This microcredential focuses on an instructional coach's application of effective instructional design and assessment strategies through the use of Universal Design for Learning Theory. Having a foundational understanding of effective instructional practices is paramount to providing students with a quality education.

Website providing descriptions and tutorials of various assessment types and ways to design them in inclusive ways.

Although this chapter is part of a larger set of chapters on teaching first-year writing, this specific chapter deals with general principles related to creating good assignment prompts.

In this Writers Who Care blog post, Kim Johnson describes a series of strategies she used with her students to practice writing collaboratively in a way that would support the transfer of these writing strategies to a new writing task (a standardized test). Teachers may find this resource useful as they consider how to develop and implement writing strategies throughout a writing unit or to find examples of how to build writing strategies during collaborative writing experiences.

In this Writers Who Care blog post, Amy Worob shares a set of strategies related to mentor texts that she uses in her writing classroom. This resource will help give teachers examples and ideas about how to use mentor texts to develop writers’ strategies in their classes.

The Utah Core Standards define what students should understand and be able to do in their study of mathematics. These standards are aligned to scientifically based content standards. They drive high quality instruction through statewide comprehensive expectations for all students. The standards outline essential knowledge, concepts, and skills to be mastered at each grade level or within a critical content area. The standards provide a foundation for ensuring learning within the classroom.

The Utah State Board of Education adopted the K-12 Utah Core Standards for Mathematics in January 2016. Core guides provide a description of the Core Standards, including concepts and skills to master, critical background knowledge and academic vocabulary. The course overview documents show the major work of the grade level and the coherence of content across grade levels.

The Utah Core Standards are organized into strands, which represent significant areas of learning within content areas. Depending on the core area, these strands may be designated by time periods, thematic principles, modes of practice, or other organizing principles. Within each strand are standards. A standard is an articulation of the demonstrated proficiency to be obtained. A standard represents an essential element of the learning that is expected. While some standards within a strand may be more comprehensive than others, all standards are essential for mastery.

The Utah Effective Teaching Standards articulate what effective teaching and learning look like in the Utah public education system. These standards can be used by instructional coaches to build educator self-efficacy and support educator development.

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Utah National Parks: Standard 7.G.1 Solve problems involving scale drawings of geometric figures, including computing actual lengths and areas from a scale drawing and reproducing a scale drawing at a different scale.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

1st Grade SEEd textbook for the 2022-2023 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: June 8, 2022)

1st Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. Written in Chinese. (Added: September 14, 2020)

1st Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. Written in French. (Added: September 14, 2020)

1st Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. Written in Portuguese. (Added: September 14, 2020)

2nd Grade SEEd textbook for the 2022-2023 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. (Added: June 8, 2022)

2nd Grade SEEd textbook for the 2020-2021 school year. This textbook was developed to align to the Utah Science with Engineering Education (SEEd) Standards. Written in Chinese. (Added: September 14, 2020)