Performance Tasks

1. Performance Tasks A Performance Task is a standardized assessment based on the Washington State Learning Standards. Because the CASAS test does not assess writing or speaking, we use a writing or speaking activity that we have already planned for our classes, and transform it into a Performance Task.

2. Currently, all integrated skills (core) teachers are required to do 1 Performance Task (P.T.) per quarter in writing or speaking.  It's your choice.

3. Evening RWG (.55) teachers should do 1 writing P.T. Evening SLG (.77) teachers should do 1 speaking P.T. Supplemental teachers are required to do a P.T. in writing or speaking for only those students who are not taking an integrated skills class. Focus on Writing teachers should do a writing P.T. and Speaking and Listening teachers should do a speaking P.T.

4. We turn in a copy of our Performance Task(s) and our student scores (1-4) at the end of the quarter along with our attendance rosters and WABERS paperwork. To find out more about how to score a P.T., check the faculty website-->PPP section--> Performance Tasks.

5. Open the speaking activity PT template How to Create a Speaking Performance Task

6. Using Jill’s helpful “Anatomy of the Curriculum Framework” for speaking Recall the Key Terms

7. From Jamila’s Speaking Standard Training session Review the Strands for Speaking (different than the strands for writing )

8. Consult the  Speaking Standard Curriculum Framework

9. Find your level

10. Consult your lesson plan

11. Fill out the top of the template

12. Then align the various activities and exercises in your lesson plan with the speaking strands and TLOs

13. In the chart on the template, write a brief description/narrative of your classroom activities or exercises from your lesson in the center column, next to the corresponding strands.

14. In the right column, identify the Teaching and Learning Objectives (TLOs) for each of the 4  strands. Then choose an example or 2 from the curriculum framework that illustrates the TLO(s)Write the TLO and example addressed in the column on the right.

15. The TLO will be written as a the letter S, then a number, letter, number, letter.For example, for your How English Works Strand of your Speaking PT you might write:S4E3dThe S stands for the Speaking StandardThe4 corresponds to the level of your class: level 4.TheE corresponds to the How English Works Strand.The3 corresponds to the TLO: “Produce understandable English and Identify pronunciation problems.“Thed corresponds to the example given of the TLO: “Produce common reduced speech (wanna, gonna) and linkages…"