Why & How of Pacing Guides
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The document discusses the importance of pacing guides in education, highlighting their role in clarifying essential standards, providing focus for instruction, and guiding classroom assessments. It emphasizes that effective pacing guides can help avoid curriculum chaos and maximize student achievement by identifying the most crucial content for students to know. The document also notes that pacing guides are dynamic resources that should evolve based on educational needs.
Why & How of Pacing Guides
- 2. HELLO! I am Stewart Hudnall @stewhud
- 4. Driving Questions We answer the first two questions using the pacing guide
- 5. PACING GUIDES Allow us and the students to know what we want them to know.
- 6. WHY PACING GUIDES? Why Pacing Guides? Provides Focus
- 7. WHY PACING GUIDES? Why Pacing Guides? To challenge teachers with important questions
- 8. WHY PACING GUIDES? Why Pacing Guides? To identify and effectively use classroom assessments
- 11. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS What are the Big Rocks?
- 12. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS Included in our Pacing Guides?
- 14. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS Essential Standards help avoid Curriculum Chaos
- 15. “Robert J. Marzano rates a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum as the first factor having the most impact on student achievement What Works in Schools by Robert J. Marzano
- 16. How do we determine Essential Standards?
- 17. “Ask yourself the following question: What is the most important things students should know before advancing to the next grade?
- 18. K-22? If every standard was adequately taught in our school system, instead of K-12 we would have K- 22. Do you even want to think about what a 28 year old high school senior would be like?
- 19. Standards & Objectives Financial Literacy 4 Standards 13 Objectives 73 Sub-Objectives
- 20. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS Prune the Standards
- 21. What does the Essential Standard process look like?
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- 24. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS Don’t lose sight of the forest
- 25. “What you will find is that good set of Essential Standards will cover about 88% of the items on the state test, but not 100%. If you go after the extra 12%, yo will have to cover many more standards and hence have less teaching time to thoroughly teach each of the essential standards. Ainsworth 2004
- 26. UNIT GUIDES
- 27. PACING GUIDES Remember: Pacing Guides are living documents
- 28. “You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar
- 30. THANKS! Any questions? You can find me at @stewhud stewart.hudnall@jordandistrict.org