Strategies for MDPT Success On Demand Writing Made Simple Sonja Gayer Southwest Plains Regional Service Center sonja.gayer@swplains.org Glad to be here. Attitude determines altitude! Kelly asked me to apologize for not being able to attend and present this information. Each of you are important and have a huge job to do this year. There are kids just waiting to start school so you can impact their lives. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK WITH THEM! About me… About them…Rocket Activity Questions: Who are the new teachers? Elementary teachers? Junior High teachers? Who has junior high kids themselves? Bless these two groups! Classified staff? High school teachers? Loves chocolate? Administrators? 25 years or more? Taught/lived in another state? Give a state assessment for the first time this/last year? Have a Twitter account? Who is glad it’s Wednesday (hump day)? Ran a marathon? Spent entire career in same district? ESL endorsed? Raised on “Hee Haw” Had a rotary phone? Phone on a party-line? Grandparents? Noodle My Bonnie – letter B set or stand

M D P T Performance task Multiple disciplines Engagement with resources Compose a writing Definition of MDPT: A performance task incorporating multiple disciplines which requires students to engage with texts, images, diagrams, and other resources and then compose. PT- more time to grade. Asking each school have volunteers to grade. The training takes 1.5 hours then each volunteer a total of ½ day (including the training). MD- not just ELA Compose – on demand (right now)

Types of Writing Grades 3 – 5 Grades 6 – 12 Narrative Informational/Expository Opinion Grades 6 – 12 Argument Mixed types within each grade level. Randomly distributed. The window is Feb. 16- Mar 10. Early so it can be scored while teachers are still on contract.

Getting on the Same Page What it is NOT What is IS A week-long, process-based writing task like the old Kansas Writing Assessment with write/edit/revise. The opportunity for students to demonstrate the full range of their writing abilities An on-demand performance task aligned to current Kansas standards A “snapshot” of a student’s critical thinking and writing in an on-demand environment For 2015, a field test

Where is Our Common Ground? The MDPT will seek to gain a score for two content areas: ELA and Science or ELA and HGSS, depending on the year and grade. In some grades, there will only be an ELA score. ELA Standards Science Standards HGSS Standards Overtime serve as dual scores. We don’t know if it will be a composite score or how it will be distributed.

MDPT Window: February 16-March 10 Review: Window MDPT Window: February 16-March 10 The window was moved up, due to the need to have responses scored by teachers and ready in time to be combined with scores from the machine-scored part of the assessment.

2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task Possible Writing Types Review: Prompts 2016 Multidisciplinary Performance Task Grade 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 (Field Test for ELA only) 11 Topic Variety Science HGSS Possible Writing Types OA IE N  N OA = Opinion or Argument IE = Informative or Explanatory N = Narrative

MDPT Task Session 1: Read/Interpret/Take Notes (about 2-3 resources) Provide through KITE Note Paper/Pencil Guiding Questions provided to direct thinking 2nd Bullet critical for Success in Session 2: We will learn how to teach students to deconstruct those questions today. Vocabulary instruction is critical to success. As well as teaching students how to capture the critical content/information and place in into some kind of graphic organizer for later use. 2 texts and 1 graphic Scaffold with 1 text; 1 text & 1 graphic; then all resources - and focus on a single type of writing then add others. Importance of teaching note-taking and providing students with graphic organizer – make this a habit during all writing assignments/tasks.

MDPT Task Session 2 Provide a prompt List of reminders aligned to rubrics What will it LOOK like? Activity 2 – Students will be given a prompt in which they will be asked to write ONE of the following: Narrative piece Expository/Informational piece Opinion/Argumentative piece Students will also be provided a list of “reminders” aligned to the rubrics to help ensure they adhere to the scoring criteria.

Additional Information Each session is 30 – 50 minutes, untimed Use notes from Session 1 Continued access to resources on KITE Students needing more time should be allowed more time (ESL). Session 1 & 2 vs. Day 1 & 2.

More Information A combination of (approximately 2-3) short, related texts Grades 3-5: about 750 words total Grades 6-8: about 1,000 words total At least one graphic (e.g., chart, map, timeline, story arc) Guiding questions Prompt Some tasks vary slightly from the information above. For example, most HGSS-related tasks will not include a graphic. Guiding Questions: Students are not required to answer the guiding questions, and they will not be scored. Number listed is the number of words that text will contain...not how much the students will need to write. Importance of scaffolding the number of words.

Completed MDPT Follow prompt, consider rubrics Approximately Grades 3-5: 1-3 paragraphs Grades 6-12: 3-5 paragraphs Composition portion completed in single session It likely won’t: Look like a polished piece of writing Be comparable to longer pieces of writing completed during process=based, multi-day assignments Take the student several hours to complete

MDPT RUBRICS Available to download from SWPRSC website: http://www.swprsc.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/College%20%26%20Career%20Ready%7CEnglish/Language%20Arts Follow this path to get to them: www.swprsc.org College & Career Ready tab English/Language Arts System wide integration of MDPT. Scaffolding them. 6-trait K-HS. These are 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 and different. Conventions is the only consistent item. Rubrics are most powerful with in the students’ hands. Subscribe to our weebly to get K-2 rubrics and prompts. Students are scored holistically. MDPT Rubrics need to be on our website and

Review: Number of Prompts per Grade Field Test: Many prompts Operational Test: One prompt per grade What does this mean? Test security is paramount. Last year, many prompts were field tested at each grade so that CETE would have a bank of prompts and resources to use in subsequent testing years. Now that this assessment is operational for grades 3-8 and 11, one prompt per grade level has been selected, and all students in a given grade will receive the same resources and the same prompt each year.

Review: Scoring • Human-scored by Kansas teachers • Online training (approx. 2 hours) • Online scoring (approx. 3 mins per response) • Districts asked to score 1.5 times the number of MDPTs their students take • “Score your own” is not a thing. The scoring window will open closer to the closing of the MDPT assessment window. Information about scoring registration and training will be distributed as it becomes available.

Professional Learning… Innovative Solutions SWPRSC Professional Learning… Innovative Solutions Let me know if you have questions: sonja.gayer@swplains.org If you have any questions, please ask or you can always email Kelly.