Instructional Leadership Initiative

Module II: Standards-based Instructional Planning Process

Module Outcome

Participants will gain an understanding of the standards-based instructional planning process and apply it in the development of a unit of instruction.

Content Overview

1. Distinction between traditional and standards-based instruction
   
   
2. Step 1 - Select the Standard
   
   
3. Step 2 - Design the Assessment
   
   
4. Step 3 - Articulate Criteria for Success
   
   
5. Step 4 - Plan Opportunities to Learn and Perform
   
   
6. Development of Core Lessons
   
   

• Overhead #10: The Process of Instructional Planning
  
  
• Overhead #11: Toward Schoolwide Standards
  
  
• Overhead #12 Individual or Small Group Instructional Planning
  
  
• Overhead #13: Collaborate to Verify the Performance Standard(s)
  
  
• Overhead #14: Use Analysis of Student Work for Program Planning
  
  
• Overhead #15: Heuristic Definition
  
  
• Handout #1: Heuristic for Standards-based Instructional Planning: Backwards Mapping from Standards to Instruction.
  
  
• Posters of Each Step of Heuristic, Wallcharts #1-7
  
  
• Handout #2: Considerations in Selecting Standards
  
  
• Handout #3: Unpacking the Standard
  
  
• Handout #4: Small Group Worksheet I
  
  
• Handout #5: Small Group Worksheet 2
  
  
• Handout #6: Small Group Worksheet 3
  
  
• Handout #7: Small Group Worksheet 3 (attachment)
  
  
• Handout #8: Small Group Worksheet 4
  
  
• Handout #9: Small Group Worksheet 4 (attachment)
  
  
• Handout #10: Table Discussion Notes
  
  
• Handout #11: Considerations When Selecting or Designing Assessments
  
  
• Handout #12: Links Between Achievement Targets and Assessment Methods
  
  
• Handout #13: Aligning the Standard and the Assessment - Worksheet 1
  
  
• Handout #14: Aligning the Standard and the Assessment - Worksheet 2
  
  
• Handout #15: California Content Standards for The Bowling Task
  
  
• Handout #16A: The Bowling Task Heuristic Blank
  
  
• Handout #16B: The Bowling Task Assessment
  
  
• Handout #17: Bowling Task Heuristic Completed
  
  
• Handout #18: Criteria for Core Lessons
  
  

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