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Youth Development Evaluation. Orientation. People. NC 4-H E-LC 2016. How does this image represent…. A young person in your county Your youth development evaluation strategy The future of the Evaluation Learning Circle. TRAINing. Ticket to ride…. Just getting through the gate….
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People NC 4-H E-LC 2016
How does this image represent… A young person in your county Your youth development evaluation strategy The future of the Evaluation Learning Circle
Purpose NC 4-H Eval Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Organizational Psychology Research • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? An organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage.—Jack Welch
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Organizational Psych • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • What are desired results? • What is evidence of understanding? • What learning experiences will get to understanding? Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 17-19.
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Org Psych • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact • Standard: Search, HighScope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4-H • Essential Question: How do young people learn to master life’s challenges? Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. --Maria Montessori
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Org Psych • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact • Standard: Search, HighScope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4-H • Essential Question: How do young people master life’s challenges? • What do youth need to know for healthy development? • What skills enable youth to achieve? • What must youth understand to become contributing members of society? Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 58-59.
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Org Psych • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact • Standard: Search, HighScope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4-H • Essential Question: How do young people master challenges? • What do youth need to know for healthy development? • What skills enable youth to achieve? • What must youth understand to become contributing members of society? transfer
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Org Psych • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advancing youth development quality and impact • Standard: Search, HighScope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4-H • Essential Question: How will young people meet challenges, present & future • Advance authentic assessment in youth development • Standard: Understanding by Design, Evaluation Stds. • Essential Question: How can we know if/when/how programming matters? …authentic problem solving requires deciding when to use which approach and which facts… --Grant Wiggins
NC 4-H Evaluation Learning Circle(E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization • Standard: Peter Senge • Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advancing youth development quality and impact • Standard: Search, HighScope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4-H • Essential Question: How will young people meet challenges, present & future • Advancing authentic assessment in youth development • Standard: Understanding by Design, Evaluation Stds. • Essential Question: How can we know if/when/how programming matters? • We s(t)imulate learning-by-doing by: • Informal checks for understanding • Observations and dialogues • Tests and quizzes • Open-ended questions, problems • Performance tasks Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 152-153.
Six Facets to Build Assessments for Understanding A student who really understands can… • Explain big ideas in paraphrase • Interpret meanings of ideas • Apply in new situations • See in perspective • Demonstrate empathy • Reveal self-knowledge, thoughts, feelings, values Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 163-164.
Process E-LC: Making the Best Better Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe. (2011). The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, pp. 105.
Possibilities Exemplar: NC 4-H Camps
Practicalities Meeting Time, Place, Format • Online Monthly: lunchtime? Early morning? • E-Basics Self-Directed • Project Group Consults • Special Opps: Yours and Mine • Products: Project reports, publications Grants, Project plans Recruiting, Marketing