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Honors Courses in Milwaukee Public
Schools
•National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
•Secondary School courses Classification System: School Codes for the Exchange of Data (SCED) framework
•Commonly referred to as the “national courses codes”
SCED Course Level conveys the level of rigor.
There are four options for SCED course level: • B for basic or remedial• G for general or regular• E for enriched or advanced (“a course that
augments the content and/or rigor of a general course, but does not carry an honors designation”)
• H for honors
SCED Framework Guidance on Honors Level :
• The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
SCED Framework Guidance:
•The honors designation shall be applied to “an advanced level course designed for students who have earned honors status according to educational requirements. These courses typically include additional content not found in general courses, and are formally designated as honors courses.”
MPS Honors Courses: Earning Honors Status
• MUST use data to inform decision
MPS Honors Courses: Advanced Level Course
•If the only difference is the students in the class, it’s not an honors section
•Understanding by Design (“Backward Design”)
MPS Honors Courses: Earning Honors Status According to Educational Requirements
• High standardized test scores (80% using national or district norm)• Grades• Peaks in achievement in prior years• Parent/family selection• Self-selection
MPS Honors Courses: Earning Honors Status According to Educational Requirements
• High standardized test scores (80% using national or district norm)• Grades• Peaks in achievement in prior years• Parent/family selection• Self-selection• Cues from gifted education—multiple measures, unbiased tools
MPS Honors Courses: Additional Content
• The course must resemble the standard-level course, but must include additional content as well as substantive opportunities for enrichment, acceleration, and self-directed study.
• The course must use the same textbook as the standard-level course, as well as additional articles, books and monographs.
• Advanced level course• Use of data to identify students for
honors courses• Use multiple measures• Measures shall not be biased along
racial, cultural, language lines• Additional content• Formal designation
Review: Honors “Do’s”
Review: Honors “Dont’s”
NEW MPS PROTOCOLS
for honors courses
In Milwaukee Public Schools, the
establishment of standardized practices
for the delivery of honors courses is a
part of district-wide work to raise student
achievement through recentralization of
the curriculum. As of September, 2011,
schools wishing to offer honors courses
will adhere to the following protocols:
Courses on this list are the only honors courses offered in MPS high
schools. Honors courses must use only the course codes from the
list below. A special letter or number at the end of the course code
will no longer be used in eSIS to designate a course or a section of
a course as honors.
Any school planning to offer honors
courses must appoint a member of
the school community to serve as a
liason for the honors program.
Honors program liasons will attend
required quarterly meetings, which
will be held on weekday afternoons,
after school hours.
Appointment of the honors liason will
occur BEFORE the school offers any
honors course, and the honors liason
will attend at least one meeting
PRIOR to the commencement of any
honors course at the school. A list of
meeting dates through the end of
2012 is available at
http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/gt/h
onors/html
.
Schools offering honors courses will
also commit to participation in school-
based professional development, to be
delivered by the honors liason and/or
the district honors program
coordinator. The honors professional
development plan will be crafted to
meet the needs of the school by the
principal, honors liason, and district
honors program coordinator.
Each teacher planning to teach
honors must submit for approval the
syllabus for the course/s before
commencement of the school year
(by August 20). Further details on
this process, titled the MPS Honors
Course Audit, are available at
http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/gt/
honors.html
.
1909 Senior English SyllabusMt. Vernon Seminary, Washington, DC
Review of New MPS Honors Protocols:
• Honors Liason
• School-based PD
• Honors Course Audit
