1. Glastonbury Public Schools brownc@glastonburyus.org

2.  Teacher Designed or Group Designed  Standards and Benchmark Based  Book Related  Assessed on a Regular Basis  Assessing students and assessing the program

3.  Formative  Summative  Normative

4.  Assessing all standards and benchmarks  Based on mapped curriculum  Related to MAP Assessments and IB assessments  Assessing student performance across a broad range of skills and knowledge  Needs to be an authentic performance or problem based performance

5.  Graded with a common rubric  Regularly scheduled mini assessments  Common midterms and finals  Electronic portfolio  Regular student feedback

6.  Relationship between all content standards and English language arts  Focus on speaking, listening and literacy  Relationships in languages being learned and students’ language backgrounds

7.  Common testing  Portfolio Assessments  Need to publish results  Students and parents need to see progress from grade to grade

8.  Develop alone …  Build a team  Formative and Summative  What content?  How related to broader curriculum?

9.  Pick a theme  Choose the domains to be assessed  Choose the venues for delivery  Write the rubric  Create the parts  Backward design for the formative and summative assessments

10.  Use of a design rubric to measure unit efficacy  Use of critical friends or colleagues within and across disciplines to guide development  Reflect and revise