Fall, 2015 SPCD 527: Assessment for Diverse Exceptional Learners

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Topic: Introduction August 19, 2015

Announcements 1.Syllabus available on learn.unm, and instructor website. 2.Readings will be added to learn.unm as semester progresses. 3.We will use learn.umm for: Readings Submitting assignments

Recurring Elements APA Tip of the Day Short interactive presentations Work sessions Small and whole group discussions Student responsibility for sharing resources Options for readings Quick writes Minute papers Qualitative mid-semester evaluation UNM Web site ( Learn.umm.edu

Quick questions or quandaries?

Julia Ann Scherba de Valenzuela, Ph.D.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know 1.What are you drinking? Tea 2.What are you wearing? Shoes 3.What are you doing? Listening

Questions? Need appointment? (505)

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Who are you? I am… I am a… Procedures: 1.Make a list. 2.Make a pie.

Quick Write: To what extent do you think most people see you as you see yourself. How might that be the same? How might that be different? Why?

Text, lies, and videotape. Volunteer to read aloud. Whole group: Your thoughts? Small group: What does this have to do with assessment? Whole group: Where do you/we go from here this semester?

The Importance of Story "Stories are important to people, politics, and education. Stories are how people make sense of themselves and their worlds. In young children's spontaneous stories that they act out as they play, we can see how they believe people relate to one another, who they hope to become, and how they will behave. We can see adolescents play roles in their own and other people's stories in order to figure out where they fit into their ever-expanding worlds. As adults, the true and imaginary stories we wish to tell and believe suggest what we value most in this world…

The Importance of Story, cont. …In a real sense, stories make people. For this reason, stories are political. Whose stories get told? What can those stories mean? Who benefits from their telling? These are political questions because they address the ways in which people's identities -- their beliefs, attitudes, and values -- are created and maintained. These identities determine how we live together in and out of schools as much as school rules or governmental laws." (Shannon, 1995, p. xi)

Topic: History of assessment and introduction to criterion- referenced assessment Read: Plata, 2011 and Gould, 1981, chapter 5 Looking ahead:

Please take a minute for the minute paper. And don’t forget to turn your phone back on.