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ALO Instructional Givens & Delivery Models
Updated September 2017
Advanced Learning Opportunity teachers provide an adaptive delivery model based upon individual learner profiles.
Givens:
- A process exists to ensure that students who require additional challenge and rigor are sufficiently supported in their learning.
- ALO staff work with classroom teachers and students to provide opportunities to enrich the English and Language Arts and Mathematics standards.
- All students K-5 are provided with regular opportunities to promote thinking development. Services are adaptive in nature and flexibly delivered to meet the unique needs of our students.
- Emphasis is on complex instruction to promote deeper exploration of grade-level standards.
- ALO and grade level teams will determine the best push-in delivery model that meets students’ and grade level needs including but not limited to:
- co-teaching
- small, flexible groups
- whole group instruction
- personalized learning approach
ALO Content ExpectationsK-2 Thinking Development
- Exposes all students to think critically/analytically, practically, and creatively (Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory)
- Invites student inquiry and wonder in collaborative environments
- Introduces and strengthens habits of mind
ALO Math 3rd - 5th
- Extending grade-level standards
- Emphasis on Standards of Mathematical Practice
- Integrates various mathematical instructional structures (whole group, flexible (guided) groups, and complex instruction)
- Flexible delivery model
ALO English Language Arts 3rd - 5th
- Depth of grade-level standards
- Close reading with paired, complex text sets (various genres, formats, perspectives, eras, etc.)
- Text dependent questions and evidence based answers
- Opportunities to discuss texts with peers
- Opportunities to write about text
- Rooted in ELA Curricular Framework that includes scope documents and thematic concepts
- Flexible delivery model