Graduation Portfolio Modules

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Modules

Module 1 What is GPS?

Module 2 What are Performance Outcomes?

Module 3 How are Performance Outcomes Connected to Our Standards?

Module 4 What kind of Instruction Supports our Work?

Module 5 How do I Design Performance Tasks?

Module 6 How do we Design Units that Support this Work?

Module 7 What makes a High Quality Unit?

Module 8 How do we give Meaningful Feedback to Students?

Module 9 How do we connect this GPS work to our work across the network?

Module 10 How do Students Manage the Process?

Instructional Model

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Objectives

Participants will be able to answer:• What kind of instruction supports this work?

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Backplan from the Graduate Profile

• Review the graduate profile and performance outcomes– What kind of work

should students be producing?

– What kind of lessons should students participate in?

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What kind of instruction supports implementation?

Balancing direct instruction with opportunities to explore and investigate open-ended questions

• Simulations• Community engagement activities• Projects and investigations• Service-learning• Open ended questions for investigation

A focus on relevance and taking action

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Examples of Essential Questions

• What does it mean to be a citizen?• What is art?• What makes a system?• How do numbers represent the world?• When is something alive?• What makes something true?

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Simulations and Immersions

What are some examples of immersions and simulations?

• Model United Nations• Language Immersions• Cultural Exchanges• Role Play• Real-time Problem Solving

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Project-Based Learning

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an inquiry-base approach to learning that engages students in gaining essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended inquiry process structured around a complex essential question and carefully designed products and tasks.

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Basic Elements of a PBL

A Project-Based Learning includes these basic elements:(1) an extended time frame(2) collaboration(3) inquiry, investigation, and research(4) the construction of an artifact or performance of a consequential task.

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Why use this model?

Allows students to explore real-world problems and challenges through working and cooperating with students in small groups.

Majority of time is spent on active and engaged learning, which studies show helps students retain a deeper knowledge of subjects studied.

Helps students develop organizational skills, build collaborative skills, and become better communicators.

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Essentials of PBL

What is the Essential Question?What 21st C. Skills / Global Competencies

will be developed?What are the student expectations?How will the project be assessed?What resources are needed?What are knowledge and skills that

students need to be successful?

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Classroom Practices

• What would it look like on a regular basis?• What would an observer be able to observe in

the classroom?• What support do you need to maximize

student engagement during an instructional block?

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Classroom Follow-up

• How will we communicate these ideas to the student?– Advisory?– Content area courses?– Schoolwide?

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Resources

Buck Institute for Education / Project Based LearningVideos, Tools, Research to help teachers implement PBLhttp://www.bie.org/

EdutopiaCore Concept – Project Based Learninghttp://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning

PBL – OnlineResources to design and manage high quality projects for

middle and secondary school students.http://pbl-online.org/

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