Why and how we should use pacing guides including the application of PLC driving questions. Pacing guides answer the first two PLC driving questions about what do we want the students to learn, and how will we know that they learned it.

1. Pacing
Guides

2. HELLO!
I am Stewart Hudnall
@stewhud

3. WHY PACING
GUIDES?

4. Driving Questions
We answer the first
two questions using
the pacing guide

5. PACING GUIDES
Allow us and the students to know what
we want them to know.

6. WHY PACING GUIDES?
Why Pacing Guides?
Provides Focus

7. WHY PACING GUIDES?
Why Pacing Guides?
To challenge teachers with
important questions

8. WHY PACING GUIDES?
Why Pacing Guides?
To identify and effectively
use classroom assessments

9. WHAT IS THE
PROCESS?

11. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
What are the
Big Rocks?

12. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Included in our
Pacing Guides?

13. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS

14. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Essential Standards help avoid
Curriculum Chaos

15. “Robert J. Marzano rates a Guaranteed
and Viable Curriculum as the first
factor having the most impact on student
achievement
What Works in Schools
by Robert J. Marzano

16. How do we determine
Essential Standards?

17. “Ask yourself the following
question:
What is the most important
things students should know
before advancing to the next
grade?

18. K-22?
If every standard was adequately
taught in our school system,
instead of K-12 we would have K-
22.
Do you even want to think about what a 28 year old high school senior would be
like?

19. Standards & Objectives
Financial Literacy
4 Standards
13 Objectives
73 Sub-Objectives

20. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Prune the Standards

21. What does the
Essential Standard
process look like?

22. “

24. ESSENTIAL STANDARDS
Don’t lose sight of the forest

25. “What you will find is that good set of
Essential Standards will cover about 88%
of the items on the state test, but not 100%.
If you go after the extra 12%, yo will have
to cover many more standards and hence
have less teaching time to thoroughly
teach each of the essential standards.
Ainsworth 2004

26. UNIT GUIDES

27. PACING GUIDES
Remember:
Pacing Guides are living documents

28. “You don't have to be great
to start, but you have to
start to be great.
Zig Ziglar

29. RECOMMENDED READING

30. THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find me at
@stewhud
stewart.hudnall@jordandistrict.org