Curriculum Design Crafting Objectives & Designing Assessments

Agenda Present Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Enduring Understandings Common Core - overview Crafting objectives Linking to standards/goals Assessment Formative 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: 43 states have adopted (Alaska, Indiana, Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, & Virginia)

CCSS in the classroom 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-explainPerformance “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 EssayProject 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

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. 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