Our district has adopted the use of Marzano Proficiency or learning scales. I was inspired by this Pinterest pin my own learning scales for my class. Although the original pin was related to behavior modification - it fit what I needed. Here is what I came up with. The left side is for our language arts goal and the right side is for our math arts goal. My principal really wanted to be able to see our scale and be able to ask the students about it when he made his walkthroughs. I on the other hand felt that although we might be focusing on one particular learning goal during a lesson, we really visit and re-visit several goals and I want the kiddos to understand where they are on the scales for all of them. So this was a great compromise. The scale is front and center and easy for both the principal and the kiddos to see at all times with our current goal. I will take a picture and make copies for the students' binders to refer to throughout the year.
You can find Marzano scales for most of the Common Core Standards at their Proficiency Scale Bank here.
