PLC & Rigor Resources
PLC Introduction & Basics
The Big Ideas
The 3 Big Ideas of a PLC
4 Essential Questions
The 4 Essential Questions of a PLC
Team Norms
Use this worksheet to set your team meeting norms
Click HERE for a blog post with more info!
Team Learning Process
Steps teams should follow to be a fully functioning PLC.
What's a PLC Meeting, Anyway?
This is a great blog post from Solution Tree about what a PLC really is - it is NOT just about meeting together!
One Step at a Time
PLC Teams can all be in different places along the PLC journey. This great article outlines 7 stages of where PLC teams can be.
What Do We Collaborate About
Use this tool as a guide for your team meetings.Â
Essential Standards & Learning Targets
What do we want students to know?
Learning Targets
This outline explains the purpose of learning targets and how to write them
GVC Worksheet
Use this worksheet to guide the create of GVC's and learning targets
CFA's & Data Analysis
How do we know if they learned it?
Steps/protocol for team meetings focused on Data
A different data analysis tool
Assessment Plan Worksheet - outline for assessment creation
Response to Interventions - RTIÂ
What do we do for those students that haven't learned it?
Enhancement & EnrichmentÂ
What do we do for those students that have already learned it?
Increasing Rigor in Instruction
Resources related to Rigor
What is Rigor?
10 Strategies to Add Rigor
4 Myths About Rigor
Learning Activities for Metacognition
Focused on student reflection and self-evaluation
Project Based Learning
Quick Reference Sheet
Question Matrix
From Barbara Blackburn. Dividing the grid into 4 quadrants, upper left is basic questions, bottom right is higher level questions.
Rigorous Skill Instruction
Infographic showing rigorous ways to implement Deep Practice/Desirable Difficulty
Project Based Example
This is an example of a rigorous learning project
Essential Elements for Project Based Learning
from pblworks.org
Why Project Based Learning is effective
Depth of Knowledge Resources
DOK Information & Resources
DOK Explanation
A chart explaining the different DOK levels and other info
DOK Question Stems
Use this to develop questions relating to the different DOK levels
DOK 3-4 Learning
This document shows you different examples how to use DOK levels 3-4Â
DOK Level 3-4 Learning Strategies
Taken from "Diving in to Strategic Thinking" by Gwendolyn Leininger & Sandra Adams
Content Specific DOK 3-4 Learning Strategies
Taken from "Diving in to Strategic Thinking" by Gwendolyn Leininger & Sandra Adams
Student Reflection/Evaluation Resources - Metacognition
Reflection Questions
Questions that can be used before, during, and after learning.
40 Student Reflection Questions
Includes questions for backward looking, inward looking, outward looking, and forward looking
Reflection strategies for the classroom
6 great strategies for incorporating reflection into learning