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Looking at Student Work:Lens, Layers and Learning
Michelle Swanson
Swanson & Cosgrave Consulting
July, 2010 NAF Summer Institute
Agenda
Questions for our session?• What is LASW strategy and what is the
rationale for using it?• What practices and protocols can we
use with our colleagues?• What implications are there for using
student work to guide some instructional decisions?
Agenda (format)
• Quick review and stories from Project Zero’s Steve Seidel
• Introduction of the Collaborative Assessment Conference protocol applied to the work of a DECA research project
• Practice of the protocol applied to DECA marketing video project
• Conversation about implications, opportunities, connections, Q&A
Conceptual Framework
• Process began by Steve Seidel at Project Zero as the teacher equivalent to medical rounds.
• Steve, Tina Blythe and the other Zeros created the Collaborative Assessment Conference as a construct for the work.
• Rounds happen the first Saturday of each month. 30-80 teachers show up, one or two share work, everyone leaves energized.
Why was the Collaborative Assessment Protocol process
developed?
How does the protocol work?
• Select a piece of work • Group describes work in detail • Group speculates on what students are
working on, thinking about• Group asks questions• Presenting teacher responds• Implications for teaching and learning
discussed
Our Presenting Teacher
• Deb Moore
• Raymond S. Kellis HS
• Glendale, Arizona
• Project One: Act Out Loud Video
• Project Two: Sports and Entertainment Marketing Research
Examining the Work
• We’ll play the video two times.• Take notes on anything that strikes you--
what do you notice, what do you see, what do you wonder?
• Be prepared to share your observations, questions, speculations
• Five minutes to discuss with neighbor and be ready to engage in protocol
Examining Project 2
• Take 10 minutes to read a selection from a Kellis HS school project
• Mark up the text with observations, wonderings, same as last time.
• Turn to partner and share findings
• Be prepared to share your thinking.
DECA Research Project
So What? Who Cares?
Based on our work today…• What is valuable about this strategy and
protocol?• How might you use this strategy in your
own work?• How might you use this in your school
or academy?
ResourcesFor more information:
National School Reform Faculty sitehttp://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/
learning_from_student_work.html
Project Zero at Harvard University http://www.pz.harvard.edu/Research/Rounds.htm
What Kids Can Do: Fires in the Mindwww.wkcd.org