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Assessing Academic Conversations

Assessing Academic Conversations. Presented by: Cynthia Godoy, NBCT & Kit McConnell, NBCT. Monday April 13 & Monday April 27 3:30 – 5 pm. Goals of the Grant: To build a statewide network of accomplished classroom teachers and other education leaders who will:

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Assessing Academic Conversations

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  1. Assessing Academic Conversations Presented by: Cynthia Godoy, NBCT & Kit McConnell, NBCT Monday April 13 & Monday April 27 3:30 – 5 pm

  2. Goals of the Grant: To build a statewide network of accomplished classroom teachers and other education leaders who will: • provide expertise for the instructional shifts needed to implement the CCSS in ELA and Mathematics, and the NGSS; • support the design and implementation of school-based professional learning around instructional practice; • create and lead regional professional development; • become a resource for continued instructional support statewide by communicating and coordinating with CTA/local associations, school districts, county offices of education, and the California Department of Education.

  3. Engaged participants will… • Experience a text-based academic conversation • Apply knowledge of academic conversations to instructional planning • Use strategies for assessing academic conversations • Identify benefits of using academic conversations • Collaborate around structures to support various conversations

  4. THE 4 C’S OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

  5. Students 4 Domains of quality PD Content Knowledge Instruction & Pedagogy Claims & Assessment

  6. Students 4 Domains of quality PD Content Knowledge Instruction & Pedagogy Claims & Assessment

  7. What factors do you consider when grouping students? • Kagan • Heterogeneous/Homogeneous • Social Factors • What else? Experiencing academic conversations

  8. Form a group of 4 – 5 Experiencing academic conversations

  9. Choose a role: • Facilitator: Assures full participation • Assessor: Monitors and evaluates conversation • Time Keeper: Keeps group on task • Reporter: Communicates group findings publicly • (Groups of 5 will have duplicate roles) Experiencing academic conversations

  10. “Studies show homework isn’t much of a burden” • Read the text individually • Mark up the text/take notes on your own • Formulate one question on an index card The Text In 20 minutes your group should have created 4 to 5 open ended questions based on the text

  11. Assessor: • - Collect your home group’s question cards and travel to another group. • - Once in the new group, you will observe and assess the academic conversation using the “TALKS” handout. Play your role

  12. Facilitator: Lead your group’s conversation. • 1. Decide which two questions your group will discuss • (DOK: distinguish, critique, compare, evaluate). • 2. Consider the strategies you can utilize to promote participation of all group members. Foster conversation about the text and attempt to answer your “top two” questions. Play your role

  13. Recorder/Reporter: Summarize your group’s • conversation on the Recorder/Reporter Notes, and be • prepared to share out. Play your role

  14. Timekeeper: Decide on the best ways to alert your group to the time limitations. Communicate the tools that you’ll use before your group begins. For 10 minutes your group will have an academic conversation. The assessor will observe participation. Play your role

  15. Instructional Shifts

  16. What did you talk about? • Assessor’s perspective • Measuring success Report Out

  17. Try this out! • Bring artifacts related to the academic conversation: • TALKS form, • questions on index card, • Recorder/reporter notes, • video, • short piece of student writing that was a result to the conversation, • other ideas… For Monday April 27th

  18. SBAC sample activities • SBAC prompts • SBAC performance task • Benchmark assessments • Anytime students have to write • Visual texts • AVID Weekly Resources…

  19. Access evaluation at: • www.rlstevenson.net Click on the following: • DepartmentsEnglish Language Arts Assessing Conversations Evaluation

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