Coaching for Rigorous Assessment

Jenny Lehotsky &

Leah O’Donnell

http://tinyurl.com/ICIC2016assessment

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Leah O’Donnell

@leahod on Twitter

http://responsiveliteracy.blogspot.com

Literacy Coach

Literacy Coordinator for Berwyn South 100

NBCT

Jenny Lehotsky

@JennyLehotsky on Twitter

Teachingandlearningredefined.blogspot.com

Instructional Coach

Berwyn South School District 100

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Join us to continue the conversation!

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Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month!

http://tinyurl.com/ICIC2016assessment

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Our goals for today:

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• We will give 7 strategies that we have found successful for evaluating rigor of assessment with teachers and administrators
• We will focus on using assessment to drive instruction and show student growth.

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What is the purpose of our assessments?

To measure

success

in a classroom

To show teachers how to set goals, use formative assessments and data, and make new goals for instruction

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Use PERA to open the door to assessment conversations.

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Use it as a reason to start coaching conversations!

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Important Factors in Creating Assessments...

Understanding of Standards

Knowledge of Curriculum

Assessment Writing Skill

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Create a Culture

that values

Assessment to Drive Instruction

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Coaching for Rigorous

Instruction & Assessments

#1 Breaking down the standard to set goals

# 2 Single Point Rubric

#3 Student Learning Objectives

#4 Questioning

#5 Analyzing Student Work

#6 Team Coaching- We are better together!

#7 Evaluating Rigorous Assessment

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• Individual
• Team
• Building

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#1

• Break down the standards to set goals

Coaching Strategy

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Coach for Standards Understanding

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ISBE C3

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Breaking Down the Standards to Set Goals

• Pick the standards that will be the focus of instruction.
• Determine what the standards really mean by “unpacking” them.
• Use the standards to set learning goals for your students.

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Unpacking

Template

Organizer

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#2

• Single Point Rubric Work

Coaching Strategy

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Cult of Pedagogy Blog Posts

Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics

Your Rubric is a Hot Mess; Here’s How to Fix It

Show Us Your #SinglePointRubric

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A SPR Helps Name Performance Criteria

If you can name performance criteria BEFORE teaching, you have better instructional design, formative and summative assessments, and higher rates of students hitting the “target.”

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#3

• Create Student Learning Objectives

Coaching Strategy

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Create Student Learning Objectives

Guidebook on Student Learning Objectives for Type III Assessments

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#4

• Enhance Questioning

Coaching Strategy

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Writing Text Dependent Questions Tips

Guide to Text Dependent Questions

QAR

Answer your own Test Questions

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#5

• Analyze Student Work

Coaching Strategy

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RI3.2

Use student work as a pre-assessment to drive instruction

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Analyzing Student Work

Work Sample Sorting for Standards Based Grading

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RL.k.3

RL.5.3

Vertical Alignment

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Formative

Assessments

Reteaching

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Adding Lessons

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Giving Feedback

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#6

• Team Coaching

Coaching Strategy

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Team Coaching (Teachers)

• Unpacking the Standards
• Unit Planning
• Single Point Rubrics
• Writing SLOs
• Write Assessments
• Student Work Samples

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Team Coaching (Admins)

• Determining expectations for grade level work
• Looking at vertical sequence for rigor
• Sorting Assessment Samples
• Using instructional tools to determine success criteria

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Here’s a possible planning sheet that would help with coaching staff when creating an assessment with rigor in mind.

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#7

• Evaluate for Rigorous Assessment

Coaching Strategy

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Is this a rigorous assessment?

• Measures thinking over recall
• Aligned to accurate interpretation of standard
• Extends and reinforces learning
• Applies or synthesizes learning
• Appropriate level of scaffolding - “You do”
• Allows students to show growth

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Rigorous Assessment by Jennifer Valenti How to Plan Rigorous Instruction by Robyn R. Jackson

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Science Example

Assessment: Create an artifact that will be placed in the a museum to demonstrate the 4.6 billion year old history of Earth. Our artifact should include a scientific explanation with evidence explaining the major events in Earth’s History.

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Student Example

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Rigorous 6th Grade CCSS Assessment

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RL.6.1 - Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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RL.6.6 - Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.

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Rigorous 6th Grade CCSS Assessment

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Rigorous 6th Grade CCSS Assessment

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Resources

• Guidebook on Student Learning Objectives for Type III Assessments by ISBE
• Teaching for Rigor by Robert Marzona
• Rigorous Assessment by Jennifer Valenti
• How to Plan Rigorous Instruction by Robyn R. Jackson
• Achieve the Core Text Direct Questions
• 6th Grade Sample Test - Achieve the Core

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