Bill edited Building on the Collaborative Foundation - FUSD

Session 4: Using Unit Overview Sheets to Encourage Student Involved Assessment
While developing unit overview sheets can provide much-needed guidance and structure to the work of professional learning teams, developing unit overview sheets can also hvae a direct impact on the quality of instruction happening inside of classrooms. In this portion of the workshop, participants will (1). explore the research around student involved assessment and (2). think through the role that unit overview sheets can play in making student involved assessment a more regular part of the learning happening inside their buildings.
Learning About Grading from the Baljeetles
Learning about Feedback from Bushkrafft
Additional Tools for Facilitating Student Involved Assessment
Student Data Tracking Tools
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Oftentimes, we forget that formative assessment isn't JUST about getting information that teachers can act on. Formative assessment information can be just as valuable to students, who can develop a more sophisticated sense of what they have mastered and what they are still struggling to master. To make this work more doable, North Carolina first grade teacher Andrea Knight developed a series of graphing templates for her students to complete as a part of their data notebooks. Samples of three of those templates are linked above. You can read more about Ms. Knight's processhere on her blog. You can purchase her templateshere on her Teachers Pay Teachers page.
Using Exemplars to Grade Subjective Tasks
Metaphorical Thinking Rubric
Metaphorical Thinking Exemplars
Metaphorical Rating Activity
To help students master the skills of assessing their own progress towards mastering subjective tasks, it is often necessary to provide them with exemplars representing different levels of performance. Doing so helps students to recognize their own level of performance on tasks that they may not be familiar with. These materials represent session presenter Bill Ferriter's efforts to make sets of expectations for a subjective task explicit for his students. Would developing similar materials be a productive task for learning teams to tackle?
Session 5: Five Tips for Integrating Unit Overview Sheets into the Work of Your School
No single practice is more important for improving the early work of PLCs than the development of unit overview sheets. That means it is ESSENTIAL that coaches, principals and teacher liasions understand their role in supporting teams as they develop unit overview sheets. In this portion of the workshop, participants will be introduced to a series of five tips that can guide their work while pushing the notion of unit overview sheets forward in their buildings.
Session 6: Working on Sample Templates to Share with Your Teams
The greatest takeway from this two-day workshop will be samples of unit overview sheets that can be used to guide the early work of learning teams. In this portion of the workshop, participants will (1). review the sample unit overview sheets shared by session presenter Bill Ferriter, (2). decide on -- or create -- a template to pitch to teachers back in their buildings and (3). develop a few samples to use in the work that they are doing back in their buildings.

from Digitally Speaking
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