Office of Standards Based Instruction - Overview
- 1. Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative Office of Standards-Based Instruction Sharon L. Ransom, Chief Officer
- 2. Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative Identify and Plan Assessments How will I know if students are learning? What will they need to do to show mastery? What products will I collect? Standards-Based Instruction What learning activities must I provide to ensure that all students show mastery? Collect and Analyze Evidence of Student Mastery Are the students learning? What have they mastered? What do I need to reteach? Standards-Based Curriculum What do students need to know and be able to do? What do students need to learn?
- 4. Illinois Learning Standards • Illinois Learning Standards are the same throughout Grades 1 – 12. • Learning Benchmarks are indicated by developmental level. • The Performance Descriptors help teachers align their curricula to the standards at each grade level.
- 5. Illinois State Goals Broad statements of knowledge and/or skills that organize the subject matter of a learning area. Illinois Learning Standards Specific statements of knowledge and/or skills within a goal. The standards define the learning needed to reach the goal. They represent the result of schooling and, as such, they are exit standards. KEY TERMS
- 6. Learning Benchmarks Learning Benchmarks are progress indicators for gauging students’ achievement of each standard. They form the basis for measuring achievement over time. Performance Descriptors Performance Descriptors are a supplement to – not a replacement for – Illinois Learning Standards. They are intended to help teachers align their curricula to the standards and help students meet performance expectations at 10 stages of educational development. KEY TERMS
- 7. Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative Identify and Plan Assessments How will I know if students are learning? What will they need to do to show mastery? What products will I collect? Standards-Based Instruction What learning activities must I provide to ensure that all students show mastery? Collect and Analyze Evidence of Student Mastery Are the students learning? What have they mastered? What do I need to reteach? Standards-Based Curriculum What do students need to know and be able to do? What do students need to learn?
- 8. Selecting Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Descriptors Phase I • Essential Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Descriptors • Mapping your Grade Level Plans
- 9. Phase II Moving from Standards and Benchmarks to determining Evidence of Student Mastery • What does mastery look like at this grade level? • What are the performance tasks? • What are the performance criteria for mastery? • How do I communicate this to my students?
- 10. Phase III Designing Instruction • Common Focus Skills • Common Instructional Strategies • Common Learning Activities • Differentiating Instruction • Flexible Grouping • Instruction that includes multiple levels of understanding
- 11. Phase IV Analyzing Classroom Assessment Data: What can the data tell us? • Analyzing student work, products, and performances for evidence of mastery • Analyzing individual student, classroom, and grade-level performance to inform instruction • Communicating results to students and parents
- 12. NOW THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! • It changes the goal of my instruction. • It changes my expectations of students. • It changes how I plan instruction. • It changes how I measure students’ progress toward mastery of content area knowledge and skills. • It changes what I do with assessment results. • It changes how I communicate expectations to students.
- 13. Chicago Public Schools Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative Identify and Plan Assessments How will I know if students are learning? What will they need to do to show mastery? What products will I collect? Standards-Based Instruction What learning activities must I provide to ensure that all students show mastery? Collect and Analyze Evidence of Student Mastery Are the students learning? What have they mastered? What do I need to reteach? Standards-Based Curriculum What do students need to know and be able to do? What do students need to learn?
Editor's Notes
- #3: The CPS Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative has developed a process that will better align CPS with the Illinois Learning Standards and assessments. The primary goal of this initiative is to ensure high quality standards-based instruction for all students. Instructional coherence across the district will support the academic success of students within and across schools. Another goal of this initiative is to support the development of learning communities where teachers are engaged in supporting all students in meeting the standards. In grade level teams, teachers select Illinois Learning Standards and Benchmarks that will focus their instruction. Teachers next determine what students will have to do to show mastery. Teachers within and across grade and content areas collaboratively plan learning opportunities that will lead to the mastery of the standards. Together teachers and students analyze the student’s own work in order to give feedback to students and plan for future instruction.
- #4: The CPS Standards-Based Curriculum Initiative supports teachers in aligning all curricula to the Illinois Learning Standards.
- #8: Utilizing the Illinois Learning Standards teachers engage in this process
- #9: Refer to CD rom Refer to 1st 3 columns of the Quarterly Planning Map