Description
If your school requires Proficiency Scales, Standards Based Grading, or evaluates based on Marzano Framework, this product will save you weeks of research! This guide, written from my own personal teaching experience, gives a detailed step-by-step walk through of a simple process for implementing scales. Whether you are being compelled to use Standards-Based Grading or Proficiency Scales by your district, or trying to work through the challenges of implementation, you will find a plethora of specific ideas and solutions.
This completely comprehensive guide details everything I did to set up, write, organize, teach, and assess my students using scales. You will SAVE HOURS OF TIME learning form my experience!
How do Scales Work?
Proficiency Scales don’t just motivate a Growth Mindset, they define how students can demonstrate mastery. Every learning standard is broken down into 4 levels of Differentiation.They lead students up a progressive learning path that mirrors the way they develop concepts. Aligned to Bloom’s or Marzano’s Taxonomy of cognitive skills. From easiest-hardest: (Recall/Retrieval, Comprehension, Analysis/Application, and Knowledge Utilization/Synthesis).
The 4 Levels demonstrated are:
4. Level 4 indicates an advanced knowledge of the skill.
3. Level 3 represents proficiency in each math standard. see the stars*
2. Level 2 will include content from the previous grade level and new vocabulary that must be applied correctly for mastery of level 3.
1. Level 1 will either be derived from sub-skills of the standard, or from the background knowledge of earlier grade levels.
All of my best answers to the most common questions have been thoughtfully laid out for you.
The “Table of Contents” covers every step of implementation in a concise 36-page document. Allow me to hold your hand and share my personal examples to encourage your own growth path. See the difference Proficiency Scales can make in your professional practice.
This document also includes links to download additional free resources!
If you’re new to Proficiency Scales, don’t waste time fumbling around or feeling overwhelmed. You don’t have to figure things yourself, come and share in my 12+ years of experience. Get some quick ideas to get going and feel confident that this can be manageable for you!
*This guide applies to any subject area, but contains examples from Math & ELA standards aligned to the United States Common Core.
Teacher Reviews from previous versions at Teachers Pay Teachers:
“This resource has made our PLC process so much easier with the standards already unwrapped and the levels of understanding lend perfectly to emerging, approaching, meeting, and exceeding the standard. This is a lifesaver!” – Adrienne A. September 2021
“This resource is WELL worth it! I have used Marzano for a few years, but I haven’t been able to perfect it. The questions and level checks are perfect! It was so easy to establish a routine with this and that’s what I was struggling with. Thank you!” – Sandra V. October 2020
“WOW!!! BEST PURCHASE EVER!!! Your Marzano scale assessment tools got me INNOVATING on my observations this year! My principal was BLOWN AWAY by your product… So much so that he gave me money from our math budget to purchase multiple licenses for all the math teachers in my school. What a CLEAR way for my students to know EXACTLY where they are at in their progress towards our learning goals. It makes it so easy for them to track their progress and growth in their data notebooks now. Everyone I talk to about your product ends up buying it, and my colleagues in younger grades are so jealous that you don’t have them for their grade levels! YOU ARE AMAZING! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!” – Elyse Jahnke – May 2016
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