What are the priority standards?
Priority Standards are “a carefully selected subset of the total list of the grade-specific and course-specific standards within each content area that students must know and be able to do by the end of each school year in order to be prepared for the standards at the next grade level or course.
What are priority and supporting standards?
Priority standards represent the assured student competencies that each teacher needs to help every student learn, and demonstrate proficiency in, by the end of the current grade or course” (Ainsworth, 2013, p. xv). Supporting standards are “those standards that support, connect to, or enhance the Priority Standards.
Why do we prioritize standards?
Prioritization affords teachers a bank of standards from which to choose as they scaffold instruction. When teachers prioritize standards, they greatly improve their own professional knowledge. The process requires them to obtain a deep understanding of the skills and concepts embedded within each standard.
What is prioritized curriculum?
Prioritized Learning is the learning that has been identified as most essential to a particular grade level or course and for which significant time and resources are devoted to ensure mastery.
How do you determine priority standards?
With a focus on mastery learning, priority standards are:
- Identified through selection criteria.
- Mapped to specific learning objectives and outcomes.
- Instructed and assessed in alignment across a lesson or course.
What are supporting standards?
Supporting Standards are those standards that support, connect to, or enhance the Priority Standards. They are taught within the context of the Priority Standard, but might not receive the same degree of instruction and assessment emphasis as do the Priority Standards.
What is an essential standard?
ESSENTIAL STANDARDS: “Learning standards that are most essential because they possess qualities of endurance, leverage, and readiness for success at the next level” (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker and Many, 2010, p. 71).
How do I unpack a learning standard?
These are the steps in unpacking standards into learning targets:
- Read the standards as a team.
- Circle the verbs.
- Underline the nouns and noun phrases.
- Determine the number of targets found within the standards.
- Write as separate learning targets.
- Determine the depth of knowledge required of the standard.
How do you use priority standards?
A focus on priority standards means that while every standard in a grade level is addressed, more time and emphasis can be placed on those standards that fit the criteria of priority standards, and learners experience more instruction and practice on those concepts and skills.
What are the essential standards?
Essential Standards do not represent all that you are going to teach. They represent the minimum a student must learn to reach high levels of learning. Knowledge and skills of value beyond a single test date. Knowledge and skills of value in multiple disciplines.
What is the difference between a readiness and supporting standard?
Readiness standards are TEKS tested EVERY year on that grade’s test. Supporting standards are TEKS tested in ROTATING years (maybe once every 3 years) on that grade’s test. The GCISD curriculum documents for each subject denote whether standards are readiness or supporting.