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Course Syllabus
Mississippi Bend Area Education Agency
Course Syllabus (new course)
The syllabus is the basis for license renewal course* approval, and informs the course
participants of the requirements and learning outcomes. It contains identified essential
components to meet indicators of quality**.
* “course” can be used to include any planned adult learning opportunity such as class, in-service, training,
learning team, endorsement/graduate level, etc. in combination
to be not less than 15 contact hours per credit hour.
** Iowa Administrative Code 282: Chapter 17 indicators of quality for licensure renewal courses include:
1) The courses address specific student, teacher, and school needs evidenced in local school improvement
plans, or
2) The courses assist teachers in improving student learning performance, or
3) The courses assist teachers in improving teaching evidenced through the adoption or application of
practices, strategies, and information.
Course Overview
Date Submitted: 2/21/14
Course title: Implementing ELA Standards-Grades 9-12
Instructor: Kathleen Learn; Helen Duranleau-Brennan
Address: 729-21st St.
Phone Number: 563-344-6583; 563-344-6454
Email Address: Klearn@aea9.k12.ia.us; hduranleau-brennan@aea9.k12.ia.us
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Dates and Location
Dates
Times (please allow time for
breaks/meals: 1 hour for lunch; 2 – 15
minute breaks are standard)
Other (mentoring/coaching
time, online work, etc.)
15 hours of seat time per credit
Sept.11, 2014
October 21, 2014
Nov. 11, 2014
Jan. 23, 2015
Feb. 24, 2015
Apr. 13 2015
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m..
8 a.m . - 3 p.m.
8 a.m . - 3 p.m.
8 a.m. 3 p.m.
8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
All assignments due by:April 30, 2015
Dates grades will be posted:May14, 2015
Will course be held at the Bettendorf AEA?
If yes, Room:
Learning Center
Credit and Format Information
Number of Credits:
Type of credit requested
Type of Drake Graduate Credit:
1
Yes
No
2
3
Graduate (Drake)
Both
x EDEX (Drake Education Extension)
EDMA (application toward a Drake grad degree; see
Head of Professional Development for additional syllabus
requirements)
Audit
Yes
CEUs available from AEA
Yes: no. of Hours:
No
Appropriate for Paraeducator certificate Renewal
Appropriate for Substitute Authorization certificate Renewal
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Licensure Renewal
No
Yes x
Yes x
No
No
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Type of professional development proposed (check those that apply):
Course open to ALL
Instructor Reimbursement by (check one):
AEA supplemental contract (teaching on noncontract time as AEA contracted instructor;
supervisor has been notified)
Local district/no pay (teaching as part of district assignment)
x no pay (teaching as part of AEA employee assignment or other arrangements)
Target Audience:
Grade Level(s)
Content Area(s)
Minimum class size
Course Type
Content
ELA Teachers in Grades 9-12
ELA
Maximum class size 40
Pedagogy
Category
Please select the primary category for this course from the drop down menu
(click on the box and all choices will appear):
Literacy
Course materials needed
None or provided by the instructor at no cost to participants
Printed handouts – cost to be added to cost of course $30
Handouts to be uploaded to AEA Handouts website
Book(s) – no cost to participant; paid for by another source
Book(s) – cost to be added to cost of course; AEA Staff Dev. Dept. to order
Book(s) – participant to purchase on own prior to start date
Title/Author/copyright date:
Best source:
Cost:
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Course Outline
Published Course Description for website:
This course is designed to support ELA standards-based instruction and assessment in the
classroom. Participants will dig deeper into the standards, examine pre-designed units,
administer assessments, and develop standards-based lessons for their grade-level units.
There will be a focus on developing a deep understanding of the content, meaning, and
intent of the Iowa Core ELA standards; but it is expected that participants will have a
general knowledge of the history, development, structure, and format of the Iowa Core
ELA Standards. Participants will engage in monthly coaching (September – April) that
includes a classroom observation and coaching conversation with an AEA coach.
Participants must attend all sessions.
Option A:
Participants will use the pre-designed units, created by teacher teams facilitated by AEA
Reading Consultants, as the framework for the content of this course. The pre-designed
grade-level units include unwrapped standards, essential questions, and enduring
understandings, post assessments, pre assessments, and various performance tasks.
Participants will closely examine these units and administer the assessments and
performance tasks in their classrooms. Working collaboratively with other grade-level
teachers within their district and across the AEA, they will collect data, examine this
data, and use it to guide instruction. These grade-level teams will also develop lessons
and formative assessments to use within this unit framework. Participants will also
implement these in their classrooms and provide feedback on their use.
Option B:
Participants will design standards-based units in collaborative teams including unwrapped
standards, essential questions, and enduring understandings, post assessments, pre assessments,
and various performance tasks. Participants will administer assessments and performance tasks in
their classrooms. Working collaboratively with other grade-level teachers within their district and
across the AEA, they will collect data, examine this data, and use it to guide instruction. These
grade-level teams will also develop lessons and formative assessments for the unit. Participants
will also implement these in their classrooms and provide feedback on their use.
Note: Principals of participants are strongly encouraged to attend/visit class. No registration
required.
Describe the best practices to support the course goals/outcomes described in the next
section:
Iowa Core ELA standards define the concepts and skills that every student needs to be college and
career ready as well as a successful and literate individual.
The Iowa Professional Development Model clearly states that quality professional development is
supported by focused collaboration and support.
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Teacher impact statement: Participants will experience standards-based unit and lesson planning
first hand. They will imlement standards-based lessons, assessments, and performance tasks in
their classrooms.
Student impact statement: Students will have extensive work with ELA standards and work
toward mastery of them.
Iowa Teaching Standard(s) being addressed; check all that apply:
1: Demonstrates ability to enhance academic performance and support for implementation of
the school district’s student achievement goals.
2: Demonstrates competence in content knowledge appropriate to the teaching position.
3: Demonstrates competence in planning and preparing for instruction.
4: Uses strategies to deliver instruction that meets the multiple learning needs of students.
5: Uses a variety of methods to monitor student learning.
6: Demonstrates competence in classroom management.
7: Engages in professional growth.
8: Fulfills professional responsibilities established by the school district.
Iowa Leadership Standard(s) being addressed; check all that apply:
1: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development,
articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported
by the school community. (Shared Vision)
2: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by advocating, nurturing and
sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff
professional development. (Culture of Learning)
3: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by ensuring management of the
organization, operations and resources for a safe, efficient and effective learning environment.
(Management)
4: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by collaborating with families
and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs and mobilizing
community resources. (Family and Community)
5: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by acting with integrity, fairness
and in an ethical manner. (Ethics)
6: An educational leader promotes the success of all students by understanding the profile of
the community and responding to, and influencing the larger political, social, economic, legal and
cultural context. (Societal Context)
Course Equity Information
What strategies are you providing to help your participants meet the needs of diverse
learners? Mark as many boxes that apply to the professional development outlined in this
syllabus and then provide a description of the learning activities for this course.
Multi-cultural Issues 1) Does this course discuss ways to ensure learners from other
cultures are successful in the classroom? 2) Does this course promote the diversity of ideas and
thoughts in curriculum and assignments, such as knowledge of different world views and cultural
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perspectives? 3) Does your course acknowledge the learning styles of culturally diverse peoples?
4) Does your course promote/utilize resources that portray the various dimensions of a culturally
diverse population? 5) Does this course include strategies to form partnerships with families,
particularly with those who are culturally diverse?
Gender-fair Issues 1) Does this course include discussion about ensuring both male and
female learners are successful in the classroom (e.g. math and science classes)? 2) Does this
course promote/utilize resources that portray both sexes in active and passive activities? 3) Does
this course promote/utilize resources that portray both sexes in “nontraditional” ways as role
models? 4) Does this course discuss gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender issues, particularly as
they relate to school or community climate and/or student achievement?
Socio-economic Issues 1) Does this course include discussion about ways to ensure that
students from low socio-economic backgrounds are successful in the classroom? 2) Does this
course include discussion/understanding about who are SES students and the culture of poverty?
3) Does this course include discussion or analysis about disaggregating data based on socioeconomic status? 4) Does this course promote/utilize resources that may interest students from
low socio-economic backgrounds who may struggle academically? 5) Does this course include
learning about instructional strategies that will engage SES students in learning?
English Language Learners 1) Does this course include discussion of the impact of second
language learning on academic achievement? 2) Does this course address specific cultural
issues impacting student learning? 3) Does this course promote cross cultural communication
and involvement with ELL parents/family? 4) Does this course address legal/academic
responsibilities of school districts with educating ELL students?
Other Diverse Learners (e.g. TAG and learners with special needs) – 1) Does this course
address who are diverse learners, how to identify and/or how to serve diverse learners in the
classroom? 2) Do the learning expectations of this course include application of knowledge about
diverse learners? 3) Does this course deliver specific information about individual diverse
groups?
Please provide a description of the issues checked above. This course addresses the needs of all
students regardless of gender, cultural, or learning profile differences by incorporating the
professional development activities that prepare and support employees to work with diverse
learners. Participants are provided varied oportunities to demonstrate their learning and apply the
learning within their respective assignment.
Course Goals, Outcomes and Evaluation
Iowa Core statement
Resources: http://www.aea9.k12.ia.us/en/iowa_core/ and
http://www.educateiowa.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2485&Itemid=4602
List the IC areas that are addressed by this course; check all that apply:
Literacy
Mathematics
Science
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Social Studies
21st Century Skills
Outline the course goals and outcomes that a student will achieve upon completion of this course.
The description should be a statement that is a specific and measureable knowledge/skill, and tie
directly to the Iowa Core Components that were checked above.
An outcome is the specific learning behavior that participants in the course should demonstrate in
the context of achieving the goal. There may be more than one outcome for each goal.
To write goals, consider the following. These items will help dictate the grading rubric.
 What will participants know, be able to do, or value at the conclusion of the course?
 What specific observable or measurable actions should participants demonstrate when they
have met the outcome(s)?
 How will you know if participants achieved the outcome? How will this new knowledge be
demonstrated? These outcomes will be used in the rubric to assess and grade the
success of learning.
 The goal of courses offered for relicensure and/or graduate credit is that the outcomes are a
way to ensure that the Iowa Core is being transmitted into action. Please be specific in
documenting this through the goals and outcomes.
Course Goal(s) fill out as many
as appropriate
1. Participants will administer
unit assessments (pre/post
assessments and performance
tasks)
Outcome(s)
2. Participants will develop
a) Participants will work collaboratively with their
lessons and formative
assessments aligned with their
unit and their data.
grade-level team to develop standards-based
lessons and formative assessments and submit to
coach for feedback.
3. Participants will implement
a) Participants will submit feedback on lesson and
these lessons and formative
assessments and provide feedback
to their team and coach on them.
formative assessment implementation to their
coach.
4. Participants will engage in
a) Participants will prepare and implement
monthly coaching sessions.
standards-based lessons as requested and engage in
monthly coaching and follow-up conversations
monthly.
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a) Participants will collect data for each
assessment, bring data to sessions and work with
their grade-level team to analyze it and make
instructional decisions based on it.
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c) Option B: Participants will:
a.
Select and sequence standards.
5. Option B includes all of the
b.
Unwrap standards, develop essential
above plus: Participants will
questions and enduring understandings for each unit.
develop multiple units which
c.
include: unwrapped standards,
Creat
essential questions and enduring
e pre and post-assessments and performance tasks
understandings, post-assessments,
for each unit.
pre-assessments, and performance
tasks.
From: Program-Based Review and Assessment: Tools and Techniques for Program Improvement. Office of Academic Planning and
Assessment. University of Massachusetts Amherst. (2001).
Iowa Professional Development Model (IPDM)
Resource: http://www.isea.org/assets/document/ipdm-overview.pdf
What percentage of each technical will be used and briefly describe:
Theory:20
Demonstration:20
Practice: Collaboration (coaching, feedback, reflection): 60
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Course Rubric
The course grade will be determined using the following criteria.
A resource to assist in creating a rubric:
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/assessment/howto/outcomes.htm
Describe what is required for each Outcome and how many points are assigned to each
proficiency level. Provide a clear and specific description of the criteria that will be used to
evaluate student work.
At the bottom of the rubric, state how many points are needed to earn each grade; weighting is
accepted.
Course Requirements
(enter each criteria in the
boxes below and assign
a point value)
Goal 1 Outcomes:
Participants will
administer unit
assessments
(pre/post
assessments and
performance tasks)
Goal 2 Outcomes:
Participants will
work collaboratively
with their grade-level
team to develop
standards-based
lessons and
formative
assessments and
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Exemplary
Demonstrates
good
understanding
and skill
Points: 4
Participant
collects data
for each
assessment as
requested,
brings data to
sessions in the
format
provided, and
actively works
with gradelevel team to
analyze it and
make
instructional
decisions
based on it.
Participant
works
collaboratively
with gradelevel team to
develop
standardsbased lessons
and formative
Accomplished
Demonstrates
satisfactory
understanding and
skill
Points: 3
Developing
Beginning
Not completed
Demonstrates
Demonstrates little or not able to
be scored
some
or no understanding
understanding and
or skill
skill
Points: 1
Points: 2
Participant
collects data for
each assessment
in the format
provided, brings
data to sessions
in the format
provided, and
works with
grade-level team
to analyze it and
make
instructional
decisions based
on it.
Participant
collects data
for each
assessment,
and/or brings
data to sessions
as requested
and works with
grade-level
team to analyze
it and/or make
instructional
decisions based
on it.
Participant
Data not
brings
brought to
incomplete or
session.
limited data and
does not
contribute to
analysis and
instructional
decision
making.
Participant
works
collaboratively
with their gradelevel team to
develop
standards-based
lessons and/or
and formative
Participant
works
collaboratively
with gradelevel team to
develop
standardsbased lessons
and/or
Participant
develops
standards-based
lessons and/or
formative
assessments.
Participant may
submit these to
coach for
Few or no
lessons
and/or
formative
assessments
completed
and/or
submitted.
submit to coach for
feedback.
Goal 3 Outcomes:
Participants will
submit feedback on
lesson and formative
assessment
implementation to
their coach.
Goal 4 Outcomes:
Participants will
prepare and
implement
standards-based
lessons as requested
and engage in
monthly coaching
and follow-up
conversations
monthly
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assessments in assessments in formative
feedback.
the format
the format
assessments.
provided.
provided.
Participant may
Participant
Participant
submit these to
submits these submits these to coach for
to coach for
coach for
feedback.
feedback.
feedback.
Participant
submits
written
feedback on
lesson and
formative
assessment
implementatio
n to coach for
feedback.
Participant
reflects on
feedback
provided and
makes changes
needed.
Participant
submits written
feedback on
lesson and/or
formative
assessment
implementation
to coach for
feedback.
Participant
reflects on
feedback
provided and
makes changes
needed.
Participant
submits oral
feedback on
lesson and/or
formative
assessment
implementation
to coach for
feedback.
Participant
No feedback
submits brief
submitted.
oral feedback on
lesson and/or
formative
assessment
implementation
to coach for
feedback.
Participant
prepares
standardsbased lessons
as requested.
Participant
implements
standardsbased lessons
during
monthly
coaching visits
and engages in
follow-up
conversations
monthly where
new goals will
be set and
implemented
Participant
prepares
standards-based
lessons as
requested.
Participant
implements
standards-based
lessons as
requested for
monthly
coaching visits
and engages in
follow-up
conversations
monthly
Participant
prepares
standardsbased lessons.
Participant
implements
standardsbased lessons
as requested for
monthly
coaching visits
and engages in
follow-up
conversations
monthly
Participant
prepares
standards-based
lessons.
Participant
implements
standards-based
lessons as
requested for
less than
monthly
coaching visits
and engages in
follow-up
conversations
No
standardsbased lessons
prepared or
delivered or
less than
three
coaching
visits
conducted.
Goal 5 OutcomesOption B Only
Participants will:
a.Select and
sequence standards.
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a.Participant a. Participant
a. Participant
selects and
selects and
selects
sequences
sequences
standards but
standards for standards for the does not
the year.
year.
sequence
Participant
them..
provides a
written
rationale for
decisions
made.
a. Participant
selects some
standards but
not all are
included.
a. Standards
are not
selected and
not
sequenced.
b.Unwrap standards,
develop essential
questions and
enduring
understandings for
each unit
b.Participant
accurately
unwraps
standards,
develops
meaningful
and standardsbased essential
questions and
enduring
understanding
s for each unit.
b. Participant
accurately
unwraps
standards, and
develops
standards-based
essential
questions and
enduring
understandings
for each unit.
b.Participant
unwraps
standards, and
develops
standardsbased essential
questions and
enduring
understandings
for each unit
b.Participant
unwraps
standards, or
develops
standards-based
essential
questions and
enduring
understandings
for each unit
b. Participant
does not
unwrap
standard or
develop
standardsbased
essential
questions
and enduring
understandin
gs for each
unit.
c, Create pre and
post-assessments and
performance tasks
for each unit..
c. Participant
creates
standardsbased pre and
postassessments
and multiple
standardsbased
performance
tasks for each
unit
c. Participant
creates
standards-based
pre and postassessments and
standards-based
performance
tasks for each
unit..
c. .Participant
creates
standardsbased pre and
postassessments or
standardsbased
performance
tasks for each
unit.
c. Participant
creates
standards-based
pre and postassessments or
standards-based
performance
tasks for some
units.
c. Participant
does not
create
standardsbased pre
and postassessments
or
performance
tasks for
each unit.
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Participation
Requirement

NOTE: Do not include
attendance as criterion in
the scoring; 100%
attendance is required for
all levels of credit.
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Reflects 15

--------------This criterion is either met or not
collaborative hours
met. --------------
completed per each
credit.
Grading for Option A:
A = 16 to 14
B = 13 to 13
C = 12 to 11
D = 10 to 10
F=9
Grading for Option B:
A = 28 – 25
B = 24-22
C = 21-20
D = 19-17
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Does not reflect
15 collaborative
hours completed
per each credit.