Linking Standards
EDT 3470 – Final Team Projects
Presentation Outline
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Standards Basics Review
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Pre-Service Teacher ~ EDT 3470
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What are standards?
Why are standards important?
Course goal
Your charge and duty
Final Team Website
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Linking Standards
Standards Basic Review
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What are standards?
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Standards spell out what students are expected to
learn in each grade and each subject.
Why are standards important?
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When teachers and principals know what students
are expected to know, they unleash the power of
their own creativity and have the freedom to
innovate. (ed.gov – Sect. Anne Duncan, 2010)
Standards and You
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Each state Department of Education creates
standards for schools within the state.
These standards become the basis for the way
teachers are trained, what they teach and what is on
state standardized tests that students take.
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How you are trained (Pre-Service and PD)
What you teach…even how you teach
Basis of your instruction
Student Assessment
 Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP)
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Content Area - MGLECs
Pre-Service Teacher
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In relation to EDT 3470, everything you have
covered this semester was based around
“meeting or exceeding the 2008 ISTE
National Educational Technology Standards
for Teachers.”
Your Charge – Team Web Site
Team Web Site
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The end of the semester Team Web Site is
an accumulation of items for your ProjectBased Learning topic and requires team
members to work together during the last
weeks of the semester.
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All projects created in this semester will be
attached to your team web site.
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Exception: Web evaluations – only web site used for
those
Team Web Site
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Goal: target for this web site is for teachers.
Will contain information and resources on
how to implement project-based learning,
walking students through the process of a a
specific project, your PBL. The web site
should be developed in a clear, logical way
with activities, examples, etc. (Week 11 – EDT3470 Web Site)
Example Web Sites
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Welcome to the Fascinating World of
Weather Website
Classroom Dinner
Exploring Weather
Team Web Site
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What you will NOT do…
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Link only your lesson plan standards
What you will DO…
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Link all standards from MGLCE: Michigan Grade
Level Content Expectations, and ISTE: National
Educational Technology Standards for Students:
The Next Generation that your web site meets
Linking Standards
Why is this important?
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Again, everything has a base, even your book …
Teachers using your web site need to know what
standards you based all of your projects and
lessons from.
Assures that your instruction is based off of clearcut goals and objectives that will aid in insuring
your students learning process and success; and
will provide the same for other teachers
How will I do this?
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You will need to go back with each one of
your assignments and new ideas (which was
introduced in lab). You need to find the
standards that align with assignments and
are the foundation of the new ideas to be
implemented.
Taskstream! Taskstream! Taskstream!
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Ex. MGLECs are categorized by Grade Level ->
Subject Area -> Core Subject Areas -> Disciplines
and Expectations
How will I do this?
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PBL – Butterfly Garden
Virtual Penpals and Google Docs
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Skype, email, and IM to communicate with a 3rd grade
class in Mexico
Butterfly Habitat and Different types of butterflies
 Compare and Contrast
Life Cycle of a Butterfly Presentations
Exchanging Student-Replicas of Butterflies
(adapted from Week 3 – PBL Examples )
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Taskstream
Creating Original Resources
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Numbers and Operations
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Explore number patterns N.MR.00.10 Create,
describe, and extend simple number patterns.
Compose and decompose
numbers N.MR.00.08 Describe and make
drawings to represent situations/stories involving
putting together and taking apart for totals up to
10; use finger and object counting.
Creating Original Resources
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You will be required to create an original teaching resource. Create a lesson from:
MI- Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations Subject: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Grade: FOURTH GRADE Strand: SPEAKING Topic: Spoken Discourse Expectation:
S.DS.04.01 Engage in interactive, extended discourse to socially construct meaning (e.g., book
clubs, literature circles, partnerships, or other conversation protocols).
Expectation: S.DS.04.03 Respond to multiple text types by reflecting, making connections, taking
a position and sharing understandings.
Expectation: S.DS.04.04 Plan and deliver presentations or reports focusing on a key question
using an informational organizational pattern (e.g., descriptive, problem/solution, cause and
effect), supportive facts, and details reflecting and emphasizing facial expressions, hand gestures,
and body language.
Subject: Social Studies Grade: Grade Four: United States Studies Strand: Economics
Topic: E1 Market Economy
Expectation: 4.E1.0.1 Identify questions economists ask in examining the United States (e.g.,
What is produced? How is it produced? How much is produced? Who gets what is produced?
What role does the government play in the economy?).
Expectation: 4.E1.0.3 Describe how positive and negative incentives influence behavior in a
market economy.
Expectation: 4. E1.0.4 Explain how price affects decisions about purchasing goods and services
(substitute goods).
Expectation: 4.E1.0.6 Explain how competition among buyers results in higher prices and
competition among sellers results in lower prices (e.g., supply, demand).
Questions?
Conclusion
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Don’t take anything you learned this year for
granted
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Critics argue that having rigid standards and tests
discourages schools from being innovative and
inspiring creativity in their students. Because the
emphasis is on basic skills such as reading and
math, subjects that are not tested, such as art and
history, get less emphasis in the classroom.
But through PBL, you are able to be innovative
and inspire creativity in your students in every
area
Today’s lecture was:
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Interesting and relevant
B.
Just interesting
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Just relevant
D.
Uninteresting and irrelevant