Standards Understanding and Unpacking

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StandardsUnderstanding and Unpacking

• Fall SY2011
• District Training

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Desired Outcomes(Target-Method-Match)

• Participants extract the Big Idea from a
  standard/benchmark.
• Participants determine the knowledge and skills
  for a particular standard/benchmark.
• Participants determine appropriate assessments to
  measure student proficiency of the
  standard/benchmark.

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Whats In a Standard/Benchmark?

• Big Ideas
• Knowledge
• Skills

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Target
Knowledge
Application
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Big Ideas

• What makes a Big Idea
• Big?

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Big Ideas

• Like a linchpinbig ideas are essential for
  understanding. Used to hold together related
  content knowledge so we are not left with bits
  and pieces of inert facts that do not take us
  anywhere.
• Ideas that serve as umbrella concepts.
• Core or essence of the
  subject.

Wiggins, G. and McTighe, Jay, Understanding by
Design, ASCD, pp. 66-67.
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Big Ideas

• Core Concepts
• Focusing Themes
• Important Ideas

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Big Ideas

• Big Ideas are embedded
• in the
• standards and
• benchmarks.

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Big Ideas
Find the Big Idea in the standard . . .

• PCO-2.0
• (Public and Human Services Core)
• Assess effective communication skills
• needed to be successful in the public and human
  service industry.

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Check for Understanding
Which of the following are the Big Ideas?

• Quadratic Equation

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Check for Understanding
Which of the following are the Big Ideas?

• Verb Tense Agreement

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Check for Understanding
Which of the following are the Big Ideas?

• Patterns

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Big Ideas
Abstract ? Obvious
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Check for Understanding

• HCO 1.0
• Analyze the interdependence of the major body
  systems as they relate to health and wellness.

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Knowledge

• What students need in order to
• Construct meaning
• Organize information
• Store information

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Skills

• What students need in order to
• Do something
• Solve a problem
• Communicate
• Work with others

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Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge Skills Benchmarks

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Unpacking

• HCO 1.0
• Analyze the interdependence of the major body
  systems as they relate to health and wellness.
• HCO 1.1
• Compare and contrast the major body systems,
  functions, components, and their common diseases
  and disorders.

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Unpacking

• HCO 1.0
• Analyze the interdependence of the major body
  systems as they relate to health and wellness.
• HCO 1.1
• Compare and contrast the major body systems,
  functions, components, and their common diseases
  and disorders.

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Unpacking

• HCO 1.0 Interdependence (Big Idea)
• HCO 1.1
• Compare and contrast the major body systems,
  functions, components, and their common diseases
  and disorders.

• Knowledge
• Definition of terms
• Various body systems
• Various functions
• Components
• Diseases
• Disorders

• Skills
• Sort and categorize
• Research (Text, Periodicals)
• Web-Search
• Diagram
• Model Construction
• Data Collection
• Recording Observations

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Check for Understanding

• Would this activity meet the standard/benchmark
  HCO 1.0 and 1.1?

By planning and implementing a blood drive,
students will learn about the history of blood
donation/banking, circulatory system,
professionalism, public speaking and oral
presentations. The Blood Drive will meet 100 of
donation goals set by the Blood Bank of Hawaii.
Training manual for future blood drives will be
developed.
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Check for Understanding

• HCO-3.0
• Use medical terminology and mathematical skills
  in effective communication in the delivery of
  quality health care.
• HCO-3.1
• Read and interpret health-related information in
  order to interpret, transcribe and communicate
  information, data and observations precisely.

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Check for Understanding

• HCO-3.0 Communication (Big Idea)
• HCO-3.1
• Read and interpret health-related information in
  order to interpret, transcribe and communicate
  information, data and observations precisely.

• Skills
• Read
• Interpret
• Transcribe
• Document Data and Observations

• Knowledge
• Definition of terms
• Data organization and storage formats

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Target
D
Adaptation
C
Assimilation
Students Learn And Students Do For A Real
Situation
Students Learn
Knowledge
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B
Acquisition
Application
Teachers Do
Students Do
Application
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Check for Understanding

• Work in Your Pathway Groups
• Select a Standard and Benchmark to Deconstruct
• Identify the Big Ideas
• Identify the knowledge and skills
• What insights were made that will impact
  classroom instruction?
• Share thoughts in the large group.