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Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms

Intel® Teach Elements:

Assessment in 21st Century Classrooms

Action Plan: Lovite, Julie Pearl Marie E.

Instructions: Ctrl+click (or Command+click on the Mac* or click for Microsoft Word 2007*) any of the activity names in the Contents to go directly to that section. Type your personalized Action Plan details in the sections indicated.

Table of Contents

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 1: 21st Century Classrooms

Activity 1: Roles in the 21st Century

Activity 3: Evolution of Assessment Practices

Lesson 2: 21st Century Skills in the Classroom

Activity 3: 21st Century Skill Selection (Optional)

Lesson 3: 21st Century Assessment Practices

Activity 1: The Role of Formative Assessment

Lesson 4: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Module 2: Assessment Strategies

Lesson 3: Focus on Rubrics

Activity 3: Rubric Development

Lesson 4: The Assessing Projects Library

Activity 2: Assessing Projects Application

Lesson 5: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Module 3: Assessment Methods

Lesson 1: Assessment and Instruction

Activity 2: Instructional Activities as Assessment

Lesson 3: Classroom Conferences

Activity 3: Example Conferences

Lesson 5: Assessment Instruments

Activity 1: Overview of Assessment Instruments (Optional)

Lesson 6: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 1: Important Learning Goals

Activity 2: 21st Century Skills Objectives

Lesson 2: Assessment Plan

Activity 2: Effective Assessment Timelines

Activity 3: Assessment Methods and Purposes (Optional)

Lesson 3: Assessment Instruments

Activity 3: Rubric and Checklist Adaptation

Lesson 4: Module Review

Activity 1: Modules Summary

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 1: Student Roles in Assessment

Activity 1: Increased Student Responsibility (Optional)

Activity 2: Peer Feedback

Lesson 2: Self-Assessment

Activity 2: Supporting Metacognition (Optional)

Lesson 3: Assessment Management

Activity 1: Assessment Management Strategies

Activity 2: Assessment Routines (Optional)

Lesson 4: Use of Assessment Data

Activity 2: Reflection and Goal Setting

Lesson 5: Grading in a 21st Century Classroom

Activity 2: Grading Systems (Optional)

Lesson 6: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Course Wrap-Up

Summary

Activity 1: Course Reflection

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 1: 21st Century Classrooms

Activity 1: Roles in the 21st Century

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

In what ways do you consider yourself a 21st century teacher? Describe how you:

Collaborate with other teachers
Use technology in your classroom
Act as a facilitator of your students’ learning
Use multiple forms of assessment for content and 21st century skill development

Using the technology we can easily communicate with other teacher not just in the same are but also form a far
Assessing the students, plan and organize the lesson plan, and serve as a support
Assist the students’ knowledge and skills to provide response and understand the students capability
The teacher will serve as a guide/facilitator to the students.

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 1: 21st Century Classrooms

Activity 3: Evolution of Assessment Practices

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

In the chart, record your current assessment practices and how you would like to change your assessment practices.

Current Assessment Practices

Changes to Assessment Practices

- The teacher discuss the lessons based on what written in the book

- Students worked every chapter, doing problems the there is an activity/exam to test the students understanding in the lesson

- Subject-centered

- Rubric and scoring guides

- The teacher serve as guide or facilitator to the students

- Provide group work activities in order to socialize the students with each other

- Student centered

- Have students to create rubrics and scoring guide

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 2: 21st Century Skills in the Classroom

Activity 3: 21st Century Skill Selection (Optional)

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Consider the units you teach.
List units where you explicitly teach, or would like to teach, 21st century skills.
For those units, list the technologies you use or would like to use.

Unit

21st Century Skills

Technology

Food and Man

Collaboration

Online survey

Internet research

Clothing

Creativity

Internet research

Videos

Culinary

Creativity

Collaboration

Online Videos

Internet research

Electronics

Critical thinking

Problem solving

PPt. presentation

Projector

Business Math

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Microsoft Excel

Cosmetology

Creativity

Multimedia

Blogger

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 3: 21st Century Assessment Practices

Activity 1: The Role of Formative Assessment

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

How does formative assessment benefit your classroom? What kinds of changes would you need to make in your assessment practices to include more formative assessment?

Formative Assessment is very helpful in the students. It evaluate the students understanding and to see whether the students have meet the set of objective.

The change/s that I would use in assessment practices is authentic assessment. Because it does not encourage rote learning and passive test-taking instead, it focuses on students analytical skills; ability to integrate what they learn; creativity; ability to work collaboratively; and written and oral expression skills.

Module 1: 21st Century Learning

Lesson 4: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Based on your understanding of assessment, what assessment goals would you like to set for yourself during this course, month, or school year? Write your goals. Some examples include:

Choose 21st century skills to focus on during a particular unit or project
Use formative assessment strategies in my classroom
Add 21st century skills to my rubrics
Use additional assessment instruments to assess
Have students assess themselves and their peers
Distribute rubrics before and during the project
Use journals and/or observations to assess

My assessment goals:

Focus the students in authentic assessment that aims to evaluate the students’ abilities in real-world contexts.

Have the students involved more in assessing themselves with their classmate through rubric

Expose the students more in critical thinking

Enhance the students creativity and skills and involve the students in group activities

Module 2: Assessment Strategies

Lesson 3: Focus on Rubrics

Activity 3: Rubric Development

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Reflect on your current use of rubrics in your classroom.

How might you use rubrics in new or different ways to improve your students’ learning?

I will use rubrics to rate the student’s activities, projects and assignments and most importantly involve the students in creating the rubrics so that they can rate their own performance and the same with others.

Module 2: Assessment Strategies

Lesson 4: The Assessing Projects Library

Activity 2: Assessing Projects Application

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Explore the rubrics shown in the table or in the Assessing Projects library. Select and save at least one product or performance rubric and at least one 21st Century skill rubric to your Course Folder or to your Personal Library if using Assessing Projects. Describe how and when you would use each assessment.

Product or Performance Rubric name:

Video Rubric

How I will use the rubric:

Through well-researched, and accurate. I will use the information to make inferences and draw logical conclusions about the topic

21st Century Skill Rubric:

Creativity Rubric

How I will use the rubric:

By giving activities to the students that will use their own ideas, imagination or creativity and challenge the students to meet the goals that are given that others may think it’s hard

Module 2: Assessment Strategies

Lesson 5: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Reflect on your learning in this module.

Assessment can be thought of as ongoing informal feedback, in the moment of teaching. As you teach you should be constantly getting a feel for how students are making sense of what they are learning. Often the strategies you employ as you teach can also serve as assessment strategies.

Assessment in 21st century classroom consists of targeted purposes, a variety of methods, and appropriate instruments. The effective rubrics have carefully written levels of performance, traits and descriptors. It assess project’s application that has a variety of assessment on products, performances and 21st century skill.

Module 3: Assessment Methods

Lesson 1: Assessment and Instruction

Activity 2: Instructional Activities as Assessment

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Describe how you might integrate assessment methods as part of classroom activities.

Graphic Organizers

Students will create cause/effect/solution diagrams to resolve social issues within the classroom

Journals and Learning Logs

Students make entries in their logs/journals at the end of the lesson or sequence of work by reflecting on their learning by answering questions about their own learning

Discussions

Using questions (and follow-up questions) that require clear thinking

Products and Performances

Students will do a project like portfolios that will their creativity, idea and imagination. Let the students critique others works using rubrics

Module 3: Assessment Methods

Lesson 3: Classroom Conferences

Activity 3: Example Conferences

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Describe how you might include each assessment method in your classroom.

Observation

I want to use the observation in grouping the students for the activity to observe each group to see what are there plans

Peer Assessment

I want to use peer assessment for formative feedback or summative grading purposes to evaluate their own learning and in interpreting assessment criteria

Self-Assessment

I want to use self-assessment through rubrics or checklist to improve students understanding of course material as well as improve their metacognitive skills.

Student-Teacher Conferences

The teacher will look at student beforehand. A checklist or feedback form should accompany the work and give plenty of positive feedback and comments should be specific to the work and elaborated on during the conferences

Module 3: Assessment Methods

Lesson 5: Assessment Instruments

Activity 1: Overview of Assessment Instruments (Optional)

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Explore the assessment instruments (rubrics and checklists) shown in the table or in the Assessing Projects library. Select and save any that you would like to use or adapt for your classroom. Note how and when you might use the assessments.

Assessment Instrument	When and How I Will Use
Group Task Rubric	I’ll have students use this every time they have a group task for their activities or group project to assess how well they’re collaborating
Project Management Checklist	I will use the checklist every time I give them a project to help them self-assess their plans for the project and can use to build my own checklist that will be the standards for the project
Creativity Checklist	I’ll have the students use this checklist every time in giving activities or projects like portfolios to let the students enhance their skills and knowledge

Module 3: Assessment Methods

Lesson 6: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Reflect on how implementing what you have learned in this module might change your classroom.

Integrating assessment methods like classroom conference will find out how the students are learn and how they respond to the kind of assessment use like for example. A lecture can be an effective method/strategy that needs follow up assessment like journals and learning logs or group task where the teacher can observe what they are doing, how did they plan and what are their strategies to come up with good project/activities.

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 1: Important Learning Goals

Activity 2: 21st Century Skills Objectives

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

In this module, focus on a single project as you complete each Your Turn activity. Note that the planning steps build on each other.

Choose standards and write objectives for your unit. Remember to write objectives that tie to targeted standards, are measurable, and incorporate 21st century skills.

Unit/Project: Laboratory Gown/Apron

Targeted Standards

Objectives

The students will be able to construct a laboratory gown/apron

(Learning Objectives)

Make a project pan
Trace the pattern for laboratory gown/apron
Mark the allowances
Select and prepare materials
Lay-out and pin pattern pieces on cloth
Cut the material
Transfer construction marks
Assemble the laboratory gown

The students will understand the process of constructing laboratory gown/apron

Students will present their work and explain why they came up with that dress
Students will critique the other work of their classmate
Students give and receive feedback about their work

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 2: Assessment Plan

Activity 2: Effective Assessment Timelines

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Create an Assessment Timeline for your project. Remember to plan assessments throughout the project that meet all five purposes:

Gauging Student Needs
Encouraging Collaboration and Self-Direction
Monitoring Progress
Checking Understanding and Encouraging Metacognition
Demonstrating Understanding

Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins	During project work	After project work is completed

Enter text here	Enter text here	Enter text here

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 2: Assessment Plan

Activity 3: Assessment Methods and Purposes (Optional)

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

To complete your Assessment Plan for your unit, develop a table of assessment strategies that aligns to the Assessment Timeline you created in Activity 2.

As you think through the purpose and process for each assessment, you may need to modify your Assessment Timeline to best meet each of your goals and objectives.

You may want to review the Guiding Questions document in the Module 4 section of the Resources tab to help you write your Assessment Plan.

Table of Assessment Strategies

Assessment	Process and Purpose of Assessment

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 3: Assessment Instruments

Activity 3: Rubric and Checklist Adaptation

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Adapt a rubric or checklist that you selected in Module 2, Lesson 4, Activity 2 or Module 3, Lesson 5, Activity 1. Use Assessing Projects to adapt an assessment in your personal library, or modify an assessment in your Course Folder using a word processor.

Describe how you adapted the assessment and how you will use it in your classroom.

I used the video rubric through well-researched, and accurate. I will use the information to make inferences and draw logical conclusions about the topic. In 21st skill I use the creativity rubric in assessment by giving activities to the students that will use their own ideas, imagination or creativity and challenge the students to meet the goals that are given that others may think it’s hard

Module 4: Assessment Development

Lesson 4: Module Review

Activity 1: Modules Summary

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Reflect on your learning from Module 4 and record your reflections.

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 1: Student Roles in Assessment

Activity 1: Increased Student Responsibility (Optional)

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Considering your students and their experiences with peer assessment, what concerns do you have about transitioning them to be successful assessors? List your concerns and brainstorm solutions.

Concerns	Solutions
Taking the students seriously	Include assessment process that will enjoy the students and at the same time they will learn
Students will just rush through the peer assessments and not do a good job.	Explain the students the importance of peer assessment and how will it helps them in assessing
Providing helpful feedback during peer review	Provide a rubric, checklist or a guidelines in giving feedback

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 1: Student Roles in Assessment

Activity 2: Peer Feedback

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Review the Tips for Student Feedback document.
Create a resource to support or scaffold peer assessment, such as a checklist, presentation, tips sheet, dialog for modeling, and so on. You may modify any of the resources you viewed in this activity for use in your own classroom. Consider using collaboration and self-direction resources from the Assessing Projects library as well.
Describe how you will use the support material.

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 2: Self-Assessment

Activity 2: Supporting Metacognition (Optional)

Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Review the Metacognition document.
Consider the resources you could use to support self-assessment and metacognition in your classroom. Identify an assessment instrument you have already created, modify any of the samples you have viewed, or use the Assessing Projects application to create one.
Describe how you will use the support material.

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 3: Assessment Management

Activity 1: Assessment Management Strategies

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Describe how you will organize and track student assessment data.

Describe how you will help your students organize their assessment data.

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 3: Assessment Management

Activity 2: Assessment Routines (Optional)

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

What assessment activities do you want to routinely occur in your classroom? What technology do you think could help support those activities?

Routine Assessment Activities	Technology

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 4: Use of Assessment Data

Activity 2: Reflection and Goal Setting

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Review your ideas for tracking and organizing student assessment data from Module 5, Lesson 3, Activity 1. How will you and your students use the information from the assessment data?

Consider how students can use the assessment information to:

Reflect on their learning
Modify their goals or actions
Revise their work
Build on their 21st century skills, and so on

Describe what you will have your students do with the assessment data they collect and organize.

Determine how you will use the assessment data to:

Modify instruction
Determine proficiency
Plan future units, and so on

Plan how you will use student assessment data that you organize and track.

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 5: Grading in a 21st Century Classroom

Activity 2: Grading Systems (Optional)

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

What strategies will you use to assign grades to student work and processes?

Module 5: Assessment in Action

Lesson 6: Module Review

Activity 1: Module Summary

Estimated Time: 10 minutes

Reflect on the learning from this module.

Course Wrap-Up

Summary

Activity 1: Course Reflection

Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Revisit the goals you set for assessment in your classroom from Module 1, Lesson 4, Activity 1. Write about your progress toward those goals.

What new goals do you have for assessment in your 21st Century classroom? What goals do you have for your students?

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