
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Future PassesContent depth
o cognitive complexityo emphasis
Assessment
Instruction/Strategies
Resources7
First PassEnacted (taught) to
intended (Iowa CORE)
Horizontal
Topical
Fine-grained
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Process for First Pass1. Review Background
Information
2. Identify Skill Set(s) for Reflection
3. Identify Support Documents (enacted diary, lesson plan, etc.)
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Process for First Pass4. Basics of Coding
determining extent of current agreement between enacted and intended (agreement vs. align)
“Did I teach this?”
document what actually happened, not what was “suppose” to happen
no extra points for high agreement
professionalism
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Process for First Pass
5. Key Alignment Question
What did students get the opportunity to learn during the school year?
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Guidelines1. Sameness
one-to-one correspondencedig into each line of Iowa
COREexplicitly covered
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Guidelines2. No squinting (thinking really
hard)
3. Time limit (short)
4. Simple yes or no about whether students “had the opportunity to learn”
5. Follow “Cheat Sheet”13
Tutorialand
Demonstration
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Engage in Coding
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What Happens After First Pass?
Collect and Analyze Data of Measured Alignment/Agreement
Decisions/Plan based on Datagapsoverlaps
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Database of Coverage
Action through PLCs
Pedagogy, assessment and related issues in future
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PLC Plan
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