12th grade ELA

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

INSTRUCTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS

All students deserve to have the boundaries of their thinking challenged and in turn to challenge those boundaries in order to engage new ways of thinking.

Vision Statement: All students will have access to advanced learning experiences that challenge and engender the resilience required to cultivate their social, emotional, and academic potential in order to become well-adjusted, contributing members of society. We will advance our vision through persistent development, assessment, and revision of the following objectives: ● Increase Equity with Identification and Outreach ● Define and Enhance

Critical Actions for Educators

Curriculum and Instruction for Advanced Learners Promote Effective Communication Between All Stakeholders.

● Become familiar with the core ● Collaborate in teams to identify and to unpack priority standards

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Provide Professional Learning Opportunities to Increase Capacity ●

Mission Statement: Advanced learners will engage complex and rigorous content through deep learning experiences that promote effective communication, collaboration and teamwork, analytical and critical thinking, problem solving and innovation, and metacognitive strategies. We will achieve our mission by building and sustaining instructional capacity that emphasizes:

● Instruct the whole

learner, both socially and emotionally as well as academically

● Shift the cognitive load to students to support them in being self-directed learners

● Be intentional in

Performance Standards

Levels of Thinking 1

engaging students in deep learning experiences

● Effective Communication ● Collaboration & Teamwork ● Analytical & Critical Thinking ● Problem Solving & Innovation ● Metacognitive Strategies

1. Recall & Reproduction 2. Skills & Concepts 3. Strategic Thinking & Reasoning 4. Extended Thinking

Deep Learning Experiences

● Provide frequent opportunities for

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students to self-assess where they are in relation to the success criteria

1 For more information on Levels of Thinking