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This resource explores the importance of leaders understanding and creating space for a shift in teaching methodologies. It emphasizes the need for ongoing, structured time for teachers to engage in protocols that support performance-based assessments. The resource also highlights the benefits of performance-based assessments in assessing skills, dispositions, and higher-order cognitive skills in students.
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“…without leaders understanding and holding the space for this shift in methodology, our graduates, all of our graduates, are less likely to possess the attributes that we all agree students need while they are still with us and for life. “ September 22, 2015 ED WEEK
FINAL WORD: A protocol
If we want students to do this….. Teachers have to have on-going, structured time for this.
protocols Great resource! http://www.nsrfharmony.org/free-resources/protocols/a-z
WHY PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENTS? THEY PROVIDE A WAY TO ASSESS SKILLS AND DISPOSITIONS AS WELL AS CONTENT. STUDENTS LEARN THROUGH THE PROCESS AS THEY ENGAGE IN IT. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS ALLOW US TO KNOW OUR STUDENTS IN WAYS WE SIMPLY DID NOT BEFORE.
WHY PERFORMANCE BASED ASSESSMENTS? THEY PROVIDE A WAY TO ASSESS HIGHER-ORDER COGNITIVE SKILLS, REQUIRING STUDENTS TO TRANSFER THEIR LEARNING TO NEW SITUATIONS AND/OR PROBLEMS. THEY ALLOW US TO ASSESS STANDARDS THAT CAN'T BE MEASURED WELL OR SOMETIMES AT ALL THROUGH A TRADITIONAL STANDARDIZED TEST.
one blueprint • Establish a vision for your graduates expressed in the form of a graduate profile, and • a culminating portfolio and defense that challenges students to live up to the school’s graduate profile, then • ahandful of performance assessments that synthesize the school’s curricular goals, incorporating applicable standards as well as 21stCentury skills to which you have committed.
your next steps • Graduate Profile • Meetings and Planning Time • Schedules • Protocols • Spotlights • Exhibitions • Defenses, Round Tables, Gateways, other? • Elevator Speeches • Other?
can you answer these? What will it look like when you have reached the goal? What are kids doing? What about adults? What might a day be like in the life of a student?