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PLC Question 2:. How Will We Know if Our Students Are Learning?. By: Campbell County Schools. How Will We Know if Our Students Are Learning?. Discussion Item Three – What do you do with the results of assessments?.
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PLC Question 2: How Will We Know if Our Students Are Learning? By: Campbell County Schools
How Will We Know if Our Students Are Learning? Discussion Item Three – What do you do with the results of assessments? Discussion Item One – What’s in place now that demonstrates if students have mastered concepts? Discussion Item Two – How often do you assess? Discussion Item Four – How often do you discuss those results with your PLC?
Partner Talk: What does the following quote mean to you? “Without data, you are just another person with an opinion.”
If We Implemented What We Know to be Best Practice… • Common Curriculum -Learn What? Teachers must come together to agree on the “Learn What” • Common Pacing -Implementing the Common Curriculum collaboratively • Common Assessment–Assessments designed around the common curriculum to monitor student learning
The Power of Common Assessments One of the most powerful, high-leverage strategies for improving student learning available to schools is the creation of frequent, common, high-quality assessments by teachers who are working collaboratively to help a group of students develop agreed-upon knowledge and skills (Fullan, Stiggins, 2005). Such assessments serve a distinctly different purpose than the state tests that have become the norm in North America.
“Great schools “row as one”; they are quite clearly in the same boat, pulling in the same direction in unison. The best schools are tightly aligned communities marked by a palpable sense of common purpose and shared identity among staff- a clear sense of “we.” By contrast, struggling schools feel fractured; there is a sense that people work in the same school but not toward the same goals.” -DuFour
Review of Enduring Skills and Assessment Data Looking through the big picture data that is available, rate your current students on those enduring skills to share with next year’s teacher. When possible use data to support your ratings and share any related anecdotal information that could be useful for these teachers to know. You can locate your MAP data at nwea.org KPREP data at http://applications.education.ky.gov/src/