Standards Walls

TIP Charts

Outcome: Motivating Students!!!

•Make standards and learning goals explicit to students.

Chapter 2:Transforming Standards into Explicit

Learning Goals

Explicit learning goals are fundamental to learning.

What are the disadvantages of simply posting standards?

I Can Statements/Learning Goals

A Typical Day for Students• 1. Describe how heat can be transferred through matter by the collision of atoms

(conduction) or through space (radiation). In a liquid or gas, currents will facilitate the transfer of heat (convection).• 2. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War, include slavery,

states’ rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, election of 1860…• 3. Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow, organize ideas, concepts, and

information into broader categories; include formatting, graphics, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.• 4. Determine how societal influences can affect physical health and describe their impact

on emotional and social health. Describe the health-related consequences that participation in risky health behaviors can have on the emotional, physical, and social health of adolescents.• 5. Describe qualitatively the functional relationship between two quantities by analyzing a

graph (e.g. where the function is increasing or decreasing, linear or nonlinear). Sketch a graph that exhibits the qualitative features of a function that has been described verbally.

Non-Examples of Standards Walls

Steps in Creating Standards Walls:

1. Create or state the standard’s or unit’s essential question or “I Can” statement.2. Articulate learning goals in progression around the standard’s or unit’s essential question.3. Identify starting point with some type of symbol (e.g. Arrow) that moves as goals are being taught.

Large Amount of Detailed Text

Reconfigure into concept maps showing

the progression of learning

Explicit learning goals that are reachable

Components of Standards Walls:1. Concept Map – page 252. TIP Chart – page 293. Student Work – page 32

Standards Walls Use Walls as Instructional Tools

Standard Wall for Science

More Standards Walls

Standards Wall for Math

Writing Standards Wall

Social Studies Standards Wall

TIP Journals

Walls: Ongoing TIP Chart

Student’s Work on Standards Wall

Student’s Work onStandards Walls

Let’s Try One with a 5th Grade Social Studies Standard!!!!

• 9.) Explain how inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation led to the creation and eventual ratification of the Constitution of the United States.• • Describing major ideas, concepts, and limitations of the Constitution of the

United States, including duties and powers of the three branches of government • • Identifying factions in favor of and opposed to ratification of the Constitution

of the United States • Example: Federalist and Anti-Federalist factions• • Identifying main principles in the Bill of Rights • • Analyzing the election of George Washington as President of the United States

for its impact on the role of president in a republic

Implementation?•Read page 33 – Reflections on Standards Walls

•Advantages?•Disadvantages?•Will it work for my school?

Reflections on Explicit Learning Goals:

• Learning begins with goals• Feedback dependent on learning goals• Grades are based on learning goals• Academic success dependent on understanding learning expectations• See patterns of understandings; not isolated activities

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