This site, currently in beta, will offer practitioners a set of tasks for one standard at each grade level K-8.
In the future, "the sets of tasks will include elaborated teaching tasks with detailed information about using them for instructional purposes, rubrics, and student work. Such a fully developed set of tasks will be what we call a Complete Illustration of the standard."
Right now we are trying to build up our collection of Initial Illustrations of standards, which will have the following characteristics:
- A minimum of 4 tasks (although typically 5-6 or more depending on the standard).
- Most will be more like assessment tasks or brief teaching tasks. At least one will be the kernel of an instructional task that can eventually be more fully developed and elaborated with the help of teachers using it in classrooms.
- The tasks in the set will vary in difficulty. Some but not all will be scaffolded.
- A balance in computational/algorithmic and conceptual tasks.
- An appropriate number of contextual problems for the standard.
- Most of the tasks will illuminate the “center of mass” of the standard, and a few will light up the periphery.
- At least one task will bridge in some way to another standard, ideally across domains or grade levels.
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