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November

Meetings Set for Content Standards Writing Teams

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!

 

We have set up two Content Standards Writing Team Meetings.  One in January and one in February.  Margaret will contact each content area to confirm who is coming in January.

 

We will meet on January 22, 2009 in the OPI 1201 Conference Room from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.  I have reserved a block of  sleeping rooms for the evening of January 21 at the Red Lion Colonial Hotel, 2310 Colonial Drive.  Please call them at 443-2100 before December 31, 2008 to reserve your room.  

 

The second Content Standards Writing Team meeting will be February 19, 2009 from 9:00 and to 3:00 pm in the OPI 1201 Conference Room.   I have reserved a block of sleeping rooms for the evening of February 18, 2009 at the Red Lion Colonial Hotel as well.  Please call them at 443-2100 and guarantee your room no later than January 19, 2009.

 

All ABLE teams should plan on attending;  ESL may come if they wish to have this work time.

 

Reimbursements and substitute pay will be the same as the last meeting.

 

Thanks to everyone for their commitment to this project.

Carol Flynn

September

8/08/08   

Things to Bring to DQ

Team Members,

As you can imagine, I am very excited to begin the content standards process. My work with our facilitator continues, and as you might expect, I did ask what you would need to bring to the conference. At this point in time, we would ask those of you that have access to a laptop to please bring it along. We will be using laptops on the 17th in the content standards break out room.

Below is a quick overview of the work we will do on the 16th and 17th:

DAY 1: September 16^th

Overall Workshop Goal for Day 1

The goal of this presentation is to increase the awareness and knowledge of standards-based education and to recognize the importance of developing content standards for Montana’s adult learners. This will be achieved through a slide presentation with hand-outs and a participative discussion.

Specific Workshop Objectives-Day 1

• Recognize the importance of  standards-based education
• Identify the goals of standards-based education for adults in Montana
• Define and differentiate commonly used terms (content standards, indicators or benchmarks, performance standards)

DAY 2: September 17^th

Overall Workshop Goal for Day 2

The goal of this workshop is to assist the writing teams in the standards writing process. This will be achieved by:

• Organizing and orientating subject area writing teams for coordinating, developing and reviewing content standards
• Delegating team leaders who will be responsible for coordinating their content area teams
• Brainstorming how to adapt or develop content standards after review existing content standards in other states that use TABE as their assessment system
• Reviewing resources that will guide in the development of the standards
• Identifying potential challenges and solutions to obstacles so that contingency plans can be prepared if difficulties arise during the standards writing process
• Developing an action plan for estimating the timeframe when each subject area’s first draft of the content standards will be completed

Specific Workshop Objectives-Day 2

• Appoint a team leader for each writing team who will be responsible for coordinating the team
• Determine the specific roles of each team participant
• Decide which resources need to be reviewed before the standards writing process begins along with a timeframe for reviewing these resources
• Determine how often teams should meet during the standards writing process  which should include the logistics (when, where, how long)
• Form a consensus on what needs to be aligned to Montana’s adult education content standards (NRS, GED test, TABE, college placement tests, EFF)
• Identify  potential challenges and solutions to obstacles so that contingency plans can be prepared if difficulties arise during the standards writing process
• Develop an action plan for estimating the timeframe when each subject area’s first draft of the content standards will be completed

Enjoy these last few weeks of summer!

Margaret

Margaret Bowles, Adult Literacy and Basic Education Specialist, Office of Public Instruction