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Learn about Performance-Based Instruction, changes in the classroom, incorporating PBI, performance tasks, assessments, and more to enhance student learning.
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Performance-Based Instruction What is it? What are some changes I should think about? How can I incorporate PBI in my classroom?
Performance Based Classroom How well do you?
What is a Performance-Based Classroom? With a partner, come up with 5 words/phrases that could be used to describe a Performance-Based Classroom. Put one word/phrase on each sticky note.
What is a Performance Based Classroom? • desired results • what students will know and be able to do • framework for student learning
Changes… • standards dictate plans • students and teachers use a common language related to the standards • students and teachers use a variety of resources • students are actively engaged in performance tasks that directly relate to standards and the realworld
What Does a Performance-Based Classroom Look Like? • Essential questions are posted in the room • Key vocabulary and a common language related to the standards are usedand displayed • Teachers and students use a variety of resources • Lesson plans include both guided and independent practice • Lesson plans include balanced assessments • “Taking a nip and a tuck here and there in a garment is a beginning, but alterations are necessary if the garment is to fit comfortably and be wearable.” • ~ Gayle H. Gregory & Carolyn Chapman *Handout
What is a performance standard? • ideas • concepts • facts • skills/processes • all are pieces of the standard
Changes… • level of difficulty • delivery of instruction • fewer standards are covered but they are covered with more depth • highlight nouns and verbs
What is Performance Based Instruction? Know Content Do Skills, Processes Use Thinking, Reasoning, Application + CommunicateDiscussing Connections = Performance-Based Classroom
What is a strategy? • presentation of the content • learning activities for the student
Changes… • alter activities with various strategies • differentiate • include collaborative learning opportunities • vary time limits • use tiered assignments • use different levels of questions*
What is a performance task? • how students show what they know • how we know that they know • how students will be able to demonstrate what they know
Changes… • tied directly to standards • student choice • group work • independent study • direct application to a real world task • longer period of time to complete • have more than one right answer/solution • preview task criteria*
Types of Products • Written products: proposals, poems, brochures, letters, lab reports, etc. • Concrete Products: building a model, repairing an engine, creating artistic representations, making films, etc. • Verbal Products: speeches, songs, monologues, presentations, etc. • Remember Multiple Intelligences
Examples of Performance Tasks • Draw a comic strip to show the events in the chapter • Make a timeline of events in a book, chapter, historical event, lab, etc. • Compare _____ with _____ • Prepare a flow chart to show the sequence of… • Design a questionnaire about… • Construct a graph to show… • Develop a list of criteria you would use to judge…and indicate priority ratings
What is an assessment? • start with assessment • inform instruction & lesson design • document students’ movement from knowledge & skills to critical reasoning & communication
Changes… • self-assessments (student & teacher) • explicit scoring system (rubric) • balanced assessments (summative & formative) • test procedural knowledge vs. drill & repetition • fit better with standards-based & skills-based education • descriptive feedback
Traditional Assessment Process choose topic instruction test; essay; project grade/feedback Standards-based Assessment Process select standard(s) design ongoing and performance assessment determine instructional practices use data from assessment to reteach or move on Final Thoughts
Your Turn! You now have the opportunity to complete a performance task!
Performance Tasks G R A S P S • What is theGoalin the scenario? • What is theRole? • Who is the Audience? • What is your Situation (context)? • What is the Performancechallenge? • By what Standards will work be judged in the scenario? Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design, 2004
How can I use GRASPS? With a partner, think about how you can use a performance task in your classroom (GRASPS) next week. Share.
PERFORMANCE-BASED INSTRUCTION Instruct Reflect Cobb County School District
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