Power Standards: Focusing on the Essential - 0 views
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Very often, teachers operate under the assumption that all standards are equally important and that they have to ensure that students are taught all of the standards with the same level of intensity each year.
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The danger of delivering standards that are an inch deep and a mile wide is that students will inevitably leave a grade level or course with gaps in their learning.
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prioritize certain standards and performance indicators, rather than giving each of them an equal amount of attention in the curriculum and on assessments.
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requires teachers to look at the standards vertically. This vertical alignment allows teachers to identify important prerequisite skills students need
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aligned, purposeful, and essential in identifying those students in need of intervention, remediation, or enrichment.
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If a collaborative approach to prioritizing standards is not used, then teachers are forced to choose what they feel is essential. Often those decisions are based on a teacher’s comfort level, availability of resources, or personal preferences. This approach does not give all students access to a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
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“those standards that, once mastered, give a student the ability to use reasoning and thinking skills to learn and understand other curriculum objectives.”
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support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
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students will need to read informational texts proficiently and substantiate their claims using evidence from the text when reading, writing, and speaking
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think of a triple Venn Diagram, and that for the overall success of students each circle in that Venn Diagram has equal importance
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If every teacher in the grade level or course is emphasizing something different, you do not have a guaranteed curriculum for students.