Julius West Middle School Inservice Program 2602

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Julius West Middle SchoolIn-service
Program2/6/02

• Presenters
• Mary Jean Williams
• Tom Gillard
• Julius West New Teachers

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Enduring Understanding

• Framing a lesson with objectives can help
  students master the concepts of the lesson.

Lesson
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Essential Question

• How can a lesson be structured to help students
  master key concepts?

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Outcomes (What I hope to accomplish) -

• Familiarize staff with terminology from the MCPS
  Curriculum Framework
• Solidify understanding of Mastery Objectives
• Encourage a dialog about lesson planning and
  instruction

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Objectives By the end of the session, teachers
should be able to -

• differentiate among terms for lesson design and
  assessment
• design a lesson using MCPS Framework terminology
• develop mastery objectives for classroom use
  based on content standards

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Pre-assessing

• Outcomes
• Indicators
• Objectives
• MLOs
• Core Learning Goals
• Enduring Understandings
• Essential Questions
• Content Standards

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Our Guest Speaker.
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Our Guest Speaker.

• Direct from the Institute of Public Buffoonery

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Professor David Dudleyson
My objectives for today.
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Objectives for Mr. Dudleysons math class

• Do the warm-up
• Learn math procedures for working with fractions
• Discuss numbers
• Take a quiz
• Start homework
• Remember to bring packets tomorrow

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Problem???????

• Agenda Items
• Not measurable
• Not taken from Content Standards
• Do not frame the lesson

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How about a science objective, Professor?
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Objective for Mr. Dudleysons science class

• Students will evaluate and modify designs and
  products, when demonstrating that a solution to
  one problem can result in other problems and
  taking into account various constraints (e.g.,
  gravity, property of materials, economic,
  political, social, ethical, and aesthetic).

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Problem??????

• Indicator Statement
• 1.7.25 in Science Framework
• Not kid friendly (not teacher friendly)
• Who has time for this?
• Measurable?

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Try again, Professor
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Objective for the Day Physical Education (Grade
7)

• Students will design and perform a gymnastic
  routine which includes a variety of movements and
  skills.

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Problem??????

• Solid objective!
• Taken from indicator (7.2 Students will enjoy the
  aesthetic and creative aspects of performance.)
• Measurable
• Kid-friendly

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Outcomes/Content Standards

• Few of these (Science 6)
• Found in Framework

Indicators

• Many of these (28 for Science 6, standard 1)
• Found in Framework

Objectives

• No limit to number
• Teacher created
• Differentiated

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Lesson Planning Integral Components

WHY?
WHAT ?
Objectives
HOW ?
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WHY?(Why essential to students?)

• 1. Enduring Understanding
• Lasting concept
• Central to the unit
• Valuable to students
• Expressed as a statement

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WHY?(Why essential to students?)

• 2. Essential Questions
• Measure enduring understanding
• Open-ended
• Should provoke interest
• Unit and/or lesson

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This is the part about objectives.
WHAT?

• What do students need to know
• and be able to do?
• Objectives based on Indicators from
  State Content Standards
• (previously known as Outcomes and Indicators
  or MLOs)

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Why do objectives matter?
(Tom pauses to check for understanding)
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The short version

Objectives frame your instruction.
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Indicator Objective

• Indicator
• The student will organize and display data, with
  and without technology, using a variety of
  displays, including scatter plots.
• Objective
• Students will create a scatter plot based on a
  given data set.

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WHAT? (Objectives)

• Mastery Objectives - Examples
• Students will select statements of propaganda
  from a list.
• Students will solve addition problems using the
  partial-sum method.
• More.

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WHAT? (Objectives)

• Mastery Objectives - Example
• Students will identify in a news article the
  information which is most likely to grab the
  readers attention.

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Is it ALWAYS this boring?
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WHAT?

• Criteria for a Mastery Objective
• uses active performance verbs
• matches studentschallenging and attainable
• based on indicators from Content Standards
• KID FRIENDLY!!

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How? A reason to come back..
Im getting a headache.

• Assessment
• Instructional Delivery / Strategies

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A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people to make
it worth the effort.

• - Herm Albright