USING THE KNOWLEDGE AND THINKING RUBRICS

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College Readiness Defined

Literacy Goals of Common Core Standards 1.Grappling with Complex Texts - Ensuring students are prepared to handle the growing complexity of text found in college, career, and daily life. 2.Using Text as Evidence - Ensuring students can cite evidence to support positions and present careful analyses, well- defended claims, and clear information. 3.Building Knowledge Through Text - Ensuring students can build content knowledge through text from different disciplines and develop the reading and writing skills needed to learn independently.

How do we ensure our students are “prepared” using Project Based Learning? Focus Question

Three Essential Components Rigorous, External Standards Looking at Student Work Individual Written Assessments of Knowledge

Knowledge and Thinking Rubrics

Key Learning Partners SCALE designs and develops performance assessment products and solutions for states, districts and educational foundations. They are rubric experts- designing rubrics and holding trainings for organizations from EPIC, to the Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper Learning Partners (including NTN) and beyond. Envision Learning Partners supports schools in developing systems of performance assessments aligned with outcomes that matter. They created the original rubrics with SCALE and continue to support schools in using rubrics and learning defenses to drive deeper learning.

Getting Familiar With the Rubrics Glossary of Rubric Terms Review the terms and definitions. Any questions?

Getting Familiar With the Rubrics Review the rubrics. Look across the top at the score levels. Look at the titles and guiding questions for each dimension (row). Follow one line of indicators (bullets) across the score levels and notice the differences from level to level. Note that this is called a learning trajectory. Underline a few words we may need to become calibrated; words that might be tricky to define or we might disagree.

Common Core and the Rubrics Analyze the overlap between the Common Core and the rubrics. Look at the appropriate CCSS. Examine overlaps and differences. In what ways do the rubrics align with the CCSS?

Share Out and Reflect How do the Knowledge and Thinking rubrics help you assess college readiness standards such as the Common Core? What are your take-aways from exploring the rubrics?