| Tier 1 Expectation |
- Collaboration
- Students are taught collaborative roles and practice roles using
teacher-guided activities
- Research & Information Skills
- Students are given a selection of topics, questions or problems to
research and are directed through the information access, analysis,
and synthesis processes
- Students differentiate information & prioritize subtopics
- Students demonstrate experimentation or discovery
- Students interpret information
- Communication Skills
- Students use text, pictures, and oral presentation to communicate
to appropriate audience
- Check/edit one's own work
- Logically justify a position.
- Write information in clear, logical, and complete manner
- Choose words/manner of expression appropriate to the workplace
- Character Education: Formal instruction in:
- Teamwork,
- Communicating with Respect & with Integrity
- Responsibility & Service
- Time Management
- Reflection & self-evaluation
- Integration of Technology
- Teacher Assisted: Students research or collect data using Internet or electronic
media (ex: E-mail, Scanner, Digital Camera, CD ROM)
- Rubric (Management)
- Students are given a differentiated, comprehensive, grade-level
& TEKS appropriate,
skills-building rubric for expectations
- Authentic Assessment
- Students demonstrate mastery of content by creating a final
artifact (Ex: paper or oral report)
- Interactive Principles
- Students do self-evaluation & project evaluation
- Parents are involved in the evaluation process
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| Tier 2 Expectation |
- Collaboration
- Students acclimated to collaborative groups & projects are
enriched by group activities.
- Check/edit one another's work
- Research & Information Skills
- Students are guided into appropriate selection of topic, question
or problem to research and are well versed in the information access,
- Analysis includes evaluation of resources, data validation,
charting, graphing, categorizing
- Synthesis process includes application & accountability to
accuracy and copyright issues
- Communication Skills
- Students use multimedia presentations to communicate project for
appropriate audience
- Logically justify a position.
- Write information in clear, logical, and complete manner
- Choose words/manner of expression appropriate to the workplace
- Refines work ("wordsmithing")
- Exhibits Creativity
- Character Education: Accountability growth plans for:
- Teamwork & Negotiation Skills
- Time Management
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Integrity
- Fairness
- Integration of Technology
- Teacher/Student/Student Collaboration: Students research or collect data using Internet or electronic
media (ex: Scanner, Digital Camera, CD ROM) -- (INPUT)
- Students use technology to organize, analyze (PROCESS) & communicate
project (OUTPUT)
- Rubric (Management)
- Students help build a challenging, differentiated, grade-level
& TEKS appropriate rubric
for quality and productivity
- Authentic Assessment
- Students demonstrate mastery of content by creating a quality
artifacts for portfolios that is both unique and professional
- Interactive Principles
- Students do a self-evaluation & project evaluation
- Students elicit experts to gain input at each level of artifact
development
- Parents involved in the program planning, implementation &
evaluation
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| Tier 3 Expectation |
- Collaboration
- Students divide group into tasks for accountability
- Students develop techniques for time & resource management
- Students engage each other in questioning, exploring, and
discussing, and challenge each other to enhance project
- Creativity is enhanced by the synergism of the group
- Research & Information Skills
- Student defines topic, identifies question or problem to research
on the basis of curiosity
- Information is accessed through multiple avenues (interviews,
experts, Internet research, current news media, archives, observation,
etc.)
- Utilization of partners or outside entities (Hospitals,
Universities, Agencies, Experts)
- Analysis includes evaluation of resources, data validation,
charting, graphing, categorizing, simulation, and prioritizing
- Synthesis includes service-oriented and relevant application,
accountability to accuracy and copyright issues
- Students improvise by creating a unique (set of) solution(s) to
the research problem
- Communication Skills
- Students prepare a creative & professional-level publication,
presentation
(etc. community newsletter, Web site, school board presentation,
conference workshop)
- Publication of the problem solution, new information, or
application using news media and/or Web for appropriate audience with
appropriate complexity
- Logically justify a position.
- Proposes/examines different options.
- Suggests modifications to existing systems.
- Develops new or alternative systems to improve performance.
- Character Education:
- Journaling of Time Management, Teamwork, Productivity
- Peer evaluation for Fairness and Resource Management
- Expert critique of quality and Integrity
- Enjoyment of the refinement and problem-solving processes
- Appreciation for the work of others
- Valuing the critique of peers
- Valuing creativity and uniqueness
- Integration of Technology
- Technology is a transparent tool competently used in all aspects
of the project
- Students develop professional-level skills & technical
expertise
- Students involved in peer mentoring & skills-sharing
- Students are self-regulated and self-taught in the use of new
tools and software
- Rubric (Self-Management)
- Students utilize experts to build a professional level rubric for
a quality & innovative project
- Students build growth plans from mastery deficiencies.
- Authentic Assessment
- Students demonstrate mastery of content by creating a final
artifact that is evaluated by group of professionals
- Interactive Principles
- Students do a self-evaluation & project evaluation
- Students see project as on-going and provide open-ended
interactivity for global input into the "growing global
database".
- Students recognize trends and strive for creative excellence
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(c) 2.10.2000 Joy Rousseau
Last Edited:
03/02/04
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