STEM MI Champions SURVEYS OF ENACTED CURRICULUM Teacher Orientation Gary Money August 2 and 3, 2011

SEC Collaborative  Michigan Department of Education  Council of Chief State School Officers Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Objectives of the Teacher Orientation Session Answer questions concerning the Surveys of the Enacted Curriculum (SEC). Understand the teacher’s role in the SEC. Learn how the SEC uses topics and cognitive demands to describe instruction. Understand how to complete the online survey questions. Learn to register and begin a session with the survey.

Expectations of Teachers Complete all sections of the survey. Provide an accurate account of: – What is taught. – Teacher expectations for students. – Instructional practice. Survey completion time is approximately 90 minutes.

Three Sections of the SEC School and Target-Class Description Instructional Content Instructional Practice

School and Target-Class Description Provide a general description of your school. Provide a general description of the target-class you will consider as you complete the survey.

School and Class Description Click Submit to save your responses and continue.

Instructional Content Part A: Topics taught and Time devoted to instructional topics – “What students should know” Part B: Expectations of students/ cognitive demand – “What students should be able to do with what they know”

SEC Time on Topic Qualifiers Time on Topic 0 = None 1 = Slight coverage (less than 1 class/lesson) 2 = Moderate coverage (1-5 classes/lessons) 3 = Sustained coverage (more than 5 classes/lesson Note: The entire school year is always the time frame for time on topic.

Instructional Content–Time Indicate the time spent during the course of the school year.

Cognitive Demand Content Standards have inherent cognitive demand. Your instructional activities also have cognitive demand. The SEC intend to measure the cognitive demand relative to content instruction.

Cognitive Demand Categories for Mathematics

Cognitive Demand Activity With a partner, read the instructional activities on the worksheet and indicate the cognitive expectation for one activity. With your partner, discuss responses. Then, with the large group, we will review our answers and facilitate discussion around the answers.

SEC Response Codes for Cognitive Demand 0 = No emphasis 1 = Slight emphasis 2 = Moderate emphasis 3 = Sustained emphasis Note: Emphasis doesn’t need to equal 100%.

Instructional Content–Cognitive Demand

Instructional Practice Homework Instructional practices Assessments Opinions and beliefs Classroom instructional preparation Professional development Personal characteristics Formal course preparation

Instructional Practices Respond to the questions using the scales indicated in all sections.

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Registration Fill in all the fields and then click “submit”

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For research purposes it is sometimes desirable to merge SEC data with other data it is true that administrators are not able to link names with data, researchers may receive teacher names (if the teacher checks the box associated with the teacher release statement) -John Smithson,WCER

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