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- The Missouri Learning Standards help ensure students learn basic and higher-order skills, including problem solving and critical thinking. The standards are relevant to the real world and reflect the knowledge and skills students need to achieve their goals.
Learning outcomes improve when students, parents and teachers work together toward shared goals. The Missouri Learning Standards give school administrators, teachers, parents and students a road map for learning expectations in each grade and course.
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The process of creating learning objectives at the module level in a course and aligning them with assessments clarifies student learning expectations and ensures that assessments accurately reflect and support the course’s learning outcomes.
Best Practices for Developing Learning Outcomes. The following methods can ensure student learning outcomes are met: Align with standards and expectations. Ensure your learning outcomes align with any relevant professional, disciplinary, or accreditation standards.
Adapting Learning Outcomes or Objectives for Community Engaged Learning Courses. Community engaged (or service) learning courses should be driven by student learning outcomes that reflect both academic and community engaged learning. (TN)
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- Missouri Learning Standards
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August and September (or start of year) Training: Regardless of the sequence, training is essential to successfully implement both the Missouri Learning Standards and SLOs. While the locally established construct and processes for SLOs are important to understand, success will be directly tied to a teacher’s depth of content knowledge for the cours...
Typically September and October (or beginning of course) Crafting the SLO: Each element of an SLO has strong links to the Missouri Learning Standards: Approval: Teachers and administrators should center their approval conversations on how the SLO prepares all students for subsequent coursework and a more successful educational trajectory.
October through May Instruction: Effective pedagogy is needed to facilitate students attaining their targets. The content-specific instructional shifts should be regularly incorporated, in addition to other research-based strategies that explicitly or implicitly are a part of the approved SLO. Reflection: Teachers reflect on instruction and student...
Typically May through June (or just before course’s end) Summative Assessment: Summative assessments need to align fully to the focal standards. These assessments determine the degree to which content standards are learned. Reflection on Outcomes: Reflecting on outcomes helps educators determine student learning and how well instruction was deliver...
The following resources were used in the development of this document and are available at the referenced locations:
Missouri Learning Standards: http://www.missourilearningstandards.com/
CTAC’s SLO Resources: http://www.ctacusa.com/education/student-learning-objectives-slos/
An aligned program articulates how course learning objectives, learning activities, and assessments map to program outcomes. This alignment ensures that each aspect of a student’s learning journey leads them towards mastering skills and content knowledge vital to the discipline.
All learning activities and assessments should align to course learning objectives. Without this alignment, we risk assigning tasks unrelated to the course or set course objectives without ways to support or measure them. Ensuring alignment addresses both issues.
