What are Essential Outcomes?

What Essential outcomes are:

What essential outcomes are not:

• Essential outcomes represent the essential understandings that a student must learn to reach high levels of learning
• Essential outcomes identify “have to know” versus “nice to know” which informs planning and instruction
• Essential outcomes help us identify which students did not master specific essential outcomes and need additional support
• Essential outcomes support common assessment development

• Essential outcomes do not represent all that you are going to teach.
• Essential outcomes do not omit parts of your curriculum
• Essential outcomes are not for reporting purposes only - you can’t stick them into a report card as is...
• Essential outcomes do not focus only on PATs