Curriculum DesignCrafting Objectives & Designing Assessments

Agenda

Present Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Enduring Understandings

Common Core - overview

Crafting objectivesLinking to standards/goals

AssessmentFormative vs. Summative

Enduring Understandings

What we want students to know (facts, vocab, formulas, events, sequences, etc.)

What we want them to remember/understand (big ideas)

What we want them to be able to do (skills)

Using the Common Core

The need for a re-haul of standards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY2mRM4i6tY

43 states have adopted (Alaska, Indiana, Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, & Virginia)

CCSS in the classroom

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/kindergarten-counting-cardinality-lesson

Crafting objectives

Big secret….

How can you teach to your goals/understandings/standards?

How will you prove it?

Assessment

Pre-assessment allows you to know where they are coming from

Formative assessment is checking in on how they are doing

Summative assessment give you the final picture

Examples of Pre-Assessment

Paper and pen test

“Who can tell me...”

“List five things you know about...”

“Have you ever heard/done/used...”

Examples of Formative Assessment

Exit cards

Practice problems/activities

Tell me..., Write down...

Discuss

Explain to each other/ Teach each other

Write a letter to a friend about...

Make a play about...

3,2,1’s

Who am I, Taboo, Words You Might Hear

More examples of Formative Assessment

Justified response

Predict-observe-explain

Performance

“any good activity could be used as an assessment and any good assessment could be used as a lesson, as they are different sides of the same coin” (Ayala, 2005).

Examples of Summative Assessment

Final Exam

Essay

Project

Should only be 5-10% of total grade!!

Assessment: in deeper

“Too often, educational tests, grades, and report cards are treated by teachers as autopsies when they should be viewed as physicals”

Doug Reeves

“The score a student receives on a test is more dependent on who scores the test and how they score it than it is on what the student knows and understands.”

Marzano, Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work

Rick Wormeli on Formative & Summative Assessment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxFXjfB_B4

Assessment OF Learning

Summative, final declaration of proficiency, literacy, mastery

Grades used

Little impact on learning from feedback

Assessment FOR Learning

Grades not needed

Feedback is used

Make adjustments in teaching as a result of data

Provide opportunities for student for self and peer assessment

What not to do in assessing...according to Wormeli

Avoid non-academic factors (behavior, attendance, effort)

Avoid penalty for multiple attempts

Avoid grading practice

Avoid withholding assistance

Avoid extra credit

Avoid group grades

Avoid grading on a curve

Avoid 0 for work not done

Creating an Assessment Tool

Who’s your audience?

What are the objectives?

How/What ways can students show that they have met those objectives or learning goals?

What will it look like if they only partially meet those goals?

Can they tell you what they know by...

Giving their own definition (words, pictures, song, story)

Provide an example from their own life, from a known story, song, show.

Identify characteristics of (in a list, what is apart of this concept?)

Create your assessment!

Before you create your lessons!

Review:Who’s your audience?

What are the objectives?

How/What ways can students show that they have met those objectives or learning goals?

What will it look like if they only partially meet those goals?

Your task....

Create an assessment tool that can be used on one of your peers that is teaching this week

Go assess their students (or the instructor)

Report back on how it went and what you learned.

Dig in Deeper: Your task

In groups of 2 (1 group of 3), take the topic assigned to you and the standard and find the overlap.

www.corestandards.org

Pick one standard and brainstorm activities that would address that standard which you could use in your summer program.

(1)Reading: Literature, (2)Reading: Informational Text, (3)Reading: Foundational Skill, (4)Writing, Speaking & Listening, (5)Language