Lets Mingle

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Lets Mingle
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Lets Mingle

• Interview your partner. Be prepared to introduce
  your partner providing the following information
• His or her name
• His or her job
• An important fact about his or her life that took
  place in the year on the coin

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GLE Survey

• The Results

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• Grade Level Expectations
• Spring 2005

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Grade Level Expectations (GLEs)An Introduction
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What Are Grade Level Expectations?

• GLEs define what all students should know or be
  able to do at the end of a given grade level
  (mastery)
• GLEs further define content standards and
  benchmarks

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GLEs Are Not

• Curriculum
• Inclusive of everything that should be covered in
  a grade
• GLEs define core content to be
• mastered

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Purpose of the GLEs

• To meet the requirements of NCLB which mandated
  all states develop grade-by-grade standards
• To guide the development of curriculum,
  instruction and assessment in the four core
  content areas in LA schools
• To provide uniformity in core content taught
  across the state

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GLE Development Process

• Drafted by committees of LA educators
• Informed by national consultants
• Evaluated by teacher focus groups
• Reviewed by the public and external content
  experts
• Revised by the committees
• Approved by the BESE

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How are the GLEs Related to Standards and
Benchmarks?

• Grade Level Expectations
• further define and provide a progression of
  specificity to benchmarks for grade levels
  PreK-12.

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How Are the GLEs Related toStandards and
Benchmarks?

• Content standards
• represent the broad, general goals that describe
  what students should know and be able to do.

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How Are the GLEs Related toStandards and
Benchmarks?

• Benchmarks
• are more specific statements of what all students
  should know and be able to do that are written
  for specific grade clusters.
• further define the
  standard for different grade
  clusters

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How Are the GLEs Related to Standards and
Benchmarks?

• Grade-Level Expectations
• are directly related to benchmarks
• define what the benchmark means for a given grade

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Standards, Benchmarks, GLEs
Content Standard
Benchmark
Benchmark
Benchmark
GLE GLE
GLE GLE GLE
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GLEs, Standards, and Benchmarks
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How are the GLEs Related to the Curriculum?

• Represent the core curriculum that ALL students
  should master
• Make curricula more consistent throughout the
  state
• Align what is taught with what is assessed

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GLEs Related to Assessment2006

• Grades 4 8LEAP 21
• CRTs
• Grades 10 11GEE 21
• CRTs
• Grades 3, 5, 6, 7 9iLEAP
• Augmented NRTs for English language arts and
  mathematics
• Short CRTs for science and social studies
• Grade 9iLEAP
• Augmented NRTs for English language arts and
  mathematics

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Teachers Guides to Statewide Assessment

• Math, Science, Social Studies, English Language
  Arts
• Includes
• Test Design Overview
• Sample Test Items
• Scoring Rubrics
• Assessment Framework

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