The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal

Get to know which practices related to curriculum, instruction, and assessment are essential to make learning the goal for every student! You'll learn how to

• Create learning targets that are scalable and transferable within and across units
• Develop instructional scales for each learning target
• Design non-scored practice activities and assessments
• Introduce and model skills that will be assessed and design tasks that allow students to use these skills
• Differentiate instruction and activities based on data from various types of assessments
• Maintain a gradebook that tracks summative achievement of learning targets, and score assessments accordingly
• Communicate progress clearly and efficiently with students and families

Author: Emily A. Rinkema, Stan Williams
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Published: 09/14/2018
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781544324203

About the Author
Rinkema, Emily A.: - Emily Rinkema is currently an instructional coach in the Champlain Valley School District (CVSD) in Vermont, spending half of her time supporting standards-based instruction and learning at the high school and the other half supporting the middle schools in their transition to standards- based learning (SBL). She also code- signed and coteaches Think Tank, a class that puts high school students at the center of the educational transformation happening around them. Emily began teaching English and humanities at Champlain Valley Union High School twenty years ago and was inspired by the progressive philosophy of the school and community from the start. While teaming with Stan Williams in a heterogeneous tenth-grade humanities class, they became obsessed with differentiated instruction and SBL, applied for a sabbatical, and began down the path that would lead to instructional coaching. Emily is the cofounder of the Vermont Standards-Based Learning (VTSBL) Collective, a grassroots organization that brings together educators interested in improving education through SBL. She has organized, led, and participated in the annual symposium sponsored by the VTSBL Collective and has presented about SBL at schools around Vermont and at the 2018 ASCD Empower18 Conference. Emily has a master's degree in English from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and is still involved with the Bread Loaf Teacher Network and, along with Stan, is very active professionally on social media through @ CVULearns. Williams, Stan: - Stan Williams has taught and worked in the Champlain Valley School District (CVSD) in Vermont for over twenty years. He is currently an instructional coach for the district and spends his time supporting standards-based learning (SBL) and instruction at the high school and the four district middle schools. Besides his work as an instructional coach, Stan co-teaches a class called Think Tank, which has students examining education and learning and has kids at the heart of educational transformation.