Essential Common Outcomes 18th Gen 08

PLC - Essential Learnings - 18th Gen. 08

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Essential Common Outcomes

of the Course and/or Unit of Study


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ESSENTIAL OUTCOMES


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Clarifying What Students Must Learn. . .

1. Collaborative study of essential learning promotes clarity.

2. Collaborative study of essential learning promotes consistent priorities.

3. Collaborative study of essential learning is crucial to the common pacing required for formative assessments.

4. Collaborative study of essential learning can help establish a curriculum that is viable.

5. Collaborative study of essential learning creates ownership of the curriculum among those who are called upon to teach it.


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What is Essential? Given the limited time you have with

students…you can’t do it all…you must choose the essential.

What knowledge and skills must I impart to my students this year so that they will enter next year’s class with confidence and a readiness for success?


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Saving Time

“In addition to providing time for instruction and effective collaboration, leaders must also conserve the time of classroom teachers by helping them focus on those academic content standards that are most important.”

Doug Reeves,2006 p.105


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All standards must be taught…Which ones are crucial for student success?Which other ones can be given less

emphasis – taught and assessed as they relate to the concepts and skills within other essential outcomes?

Think about essential outcomes as a prioritized subset of state standards.


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Criteria for Identifying Essential Common Outcomes

Separating essential from the peripheral

Endurance – are students expected to retain the skills/knowledge long after the text is completed?

Leverage – is this skill/knowledge applicable to many academic disciplines?

Readiness/Prerequisite – is this skill / knowledge preparing the student for success in the next grade/course?


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Deconstructing Essential Outcomes

What are the prerequisite knowledge and skills students need to have in order to demonstrate successful learning?

What are the knowledge and reasoning skills students need to have in order to demonstrate successful learning?

Are students able to articulate the desired learner objective?


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Determining what is most essential…

“Enduring” understanding

Important to

know and do

Worth being familiar with

Created by Barbara St. Clair, MAP Facilitator, 2006


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“Common pacing is a prerequisite for common formative assessments, which are some of the most powerful tools for improvement available to a school.”

DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, Many. 2006


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Mapping Units of Study

Determine essential outcomes for your students, by the end of unit/course/grade. GLES; state/national standards; and other resources Habits and attitude

Identify instructional structures to support goals. Whole group/small group/partnerships Scaffolding support

Explore broad units of study. Prerequisite knowledge and skills needed to achieve goals

Develop a ‘working’ curriculum map. Monthly goals Teaching focuses

Design an individual teaching plan. Daily lessons Resources needed


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Planning Discuss with your coaching team where

your school is in the process of identifying essential outcomes.

What is your next step(s) to have an instructional focus on essential outcomes?

Keep in mind that this might be a district issue that needs to be addressed at the district level.

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