Colorado Academic Standards
These standards indicate what students should know and should be able to do.
What are content standards
This is an awareness of one's thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them.
What is Metacognition
These are often a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support thinking.
What are thinking routines
This term is the process by which teachers and schools create and maintain appropriate behavior of students in classroom settings.
Classroom management
The superintendent of this Colorado school district was fired without cause on a 4-3 vote, ending his 26-year career with the district.
Douglas County
These measure how well a student's work meets the content standard.
What are performance standards.
__________ refers to a method where teachers offer a particular kind of support to students as they learn and develop a new concept or skill.
What is scaffolding
Taking part in this action helps gain information from other teachers currently working in the field.
What is observation
This system of supports helps schools and districts to organize resources through alignment of academic standards and behavioral expectations, implemented with fidelity and sustained over time, in order to enable every child to successfully reach his/her fullest potential.
Multi-Tiered System of Supports
This non-profit news organization covers education in several American communities.
Chalk Beat
Also known as the State Standards Initiative this 2010 initiative details what K–12 students throughout the entire United States should know in English language arts and mathematics.
What are Common Core Standards
This thinking routine is a Nonverbal routine that forces visual connections (hint: remember reading response 1)
What is Color, Symbol, Image
These questions focus on a researchable issue whose answer takes the form of a claim that is supported by evidence, information, and reasoning.
Inquiry Question
This term refers to a classroom in which all students, irrespective of their abilities or skills, are welcomed holistically
Inclusive classroom
Colorado educators earn this status after three consecutive years of effective teaching within a district.
Non-probationary
The Colorado Measure of Academic Success is a statewide assessment for grades 3-8 that cover these four content areas.
What is Science, Social Studies, Mathematics and English Language Arts/Literacy
This diagram is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added.
What is a mind map
Also known as the approach to teaching, this is the theory and practice of learning, and how the process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners.
What is pedagogy
____________ is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge.
Funds of knowledge
This man was the plaintiff in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that took on the Topeka Board of Education to desegregate the city's public elementary schools in 1950.
Oliver Brown
These standards are an essential guide for all educators to help English Language Learners access grade level academic content while learning English are known as these.
What are the five Colorado English Language Proficiency (CELP) Standards.
This set of structured model was developed to provide a common language for teachers to discuss and exchange learning and assessment methods.
What is Blooms Taxonomy
Doing this while learning at MSU will help develop future relationships among fellow educators.
Building a professional network
By having this, you show that you are hopeful and confident, and think of the good aspects of a situation rather than the bad ones.
Positivity
Finalizing professional practice and measuring of student learning and outcomes happens during this “connection”
Spring connection