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1. How are these teachers helping students identify what they need to learn?
2. How do the teachers know the students can identify what they need to learn?
Effective Relationships
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1. How is this teacher helping students identify what they need to learn?
2. How does the teacher know that the students can identify what they need to learn?
Supportive Accountability
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5. Pick a date to meet with your colleague to share your reflection of the implementation.
6. After implementation: Did you reach the desired result with all your students? Reflect on the
implementation of your scale.
APPENDIX A:
SAMPLE STANDARDS
a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., euphemism, oxymoron) in context and analyze their role in the
text.
Science
Grade 2: Earth’s Systems
2-ESS2-1 Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the
shape of the land.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of solutions could include different designs of
dikes and windbreaks to hold back wind and water, and different designs for using shrubs, grass, and
trees to hold back the land.]
Middle School: Earth’s Place in the Universe
MS-ESS1-1 Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of
lunar phase, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons. [Clarification Statement: Examples of models
can be physical, graphical, or conceptual.]
Social Studies
Grades 3-5: Global Interconnections: Changing Spatial Patterns
D2.Geo.12.3-5 Explain how natural and human-made catastrophic events in one place affect people
living in other places.
Grades 6-8: Processes, Rules, and Laws
D2.Civ.11.6-8 Differentiate among procedures for making decisions in the classroom, school, civil
society, and local, state, and national government in terms of how civic purposes are intended.
Health
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services
to enhance health.
Pre-K- Grade 2:
3.2.1 Identify trusted adults and professionals who can help promote health.
Grades 3-5:
3.5.1 Identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services.
Grades 6-8:
3.8.1 Analyze the validity of health information, products, and services.
Grades 9-12:
3.12.1 Evaluate the validity of health information, products, and services.
APPENDIX B:
TAXONOMY TOOLS
Understanding:
Explain ideas or concepts; Comprehension:
state a problem in one’s own words
Identification of the critical or defining
(classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, attributes of knowledge
recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase)
Integrating • Symbolizing
Applying:
Use the information
(concept) in a new way
Evaluating:
Justify a stand or decision; making judgments
Knowledge Utilization:
(appraise, argue, defend, judge,
select, support, value, evaluate) Application or use of knowledge
to accomplish a specific task
Creating:
Construct a new product, Decision Making • Problem Solving •
point of view, or structure Experimenting • Investigating
Skill/Concept:
Engages mental process beyond habitual response
using information or conceptual knowledge - Requires Comprehension:
two or more steps
Identification of the critical or defining
(apply, categorize, determine cause and effect, classify, attributes of knowledge
collect and display, compare, distinguish, estimate,
graph, identify patterns, infer, interpret, make Integrating • Symbolizing
observations, modify, organize, predict, relate, sketch,
show, solve, summarize, use context clues)
Strategic Thinking:
Requires reasoning, developing plan or a sequence
Analysis:
of steps, some complexity, more than one possible
answer, higher level of thinking than previous 2 levels
Reasoned extensions of knowledge and generation
of new information not already processed
(apprise, assess, cite evidence, critique, develop a
logical argument, differentiate, draw conclusions,
Matching • Classifying • Analyzing Errors •
explain phenomena in terms of concepts, formulate,
Generalizing • Specifying
hypothesize, investigate, revise, use concepts to solve
non‐routine problems)
Extended Thinking:
Requires investigation, complex reasoning,
planning, developing, and thinking‐probably Knowledge Utilization:
over an extended period of time.
Longer time period is not an applicable factor Application or use of knowledge to
if work is simply repetitive and/or does not accomplish a specific task
require higher‐order thinking.
Decision Making • Problem Solving •
(analyze, apply concepts, compose, connect, create, Experimenting • Investigating
critique, defend, design, evaluate, judge, propose,
prove, support, synthesize)
* Some terms are classified at more than one level depending upon their application.
Marzano Taxonomy - Terms and Phrases, Question Stems, Products*
Mental
Taxonomy Level Terms and Phrases Question Stems Products
Process
associate; categorize; compare/
Matching contrast; correlate; create an
Identifying analogy or metaphor; differentiate;
similarities and discriminate; distinguish between; Distinguish between…
differences examine similarities and differences; Determine the reasonableness of…
link; match; open sort; relate Explain the relationship between… Blog post
How is ____ related to…? Comparison
Classifying How can you apply what you learned matrix
Identifying the arrange by; classify; closed sort; file;
to develop…? Database
superordinate group; identify a broader category;
How would you categorize…? Debate
and subordinate identify different types; organize; rank
categories How would you classify the type of…? Demonstration
Analysis: How would you compare/contrast…? Double bubble
assess; critique; determine the How would you organize and show…? map
Reasoned accuracy of; diagnose; edit; examine Make use of these facts to…? Essay
Analyzing Errors
extensions of Identifying logical a claim; evaluate; identify errors; Select facts that demonstrate… Interview
knowledge and or processing identify misunderstandings; identify Under what conditions would...? Log/Journal entry
generation of errors what is plausible/implausible; judge What conclusions can you draw…? Media product
new information the validity; revise What elements would you change in Review/Critique
- B5 -
- B6 -
Marzano Taxonomy - Terms and Phrases, Question Stems, Products*
Mental
Taxonomy Level Terms and Phrases Question Stems Products
Process
Decision Assess the value or importance of…?
Making choose from alternatives; decide; Formulate and test a theory for…?
Selecting between determine the best way; establish and How can you modify _____ in order
two or more
use criteria for; select the best among to…?
alternatives that Advertisement
initially appear the alternatives How can you overcome…?
Blog post
equal How will you determine…?
Board game
How will you decide…?
Debate
accomplish a goal with limiting How will you design…?
Decision-making
conditions; adapt and test; determine How will you improve…?
Problem matrix
a way to; develop a strategy to; How will you justify…?
Solving Essay
Overcoming identify how to problem solve; invent; How will you overcome…?
Illustration
an obstacle to a modify and try; overcome an obstacle; How will you prove…? Disprove…?
goal
Interview
propose a solution; recommend and How will you reach your goal under
Knowledge Media product
prove; resolve; solve these conditions…?
Utilization: Model
How will you solve _____ to achieve
Open-ended
Experimenting your goal…?
Application or response
Generating and based on observation, predict; How will you test…?
use of knowledge testing hypotheses
Panel
devise a way to test; experiment; Predict the outcome if…
to accomplish a to understand Poem
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APPENDIX C:
NOW YOU TRY ACTIVITIES
Standard E/S
Use the template on the next page to create targets from the standard(s).
1. List the essential skills (verbs + action phrases) needed to demonstrate the standard.
• The first step in unpacking standards is to break apart the essential skills needed to demonstrate
mastery in relation to the verbs previously identified. List each essential skill beginning with the
verb and include the words that relate to or convey the action implied. For standards with multiple
verbs, determine if the verbs indicate a new action or if they are used to describe a previously
mentioned process. Those that indicate a new action or skill should be listed as a separate learning
target.
3. I ntegrate the remaining knowledge and other basic processes to provide the underpinning necessary
to reach the essential skills.
• The essential knowledge (nouns) identified when unpacking the standard helps determine the
specific vocabulary students need to recognize and recall when demonstrating proficiency. New
terminology implied but not specifically listed in the standard should be added to the list of
Foundational Knowledge. Once the list is complete, the nouns associated with previous levels of
learning should be deleted or marked through. Only new terminology required by the standards
or previously introduced vocabulary applied in a new way should be included as a foundational
vocabulary target.
• Other basic processes required to support and provide the underpinning necessary to reach the
essential skills should be added as well. Care should be taken to ensure a clear and comprehensive
progression in thinking is created to reach the essential skills previously identified.
Organize the existing targets and create a cognitively complex learning target. Use the scale template on
the next page to consolidate all targets into a scale.
4. Use the taxonomy to designate Learning Goal Target(s) and Foundational Targets.
• Using the template on the previous page, designate the essential skills with the highest taxonomy
level (cognitive complexity) as the level 3.0 Learning Goal Targets. All other essential skills become
part of the Foundational Targets and will be placed at the 2.0 level of the scale.
Standard(s):
1.0 With help from the teacher, student has partial success with unit content.
0.0 Even with help, student has no success with unit content.
1.0 With help from the teacher, student has partial success with unit content.
0.0 Even with help, student has no success with unit content.
Make them
accessible
Relate instruction
to the target
Refer to the
learning progression
of the scale
How will you monitor that students know what they are learning?
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