Assessing Academic Conversations Session 2 Presented by: Cynthia Godoy, NBCT & Kit McConnell, NBCT Monday April 27 3:30 – 5 pm

Goals of the Grant: To build a statewide network of accomplished classroom teachers and other education leaders who will: provide expertise for the instructional shifts needed to implement the CCSS in ELA and Mathematics, and the NGSS; support the design and implementation of school-based professional learning around instructional practice; create and lead regional professional development; become a resource for continued instructional support statewide by communicating and coordinating with CTA/local associations, school districts, county offices of education, and the California Department of Education.

Reflect on experiences facilitating academic conversations Share instructional plans that incorporate academic conversations Discuss strategies for implementing student assessed academic conversations Identify benefits and challenges of using academic conversations Collaborate around structures to support various conversations Engaged participants will…

Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity THE 4 C’S OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

In Practice Adaptations/Know your students Student Feedback Participant’s Reflection share artifacts

In Practice Video Analysis SuccessesChallenges Take note of what went well and what needs improvement

Adapting academic conversations Form a group of 4 – 5 5 points

Experiencing academic conversations Choose a role: Facilitator: Assures full participation Assessor: Monitors and evaluates conversation Time Keeper: Keeps group on task Reporter: Communicates group findings publicly (Groups of 5 will have duplicate roles)

The Text 1.View/read the text 2.Think critically about what information is presented 3.Discuss your ideas with your group 4.Formulate one question on the poster as a group You will spend 8 minutes at each poster talking. After all rotations, each poster will contain 5 questions.

Play your role Assessor: -Observe text based conversations, and assess the academic conversation using the “TALKS” handout. -Pay particular attention to participants using K (knowledge from the text)

Play your role Facilitator: Lead your group’s conversation. Consider the strategies you can utilize to promote participation of all group members. Foster conversation about the text.

Play your role Reporter: Summarize your group’s conversation, and be prepared to share out. You will report following your conversation about the fifth poster.

Play your role Timekeeper: Decide on the best ways to alert your group to the time limitations. Communicate the tools that you’ll use before your group begins. For 8 minutes your group will have an academic conversation. The assessor will observe participation.

Instructional Shifts

Report Out Assessor’s perspective Measuring success

Keep Collecting and sharing… Artifacts related to the academic conversation: TALKS form Questions on index card Recorder/reporter notes Video Short piece of student writing that was a result to the conversation Other ideas…

Resources… SBAC sample activities SBAC prompts SBAC performance task Benchmark assessments Anytime students have to write Visual texts AVID Weekly

Evaluation Access evaluation at: Click on the following: Departments  English Language Arts  Assessing Conversations  Session 2