Handout for the PBTL presentation at OSBA, 2011

1. Proficiency-Based Teaching and Learning
Oregon School Boards Association Annual Conference
November 12, 2011 11:00 a.m.
Website: http://pbtl.shorturl.com
Presentation Slides:
Presenters:
Steve Boynton, Superintendent, Arlington Community Charter School, sboynton@arlington.k12.or.us
Travis Reeser, Principal, Arlington Community Charter School, treeser@arlington.k12.or.us
Leslie Walborn, Teacher, Arlington Community Charter School, lwalborn@arlington.k12.or.us
Rinda Montgomery Conwell, Assistant Superintendent North Central Education Service District, rmconwell@ncesd.k12.or.us

2. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Evaluating (original)/Creating (new)
Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing
Synthesis (original)/Evaluating (new)
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analysis (original)/Analyzing (new)
Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
Application (original)/Applying (new)
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Comprehension (original)/Understanding (New)
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Knowledge (original)/Remembering (new)
Recalling information
Recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, locating, finding
Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS)