Vertical Alignment Meeting
- 1. V E R T ALIGNMENT I C A L Januar y 6, 2014
- 2. OBJECTIVES Identify and articulate gaps in current VCS content standards Update standards & benchmarks as appropriate Articulate current biblical integration practices
- 3. VERTICAL ALIGNMENT TASKS Discuss the common vocabulary. Identify & close current gaps in content standards between grade levels/courses. Using current California Content Standards, Common Core Standards & other standards, identify/solidify VCS Content Standards. Identify Benchmark Standards. Biblical Integration: Discuss what you have done. What you are currently doing? How you have or are implementing the Transformational Trilogies?
- 4. VOCABULARY Content Standards: Define the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level. (VCS regards these as the minimum standards per grade level.) Curriculum: Your course content. Objectives: A specific result or results you aim to achieve within a specific time frame or lesson.
- 5. Pre-assessment—An assessment that takes place prior to a unit of study to understand prior student learning and to help direct instruction. Formative—formal or informal assessments given during the instructional process in order to modify instruction and activities to reach student achievement. Summative—formal assessment at the end of a specific learning experience…chapter, unit, semester A S S E S S M E N T S
- 6. Benchmarks--Educational benchmarks are specific points of reference related to levels of performance or outcomes against which students are monitored or measured. Vertical Alignment—Discussing and assessing the continuity of curriculum K-12. A S S E S S M E N T S
- 7. EXPECTED OUTCOMES/DELIVERABLES Articulate the gaps between grade levels and how/who will close those gaps. Identify/solidify & articulate VCS Content Standards. Identify & articulate benchmarks at each grade/course level. Articulate a plan for consistent, ongoing biblical integration in each classroom.
- 8. LINKS Common Core Standards - Google Folder CA State Standards – Google Folder Benchmark Assessments 2012-2014 – Google Folder
- 9. BIBLE -- ANNE DELKE (ROOM) MATH--CATHY GENGL (ROOM) SCIENCE --LEISA MOORE (ROOM) SOCIAL STUDIES --LINDSAY MARSHALL (ROOM) LANGUAGE ARTS -- AL EXIS SCHNEIDER (ROOM) WRITING --KRISTEN CUNNINGHAM (ROOM) COMMUNICATIONS --LIZ FENWICK (ROOM) APPLIED TECH/COMP. --JEREMY C. (ROOM) WORLD LANGUAGES--M ARY RILEY (ROOM) STUDENT SUPPORT--DIANA FAIRCHILD (ROOM) DANCE/THEATRE – MATTHEW DEMERITT (OFF CAMPUS) MUSIC– JEFF WILSON (OFF CAMPUS) VISUAL ARTS - JILL CARLSON (OFF CAMPUS) F A C I L I T A T O R S
Editor's Notes
- #4: Choose standards the correspond to our ESLRs