Aligning the School Standards, Instruction, and Assessment. Dr. Sterling M.

Plata
May 12, 2012

Aligning the School Standards, Instruction, and Assessment

with the K to 12 Framework: Implications to Pre-schools
Dr. Sterling M. Plata (sterling.plata@gmail.com;
http://dlsu.academia.edu/SterlingPlata)

Objectives: At the end of this seminar, you will be able to:

1. Enumerate the benefits of early childhood education,
2. Review global and local changes affecting educational reforms,
3. Define educational reform alignment
4. Review the alignment of standards, instruction, and assessment in
your school,
5. Plan for aligning standards, instruction, and assessment in your
school.

Starter: Watch the video and list down the benefits of

early childhood education.

Task 1 Watch the video on education reform and list down the
changes shown in it.

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Aligning the School Standards, Instruction, and Assessment. Dr. Sterling M.

Plata
May 12, 2012

Reflection 1: What ideas/realizations came to your mind while

you were watching this video?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Task 2

Areas of
Concern
Overall goal of
early
childhood
education
Areas of
Learning in
Early
Childhood
Education
(Subjects)

Content
standards
definition
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My school/my belief

K to 12 Framework and
Global trends

Aligning the School Standards, Instruction, and Assessment. Dr. Sterling M.

Plata
May 12, 2012

Sources of
Standards

Assessment or
Testing?

Examples of
assessment

Professional
development
or teacher
training?

Input 1 Skills that matter in the real world

1. _______________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________
4. _______________________________________________________________
5. _______________________________________________________________

Reflection 2: Does your current assessment practice measure

these important skills?
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

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Plata
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Input 2 Reasons for reform of content standards

1. ______________________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________________________

Input 3 New Literacies

1. ___________________________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________

Input 3 Viewing and Media Literacy

Definition of media
literacy
Importance of media
literacy

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Plata
May 12, 2012

Worksheet 1 Prepare an alignment plan

Content Standards

Assessment

Instruction

Workshop
Work with a partner and complete the table below.
Learning Outcome/Objective

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Assessment Task

Aligning the School Standards, Instruction, and Assessment. Dr. Sterling M.

Plata
May 12, 2012

___________________________
Dr. Sterling M. Plata is an educational reform advocate who helps teachers, administrators, and
educational institutions to evaluate their curriculum standards and assessment practices that will
deeply impact on student learning. She has a Specialist Certificate in Language Testing and
Assessment from SEAMEO-RELC, Singapore. She is a full-time faculty member of the Department of
English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University-Manila. Dr. Plata is also a member of
CHEDs Regional Quality Assurance Team (NCR). Since 2000 she has conducted research on
assessment and curriculum reform.
She is also a member of three international organizations: the International Language Testing
Association, Association for Media Literacy, and the Association of Language Testers in Europe
(individual affiliate). Dr. Plata is also the editor of the elementary series NextGen: Reading and Media
Literacy for elementary and Quest: Adventures in Language and Literature for HS. Both series are
aligned with the K to 12 curriculum framework.

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