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Establishing Your Vision and Goal “The What” Summative Assessments

Establishing Your Vision and Goal “The What” Summative Assessments. 8/4/2011. Agenda. (5) Introduction (25) Summative Assessments & Your Vision (50) Independent Exploration (5) Wrap-up & Follow-up. Vision: Guiding Questions.

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Establishing Your Vision and Goal “The What” Summative Assessments

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  1. Establishing Your Vision and Goal“The What”Summative Assessments 8/4/2011

  2. Agenda (5) Introduction(25) Summative Assessments & Your Vision(50) Independent Exploration(5) Wrap-up & Follow-up

  3. Vision: Guiding Questions • What life-changing opportunities should your students have access to? What does that imply about what they need to accomplish this year? • What do your students need to master in terms of rigorous content in order to compete with kids in more affluent communities AND have access to key pathways to opportunity? • What long-term traits and mindsets will enable your students to achieve academically and pursue life-changing opportunities this year and ongoing? • How is my community and how are my students’ aspirations captured in my classroom?

  4. Where do summative assessments fit in? Pathways to Opportunity Academic Achievement Vision Big Goal Students Interests & Aspirations Long-Term Traits & Mindsets

  5. Academic Achievement Learning Goals IEP Goals Student Work Assessments What knowledge and skills must your students master this year to perform at or above the level of peers in more affluent communities and gain access to key pathways to opportunity?

  6. Academic Achievement: Assessments Learning Goals IEP Goals Student Work Assessments What knowledge and skills must your students master this year to perform at or above the level of peers in more affluent communities and gain access to key pathways to opportunity?

  7. How is this transformational for kids? What do your students need to master in terms of rigorous content in order to compete with kids in more affluent communities AND have access to key pathways to opportunity? Was passing your high school graduation test life changing for you? Remember Odalis Lopez.

  8. Baltimore City vs. Howard County Advanced = 80% Proficient = 40%

  9. How is this transformational for kids?

  10. How is this transformational for kids?

  11. Reactions? • What does this mean your responsibility is in preparing students for these tests? • How must this be a part of your vision for your classroom?

  12. Independent Exploration Explore the MD state assessment of the content area you are supporting (MSA or HSA) • What question types are represented? • How could a student easily arrive at a wrong answer? • What test taking skills do you foresee being critical to teach throughout the year? Explore a related assessment that is established as rigorous (NY Regents, Massachusetts MCAS, International Assessments APEC) • How are the assessments similar • Differences?

  13. Resources • MSA http://mdk12.org/assessments/k_8/index_c.html • HSA http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/index_b.html • NY Regents http://www.nysedregents.org/ • Massachusetts Questions MCAS Question Bank • AP Exams http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/subjects.html • TFANet [scroll to bottom] SAT All States, summative assessments • Pre-K DRDP-R http://www.sonoma4cs.org/files/drdprps.pdf • EDNET International Mathematics Question Bank http://www.apecknowledgebank.org/mathassessment/Search_Assessment.aspx

  14. Wrap up: First 8 Weeks • MSA & HSA represent the minimum bar of rigor in your classrooms • Think Question #3 out of 5. • 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. • Low on  MSA high on • Bloom’s Bloom’s • How will assessment items factor into your planning? • Long Term • Unit Level • Daily Lesson Level • Bottom Line: • MSA/HSA is a key pathway to opportunity for students, without which they will not have transformed life opportunities, but not in and of itself.

  15. Follow-up Action Steps • Bookmark & save your documents! • Reflect ongoing on how summative assessments will fit into the vision you have for your classroom Further Touchpoints re: Summative Assessments • Beginning of Year Conversation, Office Hours with M, TLD • New Teacher Orientation • First meetings at schools (!)

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