PBL Instruction
These are the starting place for planning proficiency-based instruction.
What are learning targets and learning scales?
An important first step to identifying students' levels of proficiency before instruction.
What is a preassessment?
These are the "backbone" of a proficiency-based curriculum.
What are learning targets and scales?
Transferable skills are those that are needed to
adapt to various life contexts and that people can
potentially transfer to different social, cultural or
work settings. Transferable skills include cognitive,
social and emotional skills, which enable children
and adolescents to continue lifelong learning and
become active and productive citizens.
What are Transferable Skills?
This is a teaching approach that works to accommodate the needs and abilities of all learners and eliminates unnecessary hurdles in the learning process. This means developing a flexible learning environment in which information is presented in multiple ways, students engage in learning in a variety of ways, and students are provided options when demonstrating their learning.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
Incremental versions of learning targets that break down larger objectives into what can be achieved in 1-2 classes.
What are lesson targets?
This is the number of opportunities a student should have to demonstrate proficiency through reassessment.
What is unlimited (however many they need)?
The starting place for planning proficiency-based instruction.
What are learning targets and scales?
These are two examples of ways educators can utilize the Transferable Skills throughout their day.
(Universal/teaching lesson, SSP, Intensive Behavior plan, IEP goals)
This is an example of planning for variability.
Ex. Turning on closed captioning when showing a video, Providing options for demonstrating student learning. (writing/singing/typing etc)
Double Jeopardy!!!!!
(How much do you want to wager?)
Proficiency-based instruction rarely relies solely on one of these, of which there is no perfect version.
What is a program?
In order, these are the levels of proficiency on the MAUSD learning scales.
What is getting started, developing, proficient, and extending?
Student-friendly statements that should be shared with learners.
What are learning targets?
These are the four domains of the Transferable Skills.
What are Personal Development, Community Connection, Innovative Thinking, and Effective Communication?
The UDL graphic organizer from CAST stresses providing these, for specific purposes, not just for the sake of choice.
What are choices?
In a proficiency-based system, the instructional focus moves from covering content to this.
What is helping students reach proficiency on every learning target?
Because teachers share these with students throughout instruction, they become the centerpiece of communication around learning in the classroom.
What are learning scales?
A proficiency-based curriculum consists of various elements, which could include instructional program materials, various assessments, and these learning goals.
What are learning targets?
ex. I can teach students about character development through a group activity and support community connections by listening to others’ experiences and ideas and describing how their thoughts change their thinking and/or actions.
Double Jeopardy!!!!!
(What do you want to wager?)
These three networks are at the center of the UDL framework.
What are the affective network (the why), the recognition network (the what), and the strategic network (the how)? (Multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression.)
An important element within any proficiency-based learning environment is supporting students' use of learning targets to do this.
What is goal setting/reflecting on learning?
Learning scales articulate activity-neutral proficiency criteria and therefore can replace this.
What are common assessments?
The intentionally aligned and clearly defined proficiencies, transferable skills, instruction, and assessment practices that ensure each and every student engages and achieves academic and social emotional growth in an innovative, inclusive, and flexible learning environment.
What is the MAUSD PBL glossary definition of "Curriculum"?
These are three strands within the Transferable Skills.
Thoughts and Emotions, Identities and Values, Decisions and Responsibilities, Resources and Progress, Feedback and Reflection
Finish this sentence: “More and more researchers validated the idea that delivering intervention by label wasn’t the secret to success, but rather" this.
”delivering support by need was really the answer (Jung, 7).”