1. CCSS Training
9/24/14

2. CCSS is not Smarter Balanced
more important are the classroom assessments you are doing

3. Keys to Quality Assessment
Clear Purpose Clear Targets
Sound Design
Effective Communication
Student Involvement

4. Key 1 - Clear Purpose Who is going to use the information?
How will they use it?
What information, in what detail, do they need?

5. Clear Learning Target
Writing it on the board, telling students the target is not enough.
Learning target should be
discussed as a class,
students should understand the “why.”
broken down
restated in student friendly language

6. Why Clear Targets? Teachers Students
aligned, accurate assessments and lessons created
instruction matches intended learning
descriptive feedback for learning
evaluative feedback truly reflects mastery of learning
Students
clarity of learning for learning
targets are motivating and allow for all to be successful
reflect on and assess their own learning and growth
are critical to shared communication between teachers and students
determine what questions to ask

7. 5 Types of Learning Targets
Knowledge Targets
Reasoning Targets
Skill Targets
Product Targets
Disposition Targets

8. Knowledge Targets Reasoning Targets
factual information, procedural knowledge, conceptual understandings (identify nouns and verbs, use correct spelling)
Reasoning Targets
thought processes (inferences, compare & contrast, analysis, evaluation, synthesis)

9. Skill Targets Product Targets
Demonstration or physical skill-based performance (speaking & listening, technology to produce/publish, discussion, writing over an extended period of time)
Product Targets
creation of product is the focus of learning (writing standards)

10. Be clear what you are assessing
Teachers often combine reasoning and product targets.
What is your big focus for the day? Reasoning or product?

11. Deconstructing standards
If a standard is Reasoning,
it has Knowledge and Reasoning targets
If a standard is Skill,
it has Knowledge, Reasoning, & Skill targets
If a standard is Product,
it has Knowledge, Reasoning, Skill & product Targets
(not always skill)

12. Look at what Kentucky has done
Kentucky has already deconstructed all Common Core Standards.
Look at them, use them for a model...or change them.

13. Steps to deconstructing
choose a standard
type of target?
nouns, verbs in the target
based on type of standard, write learning targets for all needed areas (knowledge, reasoning, etc.)
write learning targets in student friendly terms

14. Why rewrite targets in student friendly language?
students can go deeper into the standard if they understand all parts of it
Parents can understand the target
Students have more motivation if they understand the standard
Have students help you rewrite the standard

15. Key 3 - Sound Design
design assessments to serve intended formative and summative purposes
select assessment methods to match learning targets

16. Methods of Assessment Selected Response Written Response
Performance Assessment
Personal Communication
Knowledge
Good
Strong
Partial
Reasoning
Skill
Poor
Product