SASIT Thomas E. Gluck, Acting Secretary of Education Amy Morton, Deputy Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Ed Vollbrecht, Ph.D., Director,

SASITThomas E. Gluck, Acting Secretary of EducationAmy Morton, Deputy Secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary EducationEd Vollbrecht, Ph.D., Director, Bureau of Teaching and Learning Support

October 2010

SASIT Objectives

• Upon completion of the workshop, SASITs will be able to: • Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the six components

of a Standards Aligned System and how they align to promote improved student achievement.

• Practice using the different functions of Clear Standards for varied purposes in preparation for future trainings.

• Create examples of scenarios for each of the different functions in the Clear Standards section to use when providing trainings.

• Explain the different content types within SAS portal Materials & Resources section, the sources of content, and the search capabilities when facilitating SAS trainings.

• Identify and select Materials & Resources aligned to PA Standards and Eligible Content to share with audiences in future trainings.

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SASIT Objectives

• Develop ways to share the Curriculum Frameworks and ELL Overlay documents with administrators, curriculum coordinators, and teachers for different purposes for SAS trainings in respective intermediate units, districts, schools, and school buildings.

• Practice training others on creating customized student assessments using released test items aligned to PA Standards and Eligible Content.

• Examine resource materials related to assessments to share with future audiences in SAS trainings.

• Create activities for future SAS trainings using the Instruction and Intervention tabs that would be beneficial to share with colleagues and students within their respective intermediate units, districts, schools, and school buildings.


SASIT Objectives

• Join the SAS Professional Learning Community for SASITs and participate in the Communities, Blogs, and Forums that are available for trainers.

• Practice adding District Curriculum Maps to My Curriculum Maps and Instructional Maps.

• Create an Instructional Map with Teacher Notes and upload Materials and Resources and other documents from My ePortfolio to embed within an Instructional Map.


SASIT Objectives

• Develop and discuss action plans for providing professional development to colleagues on SAS and the SAS Portal.

• Describe how implementing all the components of a Standards Aligned System can improve student engagement and achievement.

• Practice using the SAS Training database for creating training sessions and administering surveys/evaluations to your participants.


Standards Aligned System


Clear Standards

FairAssessments

CurriculumFramework

Instruction

Materials & Resources

Interventions

StudentAchievement


Clear Standards• Clear, high standards that establish what all students should know and be able to do.

• Revised Standards for grades 3, 5, 8 and 11 have been approved by the State Board of Education.

• Standard statements for grades 4, 6, 7 and courses are proceeding through the approval process.

• Standards statements for K-3 have been articulated and are also under review.

Clear Standards

FairAssessments

Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement

Curriculum Framework

Fair Assessments


Fair Assessment is a process used by teachers and students before, during, and after instruction to provide feedback and adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve student achievement.

Types of Assessment :• Summative• Formative• Benchmark• Diagnostic

Clear Standards

FairAssessments

Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement




The Curriculum Framework specifies what is to be taught for each subject in the curriculum. In Pennsylvania, Curriculum Frameworks include:

• Big Ideas

•Concepts

•Competencies

• Essential Questions

The Curriculum Framework is aligned to Standards and, where appropriate, Eligible Content.

Clear Standards


Instruction


Interventions

StudentAchievement

FairAssessments

Instruction


Aligned instruction comprises the following activities:•Teaching topics that are aligned with the standards.•Ensuring the right level of challenge.•Focusing teaching based on the learning needs of each student.•Implementing instructional strategies to increase student achievement.

StudentAchievement

Clear Standards

Instruction


InterventionsFair

Assessments




StudentAchievement

Clear Standards


Instruction

InterventionsFair

Assessments


Materials and resources include:

• Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions,

•Units and lesson plans

•Content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania Academic Standards

Materials & Resources:Learning Progressions


StudentAchievement

Clear Standards


Instruction

InterventionsFair

Assessments


•Learning progressions illustrate how students grow academically and articulate what they are learning at each grade level.•They can be defined as roads or pathways that students travel as they progress toward mastery of the skills needed for career and college readiness.• Each road follows a route composed of a collection of building blocks that are defined by the content standards for a subject.

Fair Assessments

Fair Assessment is a process used by teachers and students before, during, and after instruction to provide feedback and adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve student achievement.


Fair Assessments

• Summative Assessment: seeks to make an overall judgment of progress made at the end of a defined period of instruction.

• Formative Assessment: used by teachers and students during instruction to provide ongoing feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievement of intended instructional outcomes.


Fair Assessments

• Benchmark Assessment: Designed to provide feedback to both the teacher and the student about how the student is progressing towards demonstrating proficiency on grade level standards.

• Diagnostic Assessment: Ascertains, prior to instruction, each student’s strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills.


• Please navigate to www.pdesas.org/sasit

• Once you have explored the site, please complete the activity on page 52 of the training manual.


Teacher Tools: My Profile


The information provided in this section will be used to manage your SAS account:

•Manage Personal Information

•Identify professional interests

•Change a password

•The picture you upload will also be used in the SAS Learning Communities to illustrate membership.

Teacher Tools: My Profile


• Click on Teacher Tools

• Select My Profile

Teacher Tools: My ePortfolio


A web-based, portable filing cabinet Create organizational folders Add resources

• Add to My ePortfolio• Upload File• Add Bookmark

Teacher Tools: My ePortfolio


• Click on Teacher Tools

• Select My Profile

SAS Curriculum Mapping Tool

The SAS Curriculum Mapping tool allows districts to determine the template for their own maps and

optimizes both state-level and local resources and approaches.


The SAS Curriculum Mapping tool offers some curricular assistance

(frameworks) to schools but respects local curriculum decision-

making.



SAS Curriculum Maps are fully integrated with the SAS portal so

that teachers can easily access the maps, save them to their own ePortfolios and have immediate

access to all other components and resources of SAS



Curriculum Map Options for Districts

• Automatically add PA standards, anchors, eligible content• Automatically add PA Big Ideas, Concepts, Competencies• Automatically add PA Essential Questions• Capability to add any/all local learning objectives, change

scope of map (in terms of time)• Capability to add local assessments• Capability to add local resources or use existing SAS

Resources & Materials (videos, links, web-based instruction, etc.)



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