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!