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Parent Learning Morning November 6th 2007
October 2009
Preparing
Getting Set-Up……
Fill in your first name on a name plate
Choose a spokesperson for your team
Choose a facilitator to manage your materials
Only the facilitator can distribute materials from the folder on your desk
Assessment in School
Essential or Guiding Questions:
What is assessment?
What is the purpose of assessment?
How should we assess?
What should we assess?
What is the relationship between learning and assessment?
Curriculum Questions
What constitutes ‘curriculum’?
What we want learners to understand
How learners will acquire understanding
How learners will demonstrate understanding
The Written Curriculum
The Taught Curriculum
The Learned Curriculum
Curriculum Questions
Where does our curriculum begin?
What are our learning standards?
What should we teach?
What should we assess?
What evidence of learning should we record?
What tools should we use to evaluate?
What should we report?
What data should we use to evaluate and modify our teaching?
Ensuring A Viable K-12 Curriculum
Clearly indicates what ALL learners will have access to.
Insists that all learning has value beyond the school.
Is consistent with latest understanding about how learning happens.
Clearly indicates what will form evidence of learning.
Is aligned (standards, unit plans, materials, assessment policy, instruction)
Supports the teachers’ delivery of intending learning.
Emphasizes conceptual understanding.
Sets high expectations.
Provides a mechanism for constant revision.
The Curriculum……
Curriculum Components
School philosophy
Student dispositions
Essential student skills
Teaching strategy
Standards (benchmarks to measure learning)
Assessment tasks
Resources
Scope & Sequence (What & When)
Unit plan
Reflection (school, student & parent)
Curriculum Components
School philosophy
Student dispositions
Essential student skills
Teaching strategy Standards
Assessment
Resources
Scope & Sequence Unit plan
Reflection
WHAT HOWWHETHERWHY
Curriculum Outline
Big Understandings (overarching philosophy) - ISP’s mission statement, IB Learner Profile disposition(s) - curriculum imperatives or guidelines
Essential Questions - to help us identify desired learning outcomes and skills to be developed
Knowledge & Skill Standards - identifying criteria or developing rubrics to measure learning outcomes - deciding upon a topic; identifying essential knowledge areas Assessments - developing appropriate tasks to develop student learning - using a variety of possible assessment tasks
Teaching, or Unit, Plan - structured classroom delivery; identifying student activities
Learning Opportunities
For visual learners………..
A film!
Formative Assessment‘Formative assessment…is a feature of all teaching and learning in the (International Baccalaureate) MYP and is viewed as a necessary and important part of the learning process.’ (IBMYP Principles into Practice , p41, 2008)
The Film: PMI
Positive (what you liked)
Minus (what you did not like)
Improvement (ideas for change)
Reflective (thinking) routine
Let’s Assess!
Three pieces of information do we need to have before we can assess a student’s work…….
1. Aims (purpose)
2. Learning Outcomes
3. Objectives (criteria)
CRITERION C: SKILLS
Our Curriculum
The Learning Morning: PMI
Positive (what you liked)
Minus (what you did not like)
Improvement (ideas for change)
Reflective (thinking) routine
Parent Learning Morning October 15th 2009
Thank You!
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