Using Standards Aligned System to Ensure 21st Century Teaching and Learning December 8, 2009

1. Using Standards Aligned System to Ensure 21st Century Teaching and LearningDecember 8, 2009 HOMEROOM 3 Fair Assessment & Materials and Resources

2. Homeroom 3Fair AssessmentObjectives • Define and differentiate among the four types of assessments as defined. • Explain how assessments may be used for multiple purposes. pdesas.org

3. FAIR ASSESSMENTS Fair assessment is a process used by teachers and students before, during, and after instruction to provide feedback and adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve student achievement. In Pennsylvania the four types of assessment are summative, formative, benchmark, and diagnostic.

4. Measures overall achievement typically at the end of the year, a course, or a meaningful unit of study Often used for grading, accountability, and/or research/evaluation Summative Assessment

5. PSSA, PSSA-M, PASAW-APT, WIDA Access Placement TestTerraNovaACCESS for ELLsStanford 10End of UnitPVAAS (Growth and Projections using PSSA)Final Exams-Keystones Examples of Summative Assessments

6. A planned process Used during instruction to provide feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve students’ achievement of intended instructional outcomes. Classroom-based Formal and Informal Measures Formative Assessment

7. Formative Assessment Strategies Questioning techniques Active engagement check-ins such as response cards, traffic lights, thumbs-up Think-pair-share Random reporter Observation Exit tickets

8. Measures achievement of important grade level content periodically during the year. May predict how a group of students would perform if the PSSA were given on that same day. Can be used to measure achievement of content taught in the past 6-8 weeks. Benchmark Assessment

9. Examples of Benchmark Assessment 4Sight DIBELS AIMSweb Riverside Assess2Know

10. Measures and identifies specific student strengths, weaknesses, skills and knowledge before and during instruction. Used to plan instruction or intervention so that individual student needs are addressed. PA will use a Computer-Adaptive testing approach Diagnostic Assessment

11. Examples of Diagnostic Assessments DRA Running Records GRADE G-MADE

12. DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

16. Allows teachers to create customized assessments Can be formative, summative, diagnostic, or benchmark Assessment Builder

17. Back to the PORTAL click ASSESSMENT BUILDER TAB

18. Culminating ActivitySummative*Formative*Benchmark*Diagnostic Reflect on an assessment area that you will apply in your district or classroom. Identify how SAS assessments may be useful in raising student achievement at your school or district. 18

19. Homeroom 3Materials and ResourcesObjectives • Identify the elements of the Materials and Resources and how they interconnect. • Understand how the Voluntary Model Curriculum is built – learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and other available resources.

20. MATERIALS AND RESOURCES Materials and resources include Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania standards in curriculum frameworks for the four major content areas (mathematics, science, social studies, reading-writing-speaking-listening).

21. 5 Elements ofMaterials & Resources Learning Progressions Units Lessons Materials and Resources Aligned to the Units and Lesson Plans Materials and Resources Aligned to the Other Circles

22. Learning ProgressionsGrades K - 12 • A carefully sequenced set of building blocks that all students must master en route to mastering a more distant curriculum aim • Simply stated, they are building blocks spanning K-12 that show the sub-skills and prerequisites

23. Voluntary Model Curriculum What it is: • Aligned to PA standards, concepts and competencies, assessment anchors, and eligible content. • Learning Progressions – carefully sequenced set of building blocks that all students must master en route to mastering a more distant curricular aim. • Unit Plan – a segment of the learning progression focused on critical topic/theme. • Lesson Plan – a written guide that specifically outlines the intended learning outcomes.

24. Voluntary Model Curriculum What it is not: • A complete year-long curriculum. • These are sample unit and lesson plans built upon selected learning progression.

25. Alignments Big Ideas Concepts Competencies Related Resources COMPONENTS OF A UNIT PLAN • Lesson Plan Code • Subject • Grade level/course • Title • Objectives • Essential Questions

26. Go to the MATH UNIT PLAN on your thumb drive!

27. Essential Questions Duration Instructional Procedures Suggested Instructional Procedures Formative Assessment Related Resources COMPONENTS OF A LESSON PLAN • Lesson Plan Code • Subject • Grade level/course • Title • Alignments • Vocabulary • Objectives

28. WHERETO(Wiggins and McTighe, 2005)

29. Go to the MATH UNIT and look atLESSON ONE

30. Back to the PORTALclickAdvanced Search on Materials and Resources

31. Formative Assessment Tools & Strategies for 21st LearningBefore, During, and After the Learning Experience Back to the WIKI & Open the FormativeAssessment.doc

32. ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY “An assessment activity can help learning if it provides information to be used as feedback by teachers, and by their students in assessing themselves and each other, to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes formative assessment when the evidence is used to adapt the teaching work to meet the learning needs.” ( Black et al., 2003,p.2) http://www.skateboardingbulldog.com/