Engaging Classroom Assessments: The Making Standards Work Seminar Series
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October 2-3, 2008 |
Denver, Colorado |
What are the BENEFITS of this seminar?
Participants will:
- Understand the critical content and skills in the wording of academic content standards
- Discover clarity of what students must know and be able to do to more effectively plan instruction and assessment by unwrapping standards
- Learn strategies for aligning instruction and assessment to standards
Teachers need the tools to inspire student learning that results in improved achievement. Standards-based performance assessment is an effective means to improve student performance in the classroom and on high stakes standardized tests. In this seminar, you will create a standards-based performance assessment for immediate use in the classroom.
What are the LEARNING OBJECTIVES of this seminar?
During this three-day interactive seminar, participants will:
- Learn a proven process for identifying Power Standards.
- “Unwrap” the Power Standards and determine “Big Ideas” contained within those standards.
- Write these Big Ideas as “Essential Questions” to guide instruction and assessment.
- Create the first draft of an unwrapped standards-based performance assessment that includes the following components: interdisciplinary standards, engaging scenarios, performance tasks, and task-specific rubrics or scoring guides.
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