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Deconstruction Continued

Work Session

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Alliance Charter Academy

Winter 2022

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• Continue the implementation plan to move towards guaranteed and viable across K-12
• Provide a guided practice to deconstruct priority standards
• Provide opportunities to ask and answer questions

OBJECTIVES FOR THE DAY

Norms Reminders

• Pull your own learning wagon.
• Remember the two ears, one mouth rule.
• Recognize we are all here for the same reason... students!
• Work thoughtfully, yet efficiently by using your decision rule consistently.
• Manage expectations around consensus.

What is Deconstruction?

The process teams engage in to build clarity about the standard through collaboration by breaking it down into student-friendly learning targets.

Deconstructing Standards

1. Write down the FULL standard.
2. What is the type of target?
1. (Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)
3. What are the nouns? (Define as needed)
4. What are the verbs? (Define as needed)
5. What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
6. What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
7. Write targets in student-friendly language

• Knowledge Targets: Factual information, procedural knowledge, and conceptual understandings underpinning each discipline
• Reasoning Targets: Thought processes students are to learn to do well within a range of subjects
• Skill Targets: Demonstration or physical skill-based performance is at the heart of the learning
• Product Targets: Where creation of a product is the focus of the learning. Specifications for quality of the product itself are the focus of teaching and assessment
• Disposition Targets: Attitudes, motivations, and interests that affect students’ approach to learning

Five Types of Learning Targets

• If a standard is knowledge, then…
• If a standard is reasoning, then…
• If a standard is a skill, then…
• If a standard is a product, then…

As You Deconstruct Standards

Note: Disposition can both stand alone or be paired with any other target type

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Remember If...Then...

Target Type Practice

Using the targets in the envelope, sort them into the 5 types of targets.

Time to Practice

1. Write down the FULL standard
2. What is the Type of Target?

(Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)

• What are the Nouns? (Define as needed)
• What are the Verbs? (Define as needed)�Note: The next steps will depend on the target type. Remember the arrow!
• What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
• What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
• Write Targets in Student Friendly Language

Check Yourself

Don’t burn out… you can use your resources to see if you missed anything.

Make sure the full standard is covered!

Google Chaos

The deconstructing template is a scaffold for breaking down the standard into student friendly learning targets.

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https://bit.ly/Deconstruction_ACA

https://bit.ly/Priority_Standards_ACA

Learning Progressions

“A learning progression is a carefully sequenced set of building blocks that students must master en route to mastering a more distant curricular aim.”

• James Popham

Deconstruction Standards

1. Write down the FULL standard.
2. What is the type of target?
1. (Knowledge, Reasoning, Skills, Product, Disposition)
3. What are the nouns? (Define as needed)
4. What are the verbs? (Define as needed)
5. What are the Knowledge Targets that underpin the reasoning?
6. What are the Reasoning Targets?* Skills?* Products?*
7. Write targets in student-friendly language

Next Steps

Continue to Deconstruct and create your learning targets for each priority standard with your PLC.

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Coming Soon… Make a plan for who is responsible for which standards/learning targets and communicate that plan!