2. Process for 2016-17 Field Testing with 500+ Teachers
Gathering and analyzing feedback
Conducting Focus Groups / Review Sessions
Revising and Editing of Units
Developing Online / Blended Professional Learning Resources

3. Process for

4. Field Testing Process AND We recommend:
a minimum of one day of Instructional Strategies Professional Learning
AND
A minimum of one day prior to each unit to unpack it and plan for instruction
Feedback from field testers may include:
Brief Online survey
Photos, videos, Notes on Units
Examples of Student work
Survey of Enacted Curriculum

5. Revi s ion s

6. What Does it Cover?

8. What does it Look like?

9. What does it Look like?

10. All 21 Units on MVU Website
Grade 3 Unit 4 Example: LrmtboLqPPbuVJp5TmtTDcNj5TerHJxY3UmFNFG qU/edit?usp=sharing

11. How you can Get Involved
Still adding more field testing teachers / schools / districts
Looking for Editors
Contact Info:
Darcy Mcmahon Matt Samocki
(989) (989)

12. Three Dimensional Performance Assessment
Project Update

13. Where Have We Been?
Planning team of Science Consultants, Assessment Consultants, MDE Science Assessment, and Graduate Assistants
Pulled together an amazing team of Teacher Task Authors
Developed PE Bundles to target particular practices (Modeling, Investigation, Argument, and Explanation)
Developed performance task template

14. Where Have We Been? Conducted a five-day session in August
Unpacked PE Bundles
Developed Evidence Statements
Developed 10 Performance Assessment tasks (Grades 3-12)
Developed supporting formative assessments for each task
Developed a Checkbric for each Performance Assessment Task

15. What Has Been Accomplished?
A Task Template has been developed
A process for developing Performance Tasks has been created
Ten Three Dimensional Science Performance Assessment Tasks have been drafted
Tasks are in a LiveBinder
Teachers are piloting and revising

16. What is Coming Up? Task Authors: 30 hours of online learning
Developing second performance tasks
2 days of face-to-face professional learning
January 31ST in Shepherd, MI
April 24TH in Allegan, MI
Piloting tasks and revising

17. What is Coming Up? Planning Team:
Guiding online and face-to-face professional learning
Reviewing items
Collecting feedback from item pilots
Conducting Train-the-Trainers session
December and January 5-6 in Shepherd, MI
Looking for more groups that want to learn the process
Entering tasks into Illuminate and other online platform

18. How You Can Get Involved . . .
Reviewing Tasks
Train the Trainers
Contact Info:
Darcy Mcmahon Matt Samocki
(989) (989)