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CECHS and ASU: Partners in Professional Learning

CECHS and ASU: Partners in Professional Learning. Grant Proposal Opportunity. funding provided by the Gates Foundation and distributed through the UNC General Administration Opportunity to work with CECHS!. Our Two Funded Projects. Engagement

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CECHS and ASU: Partners in Professional Learning

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  1. CECHS and ASU: Partners in Professional Learning

  2. Grant Proposal Opportunity funding provided by the Gates Foundation and distributed through the UNC General Administration Opportunity to work with CECHS!

  3. Our Two Funded Projects • Engagement • Going Deeper: Examining and Enhancing Formative Assessment Practice at CECHS • Research • The Case for Excellence: Examining NCNSP Design Principles at Caldwell Early College High School

  4. Going Deeper: Examining and Enhancing Formative Assessment Practices • Designed to build the capacity of educators at CECHS to examine and enhance classroom assessment practices. • Aligning efforts with the NCNSP Design Principles • And…meeting the NC FALCON training requirement

  5. The Case for Excellence: Examining NCNSP Design Principles at CECHS • The purpose of this research project is to develop rich, descriptive case studies of programs, practices, and outcomes at CECHS. • Data collection and case study development will focus on describing how CECHS exemplifies the six design principles for the NCNSP.

  6. Professional Learning • Examining formative assessment practices and beliefs • Making adjustments • In the CECHS tradition of collaboration -crafting a set of beliefs related to assessing student learning (informed by research and practice) • Developing and implementing assessments based on these beliefs

  7. Your Survey Responses • https://survey.appstate.edu/ • We used this survey information as well as your QuickWrite responses from last week’s session to think about activities and resources for today and going forward.

  8. Sample Results • What formative assessments have you used effectively in your teaching? • What specific questions, topics, and/or concerns do you have about formative assessment that you would like for us to address together this semester? • See handout

  9. Good Test, Bad Testactivity developed by Grant Wiggins On Your Own • Think back to your many prior experiences with testing- both in and out of school. • What was the most authentic, challenging, and insightful “test” you have ever taken? • What made it that authentic, challenging, and insightful? (It may not have been called a test, but it perhaps “tested” you in an important way).

  10. Synthesis Activity In Your Group • What do all good “tests” seem to have in common? In sharing your recollections with your colleagues, begin to build a list of generalizations that grow out of the stories and conversations in each group. Large Group • Synthesizing and sharing

  11. Themes from “Good Test” Generalizations • Feedback (immediate, specific) • Assessment matched instruction • Assessment was connected to the real world • Assessment required integration of skills, knowledge • Criteria for success was known • Students were actively involved and had some choice • There were multiple ways to respond to the assessment • It was challenging, but possible

  12. How can our understanding of effective assessment… • Help us value and implement formative assessment as a process (not merely a set of products)? • Inform our beliefs and practice? • Act as a compass to guide our efforts?

  13. PD360 Video • Keeping An Eye on Assessments • Kentucky is shifting assessment focus from an emphasis on summative assessment to formative assessment data to guide classroom practice. • Viewing Activity: As you watch the video, record your ideas about assessment beliefs and practices • http://www.pd360.com/index.cfm?ContentId=4536

  14. Self-Reflection: Formative Assessment Practice • Rate your level of expertise on each item. • Set 1-2 goals for yourself as you move forward in examining your formative assessment practices and beliefs.

  15. Preparation for February 24 • Read materials on NC FALCON for Module II • Read one of the articles on the wordpress blog www.informedassessment.wordpress.com • Bring a copy of your curriculum • Bring 2-3 samples of student work

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