PLC Basics
Focus on learning, culture of collaboration, focus on results.
What are the three big ideas of a PLC?
The standards that make up the bulk of curriculum in language arts and math.
What is the common core?
This is considered a final assessment or autopsy.
What is a summative assessment?
Analyzing at least three pieces of data in order to establish validity.
What is data triangulation?
Basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work.
What is a growth mindset?
Collective commitments developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are team norms?
Clearly states what you expect students to know and be able to do.
What is a learning target?
The Minnesota state test given to students from grades 3-11 in math, reading, and science.
What are the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA's)?
The Campus tool used this year by PLC teams to dis aggregate data.
What is Campus Data Lab (CDL)?
Learning that replicates or reflects activities that occur in the real world.
What is authenticity?
Specific, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, time-bound.
What is a SMART goal?
A hierarchy that ensures that the rigor of content advances across grade levels.
What is vertical alignment?
These assessments are typically administered 3-4 times a year.
What are benchmark or interim assessments.
Success or failure results from factors beyond their control.
What is external locus of control?
Establishing a culture of instructional excellence involves three distinct steps.
What is design, delivery, and diagnose?
What do we want students to understand, how will we know they have learned, how will we respond when they don't, and how will we respond if they already know it.
What are the four critical questions of learning?
A tool that measures the degree of student mastery toward a particular learning target.
What is a proficiency scale?
A team-developed instrument utilizing the same criteria to measure student learning.
What is a common assessment?
Data collected through observations, one-to-one interviews, or focus groups.
What is qualitative data?
Defines the level of rigor on the rigor/authenticity matrix.
What is Depths of Knowledge (DOK)?
A systematic process where people work together to analyze and impact student achievement - the engine of a PLC.
What is collaboration?
Alignment within a grade level team or class.
What is horizontal alignment?
A form of assessment that required students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a pre-made list.
What is a performance assessment?
Written to guide the scoring of a specific learning target and provides a score.
What is a rubric?
The fundamental reason for the occurrence of a problem.
What is root cause?