Task Analysis Process: Steps 3 & 4

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Purposes of Steps 3 & 4

•  Identify what disciplinary practices and ELP standards relevant to task

•  Make links between disciplinary practices and ELP standards

•  Help choose which ELP standards to address and assess

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Task Analysis Process

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

MP1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

MP2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively

MP6. Attend to precision

MP7. Look for and make use of structure

MP8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning

SP1. Ask questions and define problems

SP3. Plan and carry out investigations

SP4. Analyze and interpret data

SP6. Construct explanations and design solutions

EP4. Build and present knowledge through research by integrating, comparing, and synthesizing ideas from text

EP5. Build upon the ideas of others and articulate their own clearly when working collaboratively

EP6. Use English structures to communicate context specific messages

EP7*. Use

technology and digital media strategically and capably

MP5. Use appropriate tools strategically

SP8. Obtain,

evaluate, and communicate

information

EP2. Produce clear and coherent writing

in which the development, organization,

and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

SP2. Develop and use models

MP4. Model with mathematics

SP5. Use mathematics and computational thinking

EP1. Support analysis of a range of grade-level complex texts with evidence

MP3 and EP3. Construct viable and valid arguments from evidence and critique reasoning of others

SP7. Engage in argument from evidence

Relationships and Convergences

EDUCATIONGRADUATE SCHOOL OF

Found in:1. CCSS for Mathematics (practices)2a. CCSS for ELA & Literacy (student capacity)2b. ELPD Framework (ELA “practices”)3. NGSS (science and engineering practices)

Notes: 1. MP1–MP8 represent CCSS

Mathematical Practices (p. 6–8).2. SP1–SP8 represent NGSS Science and

Engineering Practices.3. EP1–EP6 represent CCSS for ELA

“Practices” as defined by the ELPD Framework (p. 11).

4. EP7* represents CCSS for ELA student “capacity” (p. 7).

Suggested citation:Cheuk, T. (2013). Relationships and convergences among the mathematics, science, and ELA

practices. Refined version of diagram created by the Understanding Language Initiative for ELP Standards. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s) Step 2 Step 4 Step 1

Guiding Question

What  disciplinary  prac/ce(s)  are  most  relevant  to  this  task?  

Example Instructional Task  

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s) Step 2 Step 4 Step 1

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Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s) Step 2 Step 4 Step 1

Guiding Question Resources •  Core Disciplinary Practices PDF •  Interactive Correspondence between Practices, Tasks, and Functions

PDF

What  disciplinary  prac/ce(s)  are  most  relevant  to  this  task?  

Example Instructional Task  

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s) Step 2 Step 4 Step 1

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Step 2: Identify Task Demands Step 3 Step 4 Step 1

What do students need to know and do in terms of……?

•  ELA Practice 1 –  Support analyses of a range of grade-level complex texts with

evidence •  ELA Practice 3

–  Construct valid arguments from evidence and critique the reasoning of others

•  ELA Practice 5 –  Build upon the ideas of others and articulate their own when

working collaboratively •  ELA Practice 6

–  Use English structures to communicate context-specific messages

Identify the Relevant Disciplinary Practices

Step 1 Step 4 Step 2 Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s) Step 2 Step 4 Step 1

Guiding Question Resources •  Core Disciplinary Practices PDF •  Interactive Correspondence between Practices, Tasks, and Functions

PDF

What  disciplinary  prac/ce(s)  are  most  relevant  to  this  task?  

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 2 Step 3 Step 1

Guiding Question Resources •  The ELP Standards •  Alternative Organization of Standards •  The K-12 Practices Matrix

•  What English Language Proficiency Standards are reflected in this task? •  Which of these ELP standards do you feel comfortable measuring or

intend to assess?

Example Instructional Task  

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 2 Step 3 Step 1

 

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Disciplinary Practices

ELP Standards

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 3

•  EP1: Support analyses of a range of grade-level complex texts with evidence

•  EP3: Construct valid arguments from evidence and critique the reasoning of others

•  EP5: Build upon the ideas of others and articulate their own when working collaboratively

•  EP6: Use English structures to communicate context-specific messages

Disciplinary Practices

ELP Standards

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 3

•  ELP1: Construct meaning through oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-level appropriate listening, reading and viewing

•  ELP2: Participate in grade-level appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas and analyses, responding to peer, audience or reader comments and questions

•  ELP4: Construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

•  EP1: Support analyses of a range of grade-level complex texts with evidence

•  EP3: Construct valid arguments from evidence and critique the reasoning of others

•  EP5: Build upon the ideas of others and articulate their own when working collaboratively

•  EP6: Use English structures to communicate context-specific messages

ELP Standards

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 3

•  ELP1: Construct meaning through oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-level appropriate listening, reading and viewing

•  ELP4: Construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

•  ELP2: Participate in grade-level appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas and analyses, responding to peer, audience or reader comments and questions

•  ELP8: Determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text

•  ELP10: Make accurate use of Standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 2 Step 3 Step 1

Guiding Question Resources •  The ELP Standards •  Alternative Organization of Standards •  The K-12 Practices Matrix

•  What English Language Proficiency Standards are reflected in this task? •  Which of these ELP standards do you feel comfortable measuring or

intend to assess?

ELP Standards

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4: Identify ELP Standards Step 3

•  ELP1: Construct meaning through oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-level appropriate listening, reading and viewing

•  ELP2: Participate in grade-level appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas and analyses, responding to peer, audience or reader comments and questions

•  ELP4: Construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

•  ELP8: Determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text

•  ELP10: Make accurate use of Standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing

Modalities Domains Corresponding ELP Standards

Receptive Listening and Reading

1 construct meaning from oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-appropriate listening, reading, and viewing

8 determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text

Productive Speaking and Writing 3 speak and write about grade-appropriate complex literary and informational texts and topics

4 construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

7 adapt language choices to purpose, task, and audience when speaking and writing

Interactive Listening, reading, speaking and writing

2 participate in grade-appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas, and analyses, responding to peer, audience, or reader comments and questions

5 conduct research and evaluate and communicate findings to answer questions or solve problems

6 analyze and critique the arguments of others orally and in writing

Alternative Organization of the Standards

•  ELP1: Construct meaning through oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-level appropriate listening, reading and viewing

•  ELP2: Participate in grade-level appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas and analyses, responding to peer, audience or reader comments and questions

•  ELP4: Construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

•  ELP8: Determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text

•  ELP10: Make accurate use of Standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing

Modalities Domains Corresponding ELP Standards

Receptive Listening and Reading

1 construct meaning from oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-appropriate listening, reading, and viewing

8 determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text

Productive Speaking and Writing

3 speak and write about grade-appropriate complex literary and informational texts and topics

4 construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence

7 adapt language choices to purpose, task, and audience when speaking and writing

Interactive Listening, reading, speaking and writing

2 participate in grade-appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas, and analyses, responding to peer, audience, or reader comments and questions

5 conduct research and evaluate and communicate findings to answer questions or solve problems

6 analyze and critique the arguments of others orally and in writing

Step 4: Identify ELP Standards

Step 1: Examine & Identify Appropriate Instructional Task

Step 3: Identify Disciplinary Practice(s)

Task Analysis Process

Step 2: Identify Task Demands

Language Analytical Skills Content Knowledge

Reflection Questions

•  How do Steps 3 and 4 of the task analysis process build on the previous steps?

•  What lingering questions do you still have about the task analysis process, particularly in respect to the English Language Proficiency Standards?

•  Can you envision engaging in this task analysis process as part of your professional learning?

•  In what venues (e.g. professional learning community, grade-level planning meetings, individually) can you imagine using this process?