Student Learning Objectives

Students demonstrate balancingStudent Learning Objectives (SLOs) are long-term, measurable academic goals that educators set for their students. They should focus on priority content, be measured by appropriate sources of evidence, and include specific targets for student mastery or progress. They are used as a measure of student learning by all educators participating in the Educator Evaluation System.

 

 

Calling All Arts Educators


The Arts Learning Network piloted a project this year in connection with the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, VSAarts Rhode Island, and RIDE. Arts educators and administrators in Cumberland, South Kingstown, and Warwick collaborated to explore best practices within the Student Learning Objective process for teachers in the arts. Throughout the year they documented their work and are circulating it to gather feedback from arts educators across the state. Feedback is being collected until June 15th, 2013 for the RI Arts Learning Network by network partner VSAarts Rhode Island. Please click on this link to download the draft report and email feedback to programs@vsartsri.org.

Resources

Below is a narrated video for teachers that focuses on the SLO process. Along with the two accompanying documents, this video is meant to support teachers as they write their SLOs.

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Student Learning Objective Quality Check Tool

A new Student Learning Objective Quality Check Tool has been developed to help educators and evaluators effectively review and revise Student Learning Objectives.  The one-page tool includes guiding questions for each component of a Student Learning Objective (e.g., objective statement, rationale, targets) to help determine whether or not that section is acceptable or in need or revision.  The Student Learning Objective Tool was adapted from a similar resource produced by the Warwick Public Schools.

SLO Quality Check Tool [PDF, 382KB]

Narrated Workshop: Peer Review and Support Session

On September 25 and October 2 RIDE held SLO Peer Review and Support Sessions for educators across the state. This was an opportunity for teachers and administrators to bring their SLOs and experience to a RIDE facilitated workshop that allowed teachers and administrators from varied districts to hone their ability to review SLOs, determine if the three main criteria were approvable or needed revision, and to craft feedback. In case you were not able to attend, we have created this narrated powerpoint for you, so that you could also benefit from the experience.

This video is meant to be utilized as a facilitation device in a department or grade level meeting, in which all members bring a complete draft of their SLO to share and receive feedback from colleagues. It can also be used for leadership team members to calibrate the feedback they give to teachers. This session will take about an hour. At your meeting project the recorded video, pause when it is needed, and review SLOs together. Please print out all the accompanying documents found below. 

SLO Workshop

Documents for Narrated Workshop: Peer Review and Support Session

Below are updated Student Learning Objective (SLO) samples that reflect the guidance of Edition II.  They are not meant to be exemplars and do not all look the same, as SLOs are incredibly context-specific.  Rather, they illustrate the diversity of choices educators make while crafting SLOs in different content-areas and grade-spans.  We hope that viewing an array of quality samples helps educators as they participate in the SLO process.

The SLOs below are organized by grade/subject.  For SLOs organized by trait, please select the next tab.

Administrators

Teachers – Special Education

Teachers – Elementary

Teachers – Middle School

Teachers – High School

Below are updated Student Learning Objective (SLO) samples that reflect the guidance of Edition II. They are not meant to be exemplars and do not all look the same, as SLOs are incredibly context-specific. Rather, they illustrate the diversity of choices educators make while crafting SLOs in different content-areas and grade-spans. We hope that viewing an array of quality samples helps educators as they participate in the SLO process.

In this section, we have organized a portion of our SLO samples by trait. This is not an exhaustive list of all samples that demonstrate these traits. Rather, the four samples listed were selected to represent a range of approaches. For SLOs organized by grade/subject, please select the previous tab.

Tiered Targets

Portfolio Assessment

Multiple Measures

Semester-Long

End-of-Course Assessment

Performance/Authentic Assessment

Collaborative Scoring

Use of Baseline Data