Scales: The Untold story…

Scales,changed my life!!!

Making them “Teacher friendly”

Chapter/Unit scales

Notebook based vs. posting on board/wall

Templates for cutting and pasting

Use existing objectives/learning goals in two easy formats

Formative assessment built into document, easy for teacher and student to use

SCALES – Key points

Allows teacher an easy way to document formative assessment in the classroom(teachers track growth)

Allow students to evaluate their progress using a notebook scale(students track growth)

Allow feedback on effectiveness of lessons Establish a shared norm for courses or

grade levels to define mastery and comprehension

The key is to take existing learning goals in present in a more user friendly format for evaluation.

Subject area learning goals

Identify the physical characteristics and the human characteristics that define and differentiate regions (e.g., climate, terrain, resources) (e.g., religion, government, economy, demography).

Describe the factors and processes that contribute to the differences between developing and developed regions of the world.

Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of regional issues in different parts of the world that have critical economic, physical, or political ramifications (e.g., desertification, global warming, cataclysmic natural disasters).

Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of how selected regions change over time.

Use geographic terms and tools to analyze case studies of debates over how human actions modify a selected region (e.g., mining, drilling, farming, housing).

Standard 2: Understand physical and cultural characteristics of places.

State Benchmarks

stacking vs. sortingTwo styles

Allows for formativeAssessment by students and teachers

stacking vs. sortingStarting with score of one paste 2-3 learning goals

Add 2-3 more learning goals to each box in the scale

Sort your learning objectives by levels.

Only add additional goals as you go up each level.

Key words for sorting

LabelDefineRecall

AnalyzeDesign

Synthesis

DescribeExplainIdentify

Compare/contrastDraw conclusions

Develop

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2

3

4

stacking vs. sorting

Goal Attained!

Geographers can list the 5 major world religions and can compare and contrast significant characteristics of those faiths using content vocabulary. 1.0

Geographers can map the source areas, diffusion patterns and spatial distributionof the major religions and can describe the cultural landscape of each. 2.0

Geographers can locate the source areasand spatial distribution of minority faiths, describing the unique traits characteristic to those groups and explain the concepts of secularism and fundamentalism as found in the globalizing modern world.

3.0

Geographers can identify, locate and discuss real-world contemporary examples of religious conflict; analyze them to determine whether they are interfaith or intrafaith and explain the actual underlying cause of the conflict and the potential political impacts of these issues.

4.0

AP Human GeographySample Scale

How do scales help students to “self-evaluate?”

The scales allow students to do a self check to see if they understand the material

They can determine areas that students need to seek additional help on from the teacher

They can easily track their own growth and progress.

They can also see how to take responsibility for their own success.

Think of it like a Publix shopping list every time they master a concept it’s like placing an item in your cognitive shopping cart. They simply check it off their list.

I don’t always use scales but

when I do I use Marzano!