Engaging Classroom Assessment Seminar- Presented by Leadership and Learning Center LLC
SPPS teachers, coaches and administrator representatives from all content area met and participated in Engaging Classroom Seminars led by LLC in November 2009.
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Seminar Description
Engaging Classroom Assessment Seminar:
This two-day training focused on the effective design and use of performance assessments. Participants discovered why performance assessments are powerful standards-based instructional and assessment tool that make differentiation of instruction and assessment possible. Performance assessments reach all learners including special education, gifted and talented, below grade-level readers, as well as English language learners
The Research
Robert Marzano is one of many noted educational researcher that is cited in the two-day seminar. The content focuses on why and how designing, developing, and implementing performance assessments ensures quality standards-based instruction and ongoing assessment with improved student engagement and achievement.
What Are the BENEFITS of the Engaging Classroom Assessments training?
Designing and Developing Performance Assessments is a powerful practice that K-12 educators can use to effectively impart the academic content standards to their students including English language learners and special education students.
The LEARNING OBJECTIVES of the Engaging Classroom Assessments Seminar are:
Discover the rationale for narrowing the academic content standards to the Power Standards.
“Unwrap” these standards and determine Big Ideas or Essential Questions (enduring understandings) from them.
Write these Big Ideas as Essential Questions to guide instruction and assessment.
Design performance tasks to enhance student understanding.
Develop components of the assessment model, including interdisciplinary standards, engaging scenarios, performance tasks, and task-specific rubrics or scoring guides.
Learn the steps to creating a standards-based performance assessment that includes all components of the model.
Resources for Teachers:
Interactive Assessment Techniques - download below
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