Information for the Presenter

1. Information for the Presenter • Before you present, make sure you have… • Internet connection • Speakers • Projector/Smart Board Suggested Schedule: 8:00-8:30 Frame and Overview 8:30-9:00 Smarter Balanced Assessments 9:00-10:00 A Closer Look at Items 10:00 – 10:15 Break 10:15-11:00 Performance Task * This presentation contains several links- you must be in Slide Show view for the links to work. *Prior to the presentation, go to www.discoveryeducation.com You can use your own log-in, or use: Log on: amy.lehew Password: math123 Then copy when you click the link below, (located on slide 16) the DE science lab will automatically load. http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=7351979c-6220-406c-91c0-1dc850e85a01

2. Information for the Presenter Materials Handouts: - these will be provided 1.A Closer Look at Smarter Balanced Item Specifications (1 per participant- choose appropriate version (For 3-5 Teachers, or For K-2/Special Area Teachers) 2.Smarter Balanced Items (20 copies of each page) 3.Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks- (2 copies per table.) Materials - 1.Post-it notes 2.Chart paper (Tools I use frequently, Tools I want to explore further) 3. Grid Paper for Items and Tasks Ask Teachers to Bring: Common Core for ELA and Mathematics

3. Frame and Overview 30 Minute introduction. This 30-minute intro will contain an overview of our goals and purpose for the Waiver Days this year. It will be similar to the overview shared at the Leadership Conference in July. Look for a link to this intro the first week in August.

4. Next Generation Assessments Common Core/Essential Standards

5. By the end of this session, you will… • Realize the need for change in assessments • Be aware of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia • Interact with Item Specifications for Next Generation Assessments • Identify the impact Next Generation Assessments will have on instruction

6. Assessing What?

7. Imagine the Possibilities With NO CONSTRAINTS, how would YOU assess student understanding? Turn and talk with a partner. What would THE IDEAL assessments look like?

8. Next Generation Assessments • Aligned to the Common Core State Standards • Created with expectations linked to international benchmarks. • Measure student achievement and growth in literacy and mathematics in grades 3-12. • Designed to support students in developing essential 21st century skills to get students College and Career Ready.

9. What Skills will students need to be “College and Career Ready?”

10. Implementation Timeline NC COMMONCORE EOG 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 Smarter Balanced Assessments 2014-2015

11. Using Technology to Assess How can we use technology to assess greater depth in understanding?

12. Using Technology to Assess How did the student demonstrate her ability to make meaning and draw inferences in this example?

13. Authentic Tools Write an example (or draw a picture) of an authentic online tool on a sticky note. Generate as many examples as you can (use a different sticky note for each).

14. Authentic Tools

15. Technology Enhanced (TE) Designed to encourage classroom use of authentic tools.

16. Look Familiar?

17. A Closer Look With a partner … • Choose an item (but don’t write on it) • Solve and complete the appropriate spaces on your chart • Talk with your partner about the item • Continue until you have experienced all 10 items

18. A Closer Look at Smarter Balanced Items For use by 3-5 Teachers

19. A Closer Look at Smarter Balanced Items For use by K-2 and Special Area Teachers

20. What Skills will students need to be “College and Career Ready?”

21. Turn and Talk What changes in instruction are needed in order for our students to be successful with Next Generation Assessments?

22. Brain Break

23. How do you think this student did on this exam?

24. Teacher Comment… “There were two possible answer choices: A (True) and B (False). You chose C for all 100 questions in an obvious attempt to get lucky with at least a quarter of the answers. It’s as if you didn’t look at a single question. Unfortunately, this brings your final grade in this class to failing. See you next year and may God have mercy on your soul. P.S. If all else fails, go with B from now on. B is the new C.”

25. Next Generation Assessments How will Next Generation Assessment items be scored?

26. What About Technology? NC is an active participant in the SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) • Test Administration, • Validation and Psychometrics, • Technology Approach, and • Transition to Common Core SBAC workgroups.

27. A Closer Look at Smarter Balanced Item Specifications PERFORMANCE TASKS

28. Performance Tasks With your group, read through and begin to work on the Performance Task at your table.

29. Performance Tasks • What do you notice? • What 21st Century Skills are needed to solve these tasks?

30. Next Generation Assessments How can we ensure our students will be successful on performance tasks? With your team, discuss your role in ensuring student success.

31. Want to Know More? http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ http://www.parcconline.org/ http://www.pearsonassessments.com/pai/ai/Products/NextGeneration/roadmap.htm Amy.lehew@cms.k12.nc.us