Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning Shift from a Traditional Time-Based Education System to a Learner-Centered Performance-Based System
Like many school districts, Lindsay Unified School District faced difficulty meeting the needs of increasingly diverse student populations. Through this detailed resource, you will learn how Lindsay Unified took action to improve student learning by shifting from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system. By adopting and tailoring Lindsay Unified s instructional model, you and your team can embark on your own district s transformation toward establishing a revised education system that empowers and motivates all students to succeed. Benefits Consider Lindsay Unified s core values and visions for leadership, curriculum, assessment, learning, and technology. Meet Lindsay Unified students and see how the district s performance-based system transformed their learning. Explore core value rubrics that school staff can use to reflect on personal leadership growth, frame important conversations, and provide feedback. Study Lindsay Unified s instructional model, which helps align the district s instructional decisions with its unified instructional vision. Download a free reproducible checklist for shifting to a performance-based system and lists of recommended strategies for ensuring a successful district transformation. Contents Chapter 1: Preparing for Change Chapter 2: Creating a New Culture Chapter 3: Transforming Leadership Chapter 4: Transforming Personnel Chapter 5: Transforming Curriculum and Assessment Chapter 6: Transforming Teaching and Learning Chapter 7: The Lindsay Community Epilogue Appendix "
Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning details Lindsay Unified's subsequent shift from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system.
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What Is Important
Do your students know which content is most important to learn? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also take responsibility for their own learning. They need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning.Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Know What is Important explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students the skill of identifying critical content. It includes: ·Explicit steps for implementation ·Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to identify critical content ·Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning ·Examples and non-examples from classroom practice ·Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.
They need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning.Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Identifying ...
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding
Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also be able to deliberately revise their own knowledge. They need to know how to use visual tools, written work, and academic notebooks to make revisions that help to deepen their understanding of the content. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Revising Knowledge: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students to revise their knowledge. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to revise their knowledge Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and non-examples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.
Existen habilidades que ayudan a aprender y corresponde a los maestros enseñarlas, de una manera explícita y deliberada, en el aula. Esa premisa guía este manual, que ha demostrado ser una herramienta poderosa para asegurar que el centro de la labor de los educadores sea el aprendizaje, entendido como un sistema complejo de procesos interactivos. (ITESO)
Demonstrates the importance of coaching as an essential component of effective teaching, discussing targeted feedback and identifying specific steps that teachers can take to improve their knowledge and skill.
Demonstrates the importance of coaching as an essential component of effective teaching, discussing targeted feedback and identifying specific steps that teachers can take to improve their knowledge and skill.
Thoroughly field-tested and used in a wide variety of educational environments, Marzano's Taxonomy reflects the most current research and today's movement to standards-based education.
Thoroughly field-tested and used in a wide variety of educational environments, Marzano's Taxonomy reflects the most current research and today's movement to standards-based education.
Provides information on standards-based education, covering such topics as assessing students, tracking students' progress, and performance tasks and rubrics.
Provides information on standards-based education, covering such topics as assessing students, tracking students' progress, and performance tasks and rubrics.
Ensure All Students Master Content by Designing and Implementing a Pcbe System
In K-12 education's growing movement of competency-based education and personalized learning, both contradictory and overlapping definitions come up around these two terms. To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system. This handbook explores approaches, strategies, and techniques that schools and districts should consider as they rethink traditional instruction to fit a PCBE system and support student learning. The authors share examples of how to use proficiency scales, standard operating procedures, behavior rubrics, personal tracking matrices, and other tools to aid in instruction and assessment. Benefits Receive clear guidance on implementing a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system. Determine what content to focus on and what standards to prioritize in personalized instruction. Read vignettes that illustrate the shifts that should occur to foster PCBE. Learn how a flexible PCBE learning environment of student agency can foster self-efficacy. Understand the variety of assessments available for measuring student proficiency in a PCBE system. Contents Chapter 1: Why Competency-Based Education and Personalized Learning? Chapter 2: What Content Will Be Addressed? Chapter 3: How Will the Learning Environment Promote Student Agency? Chapter 4: How Will Instruction Support Student Learning? Chapter 5: How Will Student Proficiency Be Measured? Chapter 6: How Will Scheduling Accommodate Student Learning? Chapter 7: How Will Reporting Facilitate Student Learning? Chapter 8: How Do Schools and Districts Transition to a PCBE System? Epilogue Appendix A: Tools to Support Student Agency Appendix B: A Model of Effective Instruction Appendix C: Sample Grading Sheet Appendix D: Resources for Creating a Shared Vision
To clear up this confusion, A Handbook for Personalized Competency-Based Education delves into the components of a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) system.
They need to be able to apply their learning to authentic, reality-based situations.Engaging in Cognitively Complex Tasks: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Generate & Test Hypotheses Across Disciplines explores explicit techniques for ...
A critical step in helping all students achieve high standards! Robert Marzano brings Bloom's Taxonomy into the 21st century with a new model that incorporates the latest in cognitive science and research on how we learn. Students and educators reap the benefits of new ways to design instruction, curriculum and assessment. From student-led conferences to policy assessment implications, this definitive work brings assessment concepts up-to-date and offers practical solutions for today's classrooms. Highlights include: An overview of Bloom's Taxonomy A model for the new taxonomy The knowledge domains The three systems of thinking The next taxonomy and the three knowledge domains Applying the taxonomy to curriculum assessment design This landmark work provides an essential roadmap for educating today's students! Easily applied by teachers, administrators, and staff development personnel.
From student-led conferences to policy assessment implications, this definitive work brings assessment concepts up-to-date and offers practical solutions for today's classrooms.
