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Unpacking Standards

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Moving from Content


Standards to Student-
Friendly Learning Targets
Unpacking Standards
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Why “Unpack” Standards?


● Standards are sometimes written as
overarching and often complex statements
that can be interpreted in different ways.

●  It is important that teachers share


common understanding about goals and
targets of a standard.
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● “Unpacking” is a technique teachers can use


to make sense of standards and then create
focused learning targets to make them
actionable.

● Unpacking standards is also called


deconstructing or unwrapping standards.
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Collective
analysis for
Shared Unpacking a standard is a way
Understanding to collectively analyze a
standards to ensure shared
UNPACKIN understanding of the learning
G
goal. It is also a process of
STANDARD
S deconstruction to clearly
identify the skills and concepts
Deconstruction
represented in the standard
to Identify Skills (Ainsworth & Viegut, 2006).
and Concepts
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Once standards are unpacked, teachers can do three


important things:
1. Craft their vision of mastery for specific standards.
2. Align lesson plans and accompanying resources to
that vision.
3. As they teach and report progress, create student-
friendly learning objectives to better communicate
required skills to students and community
stakeholders.
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The Unpacking process


(Four Key Steps to Unpacking Standard)
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Step 1: Identify Key Concepts and Skills


● Identify what students need to know and what they need to do. We like to
highlight nouns (content) in blue and verbs (skills) in green.
For example:
Evaluate the dokyu-film based on the teacher's criteria

Step 2: Identify learning Target Type


● Determine which concepts are content/knowledge targets, reasoning/cognitive
targets, skill/performance targets, and product target.
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Step 3: Determine Big Ideas


● List the conceptual understandings that students discover during the learning
process (the ah-ha! moments).

Step 4: Write Essential Questions


● Guide classroom instruction and assessment, write open-ended questions to help
stimulate the student interest and make new connections.
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What should I know?


Example ● Lodging availability
● Location of area restaurants
1: ● Day/Night temperature at location
Unpackin
What should I be able to do?
g ● Swim
a Simple ● Locate the surf shop
● Apply sunscreen evenly
Destination trip
Standard
101.1
What should I understand?
● Recognize changes in tide
● Assess surroundings for safety
● Devise a plan if stranded at sea on catamaran
Example 2:
Unpacking a
Complex Standard
Remark E. Tahil
Step 1: Identify Key Concepts
and Skills
Organize and plan for a trip to the beach.
Step 2: Identify Learning
Targets
Knowledge Targets Types
Reasoning Targets
Define argument Evaluate an argument
Define claim Distinguish between
Define evidence supported & unsupported
claims
Skill and Performance Product Targets
Targets
Trace an argument in a text Not applicable for this
standard
Step 2: Identify Learning
Targets Types
Identifying specific targets within a standard:
1. provides clear direction for instructional planning;
2. helps to focus on important content that students should know;
3. helps to focus as to what skills that students should develop
Step 3: Determine Big Ideas
Examples of Big Ideas for our standard:
1. Presenting an argument with evidence is more persuasive
than sharing and opinion.
2. Unsupported claims can lead to an invalid argument.
3. Identifying a claim supported with evidence is a skill
applicable to all areas of life.
Step 3: The Essential Questions
(ah-ha! Moment)
Questions are/can be:
1. Open-ended opportunities
2. Used at the beginning of instruction on a learning target or
during instruction to advance thinking process.
Step 3: The Essential Questions
(ah-ha! Moment)
Examples of Essential Questions for our standard include:
1. Why is evidence important?
2. Why do we need to be able to recognize an argument that
has support versus one that doesn’t?
3. When do we use argumentation in daily life?
Step 3: The Essential Questions
(ah-ha! Moment)
Important points to remember when using Essential Questions:
• keep them truly open-ended.
• craft questions to have more than one possible response or to
generate discussion when different or confliction ideas are
presented.
Get Unpacking!
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Thank you!

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