Good Morning and Welcome!

1. Good Morning and Welcome! Please take a copy of the handouts on the table and help yourself to coffee.

2. Collaboration Who teachers are to one another is as important as who they are to their students. In high-performing and improving schools in numerous students, collaboration is the norm.

3. The CAI Model Curriculum, Assessment, and Instruction Curriculum The “What” Standards Essential Questions Learning Targets Assessment The “Progress” Deciding what Is best to measure Student learning in Relation to the standards Instruction The methods used To facilitate Student learning Student Learning

4. Assessment and Student Motivation • Has a sense of control and choice • Gets frequent and specific feedback on performance • Encounters tasks that are challenging, but not threatening • Is able to self-assess accurately • Encounters learning tasks related to everyday life

5. Identifying the Standards in Your Course • What is a Standards-Based Course? • Standards • Identify essential state standards • Chosen standards must be assessed • Distinguish between multiple standard areas • Required Standards • Connections to other courses, vertically and horizontally • Information Technology Literacy Standards (ITLS)

6. Writing Learning Targets • What students should ‘know and be able to do’ in order to meet the standard • Specific to your course, but not dictating instructional strategies • How many? • There may be more than one learning target per standard • Occasionally, there are standards that do not need a learning target • Use“for example” and “such as” statements in learning targets, as needed

7. Testing Your Learning Targets • Define and provide examples of solids, liquids, gases • Using a variety of substances (e.g. water, alcohol, Jello) to demonstrate the capacity of each substance to exist as a solid, liquid, or gas • Explain how a substance can exist in different states—solid, liquid, or gas) “If students… Insert Target then they will… Insert Standard Understand that substances can exist in different states—solid, liquid, or gas”

8. What Assessment Types Match Your Learning Targets? • Assessment Types • CR=Constructed Response • SR=Selected Response • PA=Performance Assessment • O=Observation (formal) • Match the assessment type to the learning target • Most appropriate types? • Not appropriate types?

9. What Are Essential Questions? Essential Questions are those that… • Beg to be answered or debated • Cause students to think • Require students to explore or understand course content • Require students to use processing skills • Require students to learn new information • Critically analyze and combine new information with old • Cause students to use both skills and content to answer the question • Point toward a Learning Target(s) or Standard(s)

10. Writing Essential Questions What is a concept? • Broad and abstract • Represented by 1 or 2 words • Universal in application • Timeless, carries through the ages • Represented by different examples that share common attributes

11. Formative Anecdotal records Quizzes Essays Diagnostic tests Lab reports Observations Journals Summative Final exams State tests National tests Entrance exams Chapter tests Projects Final copies Examples

12. Pre-assessment • A method, strategy or process • Determining student’s current level of readiness • Prior mastery of knowledge • Prior mastery of understanding • Skills • Interest • Wanting to know • Wanting to understand • Wanting to do more

13. PossiblePre-assessments • Pretest • Inventory • Checklist • Observation • Self-evaluation • Questioning • Interviews

14. Ongoing Assessment • Uncovering student understandings • Uncovering student misunderstandings • Strategies for quick assessments

15. What do you know about time?

16. What do you know about_______________?

17. Please draw and write about___________________.

18. Exit Card

19. 3-2-1 Card

20. Exit Cards • Draw the orbit of the earth around the sun. • Label your drawing • What causes seasons?

21. Knowledge Rating Chart • I have never heard of this before • I have heard of this, but not sure how it works • I know about this and how to use it ________Direct object ________Indirect object ________Adjective

22. RAFT • Assume a ROLE • Consider an AUDIENCE • Write in a particular FORMAT • Examine a TOPIC

23. RAFT

24. Tiered Assignments In a heterogeneous classroom, a teacher uses varied levels of activities to ensure that students explore ideas at a level that builds on their prior knowledge and prompts continued growth. Student groups use varied approached to explore essential ideas.

25. Reflection The most important school based intervention for students is a challenging educational program that provides an optimal academic and social match for the students’ pace, level, and pattern on learning.