Learning menus: Desserts: Summative Assessments

1. Learning menus:Desserts:Summative Assessments

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3. What’s a Learning Menu? • Differentiation strategy • Menu: student choice of learning activities • Different points for different types/levels of tasks • Divided into sections (appetizer, entrée, etc.) • Students choose options from each section • Options are tasks or activities for students to complete in order to earn that set of points

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5. Unit Menu Template Beverages: Vocabulary Appetizers: Background Information Soup/Salad: Supplementary Texts and Tasks Entrée: Anchor Text and Tasks Dessert: Summative Assessment

6. Dessert: Summative Assessments • Determine what students have learned • Use essential questions • Assess student performance or knowledge of learning goals and objectives • Differentiate by products, tools, and processes • Rubrics

7. Types of Summative Assessments • Written, Oral, or Performance Product • Tests in any format • Projects • Presentations • Demonstrations • Service Learning/Teaching Experience • Portfolios • Evaluation/ Reflection

8. Resources for Summative Assessments • Project Ideas: • Jon Mueller’s Authentic Assessment Toolbox • http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/tasks.htm#types • http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/innovative-projects-lessons • Essays/Multimedia Essays • Student Examples: http://eng102branscomb.wikispaces.com/Student+Multimedia+Essays

9. More Resources • Service Learning Projects • http://www.servicelearning.org/ • http://www.iseek.org/education/service-learning.html • Portfolios • http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/197171/chapters/The-Types-of-Portfolios.aspx • http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/toolbox/portfolios.htm

10. What’s in an Assessment? • Purpose: determine what students have learned (content and skills) • Format alternatives: students choose how to show learning • Focus: goals/ objectives and essential questions • Rubric given before assessment due- used as a guide • http://ed.fnal.gov/lincon/el_assessment.shtml [educator guide]

11. Rubric Resources • Comprehensive list of online rubric resources • http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/assessment-rubrics

12. Assessments within Learning Menus • Offer two or three options with the opportunity for students to be creative • Differentiate by learning style, technology tools used, or media created • Differentiate by literacy skills • Provide rubrics and guides or models for each • Be specific about what you are looking to assess: content and skills • Include a reflection piece for students to offer feedback • Integrate literacy skills into the project

13. Up Next: Demonstration Unit • Unit from a freshman literature class • Includes overview of the unit creation process including gathering and organizing resources • Beverage, appetizer, soup/salad, entrée, and dessert options • Technology tools and literacy strategies • Menu presentation • Tips and strategies for creating your own unit learning menu

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