Third Grade

Guiding Question: Do All Students Demonstrate That They Are Learning?

Provide students with extensive opportunities to demonstrate their learning. Use questions, tasks, and assessments that yield data allowing you to assess students’ progress toward learning goals and help you pinpoint where understanding breaks down.

Dates	Assessments
Aug 19 - Nov 1	Initial ELPAC & Initial Alt ELPAC (Phase 1)
Oct 7 - Nov 1	Star Reading & Star Math
Nov 4 - Jun 4	Initial ELPAC & Initial Alt ELPAC (Phase 2)
Nov 18 - Nov 22	Family/Teacher Conference Week
Jan 27 - Feb 21	Star Reading & Star Math
Feb 3 - May 30	Summative ELPAC & Summative Alt ELPAC
Mar 3 - Mar 7	Family/Teacher Conference Week
Mar 17 - May 30	SBAC/CAA

Demonstration of Learning CORE Rubric Teaching Practices
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Select and design formative and summative assessments that yield usable data on students’ progress toward grade-level standards, objective(s), and/or IEP goals.
Check student understanding during and at the conclusion of lessons, aligned to lesson instructional and language objective(s)
Provide opportunities to apply learning to a real-world setting.

Provide meaningful oral and written feedback to students.
Provide corrective feedback to students judiciously and selectively.
Recognize the root of student errors and reteach or reframe content to address the underlying cause of student misunderstanding.

Interpret the results of student work, including routine assignments, quizzes, tests, projects, and standardized assessments.
Differentiate instruction as needed in response to student learning needs, including enrichment and extra support.
Adjust instruction during a lesson based on student data.
Adjust instruction between lessons/sequence of lessons based on student data.
Analyze instruction individually and collaboratively for the purposes of improvement.