1. PCS Curriculum Review Week
June 18-20, 2013
Eastern Elementary School
Day 2

2. Welcome Back!

3. Group Activity
Find someone from another team and share:
1.Something you are proud you accomplished
yesterday
2.Something you hope to accomplish today
3.Something you have a question on from
yesterday
As you listen to your partner…
1.Congratulate them on their accomplishment
2.Answer their question (if you are able)

4. Day 1 Reflections/Feedback
Snacks Presenter missed the boat on the Targets
and Criteria for Success (I Can/I Will)
Directions were clear No paper handouts
Great group to work with
Consensus and little conflict
Got to work quickly
Pace of the work

5. 3-2-1 Reveals (Day 1)
Expectations Surprises Clarifications
Lots of conflict Very knowledgeable group Will the guides change?
Boring/Slow/Tedious Everyone got along I Can/I Will (Target/Success)
To be overwhelmed It became more clear as the
day went on
Cross-Curriculum and ITES
Breakfast Ease of use of documents Traditional Alg 2 & Geo
Consensus was reached Vocabulary
Did not have to re-invent
curriculum
Timeline for US Hist I & II
Size of groups How are you?

6. Norms for the Week
• Start & end punctually
• Dress appropriately
• Listen actively
• Disagree respectfully
• Participate enthusiastically
• Focus completely (monitor your
technology)
• Have Fun

7. Remember…
What is learned here
leaves here

8. Schedule: Day 2
• 8:00-8:30 – Opening Session
• 8:30-11:45 – Work Session
• 11:45-1:00 – Lunch (on your own)
• 1:00-4:30 – Working on the Work
• 4:30-4:45 – Listening/Debrief Session

9. Direction for Today
1. Review Yesterday’s Work
2. Understand how Assessment fits in
with the District Curriculum Guides
3. Map Essential Questions and
learning targets for first ½ of
year/course
4. Establish pacing for mid-marking
period benchmarks

10. Deliverables for Today
1. Draft essential questions for at least the
first ½ of the course/year
2. Establish pacing for mid-marking
benchmarks & marking period benchmarks
3. Draft learning targets & criteria for success
for at least the first ½ of the course/year

11. Criteria for Success

12. Success: Assessing
• You really understand when you can…
• Explain, connect, systematize, or predict
• Demonstrate meaning and importance
• Apply or adapt information to novel situations
• Recognize information/skill is one plausible
perspective among others and question its
assumptions
• View it as its author/speaker saw it
• Avoid and point out common misconceptions,
biases, or simplistic views

13. Success: Assessing
• Varied types, over time:
• authentic tasks and projects
• academic exam questions, prompts, and
problems
• quizzes and test items
• informal checks for understanding
• student self-assessments

14. Group Activity
As a table-group….
Compare formative and summative assessment
Contrast formative and summative assessment
Record your thoughts in a meaningful way for
you to remember them.

15. Assessments: Formative & Summative
Formative Summative
Used by teachers and students during
instruction
Used at the end of a unit, class, semester
Purpose is to inform instruction Purpose is to measure learning retention
On-Going Assessment Time-bound, One-time Assessment
Not graded for a accountability (student
or teacher)
Graded for accountability (student and/or
teacher)
Descriptive in nature Evaluative in nature
One is NOT better than the other; they both have
their place and are essential to learning

16. Assessments: Our Responsibility
• Marking-period benchmark assessments will
be developed at the district level
• Mid-marking period common assessments will
be developed by each PLC
• CRW participants are NOT CREATING
assessments
• CRW teams ARE developing the criteria by
which students will be measured

17. Group Work
For each content area/grade your group is
responsible for:
1.Create Essential Questions for the first ½ of
the year/course
2.Identify where end of marking period and mid-
marking period pacing should fall (so
assessments can be created by PLCs)
3.Create Learning Targets and Criteria for
Success for the first ½ of the year/course
4.Identify Assessment Ideas
5.Align learning targets and criteria success to
the standards

18. 3-2-1 Reflection Activity
• List 3 things you were expecting
when you arrived today
• List 2 pleasant surprises
• Write 1 question you need
clarification on for tomorrow