Get clarity on the Critical Concepts. This crucial tool will help you maintain laser focus on essential standards to accelerate student learning.
Participants will:
- Understand what the Critical Concepts are and how they were developed
- Experience the customization process for the Critical Concepts
- Examine how the Critical Concepts can be used to support the planning, instructional, assessment, and feedback processes in a school
Research indicates that most standards documents articulate far more content than can be taught in the time available to K–12 teachers. In response, analysts at Marzano Resources sought to identify, as objectively as possible, a focused set of critical concepts for each grade level in the content areas of English language arts (ELA), mathematics, science, and social studies.