Wrapping Our Heads Around the Extended

StandardsDublin City Schools Alternate Assessment &

Extended Standards Committee

Alternate Assessment and Extended Standards

CommitteePurpose:

1) To streamline communication and disseminate information from the Ohio Department of Education to you

2) To provide professional development on the extended standards and Alternate Assessment to staff across the district

3) To support staff throughout the Alternate Assessment process

Committee MembersKatje Bowers, IS at Karrer MS

Kim Lewis, IS at Grizzell MS

Lisa Orem, IS at Thomas Elementary

Kristie Stuber, IS at Grizzell MS (and Vizzle Teacher of the Year!)

Megan Tucker, IS at Sells MS

Melissa Klosterman-Lando, Student Services Coordinator

Let it ALL out! What do you loathe about the extended

standards?

Look on the bright side…What are positives about the extended

standards?

Welcome to our Wiki!Alternate Assessment & Extended Standards Wiki

Extended Standards and Activities TemplateInteractive Message Board Key ideasAsk questionsShare resources

How to join our Wiki…You will receive an invitation from Kim Lewis via email If you have or have used a wiki it will automatically come

up IF NOT:

Choose Dublin City Schools Staff from dropdown boxPut in last name_first nameEnter in first class passwordGo to My Wikis and select Alternate Assessment

From this point forward…bookmark aascd.wiki.dublinschools.net

Extended Standards and Activities Template

Extended Standards

Common Core or Ohio Academic Content Standards

Leveled Activities/Tasks, Accommodations and Assistive Technology

Sample Extended Math Standard Activity G.68.2c: Find the area of figures by counting unit squares

Level A

Count unit squares in figures on worksheets to find area (such as how many tiles are needed to replace a bathroom floor, or the size of a back yard to mow the lawn)

Level B

Count unit squares in a shape using 1:1 correspondence (such as how many carpet squares will fit on the floor in a small room)

Level C

Use a switch to count the number of blocks needed to fill a shape (such as how many mini cereal boxes can fit in a cardboard box)

Sample Social Studies Extended Standard Activity

GEO.68.4c Locate on a map the route between two locations

Level A Google earth

from home to a common destination. Which route is shorter/longer?

Using mapquest, directions from home to a common destination. Which route is shorter/longer?

Level B Find map of

common destinations. Draw line from entrance to desired location.

Draw line on map from home to common destination

Level C Route from

classroom to bathroom

Route from classroom to specials classes

Route to specific department in grocery store

Sample Science Extended Standard Activities

LS.68.12 Make family tree

Level A ID traits that

are different in each generation

ID traits that are similar in each generation

Using the vocabulary given to explain how the traits are passed down by generation

Level B ID parents and

one generation

ID traits that are similar in those generations

Level C Use pictures to

identify something that is similar in one generation (ie. Hair color, eye color)

Sample English Language Arts (ELA) Extended Standard ActivitiesRL.35.1 Inferential & Literal Questions

Level A After completing

a story, create a fill in the blank sentence game to answer questions based on passage.

Give large word bank for students to fill in correct answer

Level B After completing

a story, create a fill in the blank sentence game to answer questions based on passage.

Give a word bank of 3 words to fill in blank

Level C After completing

a story, create a fill in the blank sentence game to answer questions based on passage.

Give a choice of 3 pictures or use communication device to answer questions

What we know about the newly revised Alternate

Assessment…It has a new name! Alternate Assessment for

Students with Significant Cognitive DisabilitiesDecision Framework is the same as previous yearsNo longer a collection of evidence. It is an

assessment to be completed within a window of time.

Staff must attend training at the ESC this winter in order to be a “Test Administrator”

Ethics of the assessment are of the utmost importance

The Assessment is all in the presentation…

How do you present your lessons and instruction to students? Are you scaffolding in the say / do format?

Here is a ____.Look at / touch the ___.

You have a choice of directives…“Show me” or “Tell me”… it’s up to you!Make a choice about how your student best

responds and be consistent with that mode of response.

“Tell me”The child responds

verbally with their response

“Show me”The student responds

physically with the response mode that works

for them

Just remember…It’s up to you to decide which response mode you

want your student to use.Then practice, practice, practice your delivery

style in as many ways as possible. Instruct your Instructional Paraprofessionals on

the delivery mode and have them practice in ALL settings!

It’s all about your style and the student’s response mode

Assistive TechnologyCommunication Devices

SwitchesPicture SymbolsWord Processor

Alternate KeyboardModified Keyboard

MagnificationLow Tech items

Pointer

AT items should be something the student is currently using to access the curriculum. In addition, these items

must be listed in the student’s IEP.

ALLOWABLE ACCOMMODATIONS

Sign Language Picture Symbols Communication Devices Increase or Decrease Size Rehearse movement needed for response, use object to point. Accommodations can NOT alter the INTENT of the response (i.e.

you can NOT lead them to a response) and should be used COMMONLY in the student’s instruction ETHICAL USE of TESTS

p 26-31, Directions for Administration Manual Spring 2013 for the Alternate Assessment forStudents with Signficant Cognitive Disabilities

Alternate Assessment Portalhttp://oh.portal.airast.org/Oh_Alt/default.html

Reflection and Moving Forward

It’s the first year of the assessment and the extended standards. Do the best that you can!