Professional Development

Learning Targets

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• Describe the PLC structure and process

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• Use the ACE language for curriculum alignment

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• Create a performance assessment.

Keeping the end in mind

Learning Mission

A Vibrant Learning Community

A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a group of educators committed to working collaboratively in ongoing processes of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.

Three Big Ideas

Characteristics of PLCs

• Shared mission
• Collaborative teams learning together
• Action orientation (Learning by doing!)
• Collective inquiry (Action Research)
• Results Focused
• Committed to Continuous Improvement

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• Focus on Learning
• Collaborative Culture
• Focus on Results

Focus on Learning

• What do students need to know?
• How do we know they learned it?
• What do we do if they don't learn it?
• What do we do if they already know it?

Collaborative Culture

• Monthly PLC Meetings
• End of Quarter 1/2 Days
• Data Days

Focus on Results

• Goal Setting
• Data Driven

Today, we will focus on learning.

What do students need to know?

We must be clear on what we expect students to learn.

Learning Targets

• Team/Department Outcomes
• Course Outcomes
• Unit Concepts and Goals

How do we know they learned it?

Backwards Design

Now comes the fun part.

ACE Unit Structure

Traditional Tests

• Assess “Important to Know” knowledge from the Acquiring and Integrating Phase.
• Assess connections among lesson concepts that make up the Unit Concept and Goal.
• Inform both teacher and student about areas for improvement.

That's not the end.

Extend and Refine.
Using Knowledge Meaningfully.

Performance Assessment

To provide a culminating unit assessment in which students demonstrate achievement of the Unit Goal. .

Encourages students to make decisions about the content.

Different Levels

A Project?

• Individual and Independent
• Previously Unseen Material
• Encourages critical thinking at goal level

Examples

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