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Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs). Essential Skills. Objectives Review Requirements and Implementation Timeline Understand Assessment Options Describe Resources Available. Essential Skill Overview. Essential Skills. 9 cross-curricular skills

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Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

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  1. Essential Skills(Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

  2. Essential Skills Objectives • Review Requirements and Implementation Timeline • Understand Assessment Options • Describe Resources Available

  3. Essential Skill Overview Essential Skills • 9 cross-curricular skills • Embedded in State Content Standards • Students must demonstrate proficiency • 3 currently scheduled for implementation: Reading, Writing, Math

  4. Implementation Essential Skills Essential Skills graduation requirements are based on when a student is first enrolled in grade 9 (cohort year) • Cohort year 2008-2009: Reading • Cohort year 2009-2010: Reading and Writing • Cohort year 2010-2011: Reading, Writing, & Apply Mathematics

  5. Assessment Options Essential Skills

  6. Work Sample Requirements Essential Skills

  7. Work Sample Rigor Essential Skills Work samples must meet the level of rigor required on the OAKS assessment. Work samples provide an optionalmeans to demonstrate proficiency not an easiermeans.

  8. Professional Development Essential Skills • Scoring Guide Training Modules • “Train-the-trainer” modules and materials now available on the website for local use • http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=3623 • DISCS • Online scoring guide calibration tool that allows raters to self-evaluate their level of proficiency and continue training as necessary • http://discs.orvsd.org/

  9. Promising Practices Essential Skills • Ensure an adequate number of staff are proficient in using the scoring guides • Familiarize students with the scoring guides early • Score classroom assignments for Essential Skill proficiency • Score multi-disciplinary projects for more than one Essential Skill • Develop prompts that can be used at the local and/or regional level • Develop a local or regional work sample scoring infrastructure that allows for a sharing of workload

  10. Essential Skills Promising Considerations • Districts should develop a policy for retention of student performance data and work samples • Districts must develop a process allowing students to appeal a district decision to deny a diploma based on the Essential Skills graduation requirement.

  11. Reporting Essential Skills • Essential Skills graduation requirements are submitted through the Cum ADM collection • Essential Skills graduation requirements are applied to regular and modified diplomas (for those students with a cohort year associated with requirement(s) • See the Cum ADM manual for specific reporting codes

  12. Essential Skills In a Nutshell Required Essential Skills • Reading: 2008-2009 cohort (Class of 2012) • Reading & Writing: 2009-2010 cohort (Class of 2013) • Reading, Writing & Math: 2010-2011 cohort (Class of 2014) Approved Methods of Assessment • OAKS • Other Approved Standardized Tests • Work Samples

  13. Resources Essential Skills • Assessment of Essential Skills • http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2042 • Assessment of Essential Skills Toolkit Toolkit • http://estoolkit.orvsd.org/ • Work Samples • http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=219 • The Oregon Diploma • http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=368 • The Essential Skills Appendix • http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/admin/2011-12_appendix-k.pdf

  14. Acorns for Storage Essential Skills • Which courses are responsible for Essential Skills Assessment in our school? • Who has the key responsibilities in assessing the Essential Skills? • What is our procedure for keeping track of student progress toward demonstrating each required Essential Skill? • How can elementary and middle schools prepare students for the Essential Skills?

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