The Standards Driven Classroom
- 1. It is a classroom where teachers and students have a clear understanding of the expectations (standards). They know what they are teaching/learning each day (standards). They know why the day’s learning is an important thing to know or know how to do (relevance), and how to do it (process). STANDARDS BASED LEARNING IS A PROCESS, NOT AN EVENT
- 2. Students have a right to understand the expectations they are to meet, and teachers have a right to understand the parameters within which their instruction takes place. ~Douglas Reeves, President of the Center for Performance Assessment
- 3. In a Standards Based Classroom… Curriculum, Assessment, Instruction and Student Learning are explicitly aligned to the standards. All students have access to the standards. Students produce evidence of learning.
- 4. How do teachers know that work provides evidence of learning? Analysis of student work Ongoing Collaborative Consensus-driven Anchor papers A sample of student work that exemplifies a specific level of performance. Raters use anchors to score student work, usually comparing the student performance to the anchor. For example, if student work was being scored on a scale of 1-5, there would typically be anchors (previously scored student work), exemplifying each point on the scale.
- 5. Utilize collaborative planning time to analyze student work based on standards Utilize collaborative planning time to build consensus regarding standards for each grade level Utilize collaborative planning time to develop units, lessons and performance tasks that demand rigor and hold high expectations for all students
- 6. Review of Standards Driven Classroom Checklist and Behavioral Terms for Writing Objectives
- 7. Problem categories, behaviors, and consequences Serious School Violations Progressive Discipline for Cutting Progressive Discipline for Lateness