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New York City Charter School Center

New School Development Program

Utilizing Benchmark & Guiding Assessments

December 20, 2010

Cynthia S. Millinger, M.Ed.Charter School Startup

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ELA

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Science

181

Math

119

Social Studies

215

Your School’s

Mission 2

High-Stakes

Assessment 2

Adequate Yearly

Progress 2

Your School’s Educational

Philosophy 2

Average NY Curriculum for a 4th Grader

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754Performance

Indicators

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ELA

Science

Math

Social Studies

Your School’s

Mission

High-Stakes

Assessment

Adequate Yearly

Progress

Your School’s

Educational Philosophy

Your Essential

Charter School Curriculum


YOUR

Essential

Charter

School

Curriculum

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Selecting

Essential Standards

Mission:

WHO

WHAT

HOW

Philosophy:

WHY


New York

State Testing

Program

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Take the TestPlease take the 2007 grade 8 math and reading NAEP and evaluate the level of rigor using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Test Reflections1. What did you notice about the level of rigor?

2. What did you notice about the content?

3. How will you prepare students to show proficiency on this assessment?

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The Essential

Curriculum Cycle

Standards

What students

should know

and be able

to do

Resources

The materials

that guide

teachers in

helping

students

master the

standards

Instruction

The methods

teachers use

to enable

students to

master the

standards

Assessments

The tools that

directly measure

student mastery

of the standards

ReflectionThe professional development opportunities provided

to staff to enable them to evaluate student work and

adjust the pacing, scope, and sequence as necessary

to ensure students master the standards


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Essential Curriculum

Unit Map

School: ______________ Grade: __ Subject ______ Unit: ____ Time Frame: _________________


Guiding Assessment

Title:

Objective:

Essential Standards How do you assess?

Tasks & Evidence

What resources

do you use?

How do you teach?

Activities & Practice

When and how do you reflect?

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Essential Unit Plans

• Are built so that students master a set of specificessential standards

• Are anchored in meaningful, memorable, comprehensive assessments

• Use benchmark assessments to constantly gauge student performance

• Use multiple instructional strategies so that students are engaged and able to excel

• Use resources as resources—not as curriculum

• Use student work to inform instruction


Essential Unit Planning

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The Essential

Curriculum Cycle

Standards

What students

should know

and be able

to do

Resources

The materials

that guide

teachers in

helping

students

master the

standards

Instruction

The methods

teachers use

to enable

students to

master the

standards

Assessments

The tools that

directly measure

student mastery

of the standards






Using “Data” to

Plan Strategic Instruction

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Goal: Make informed decisions

about the way we teach.

Strategy: Use formative assessments

to get the information (data) we need.

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Start with the end in mind

• What will your students learn to do that they currently cannot?

• How will you know they can do it?

• What does proficiency look like?

• What does advanced proficiency look like?

Create an Essential Unit


Look at a variety of

culminating/guiding assessments

• What skills do students need to master in order to

be successful?

• Will the students likely enjoy this assessment?

• Will the students likely remember this assessment

in later years?

• Is the assessment measuring high or low level

Bloom’s?

Create the Culminating/Guiding Assessment

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Associated Verbs

EVALUATION

Appraise, Argue, Assess, Choose, Judge, Predict, Rate, Select, Support, Value, Evaluate,

Decide, Verify, Recommend, Prioritize, Check, Critique, Defend

SYNTHESIS

Create, Invent, Compose, Predict, Plan, Construct, Design, Imagine, Propose, Devise,

Formulate, Arrange, Assemble, Collect, Develop, Manage, Organize, Write, Generate, Plan,

Produce

ANALYSIS

Analyze, Appraise, Calculate, Categorize, Compare, Contrast, Criticize, Distinguish, Examine,

Experiment, Question, Test, Investigate, Separate, Differentiate, Organize, Attribute

APPLICATION

Apply, Choose, Demonstrate, Dramatize, Illustrate, Interpret, Operate, Practice, Schedule,

Sketch, Solve, Use, Write, Show, Construct, Complete, Examine, Classify, Execute, Implement

COMPREHENSION

Explain, Outline, Discuss, Distinguish, Predict, Restate, Translate, Describe, Convert,

Estimate, Generalize, Express, Locate, Report, Select, Review, Interpret, Exemplify, Classify,

Summarize, Infer, Compare

KNOWLEDGE

Tell, List, Describe, Relate, Locate, Write, Find, State, Name, Arrange, Define, Duplicate,

Label, Memorize, Order, State, Relate, Repeat, Reproduce, Recognize, Recall

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Standards-Based

Assessments


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Differentiation


Gifted and

Talented

All students

No students are

allowed to fail


Because we are not a school that has gone through the essential-standards selection process, we must approximate it….

Right now each of you will select from ONE grade level:

• 1 essential mission/philosophy performance indicator

• 3 essential CONTENT performance indicators

• 1 essential PROCESS performance indicator

Even though we are not going through the item mapping process, keep in mind the concepts of endurance, leverage, and necessity for the next level of instruction….

Essential-Standards

Selection Process

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Unit Assessment

• Choose essential (and other) standards to teach

• Write an objective—what will your students be able

to do by the end of the unit?

• Create or find a powerful assessment that will show

mastery of the standards

• Create or find a Scoring Guide with three levels of mastery

Create Your Own Culminating Assessment

Using the Circle Tracker


No Mastery Partial Mastery Mastery

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Using the Circle Tracker


Adding

fractions with

like

denominators

Subtracting

fractions with

like

denominators

Finding

common

denominators

Adding

fractions with

unlike

denominators

Subtracting

fractions with

unlike

denominators

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Patrick

Mike

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Unit Map



Guiding Assessment

Title:

Objective:


Tasks & Evidence

What resources

do you use?

How do you teach?



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Preparing for High-Stakes Assessments

• Create a second assessment that is built using the NY state

assessment, the NAEP data explorer, your textbook, your imagination

• You can either take the questions exactly as they are worded or reword to match your content

• The assessment should contain 10-20 standardized questions

• Not all questions should be multiple choice. In fact a large number should be constructed response

• Include questions EVERYONE should get to be proficient and

bonus questions for your advanced proficient students.

• Make sure the questions are rigorous!!!



Using NAEP Data-Explorer


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Create A High-Stakes Assessment

• Create a second assessment that is built using the NY state

assessment, the NAEP data explorer, your textbook, your imagination

• You can either take the questions exactly as they are worded or reword to match your content

• The assessment should contain 10-20 standardized questions

• Not all questions should be multiple choice. In fact a large number should be constructed response

• Include questions EVERYONE should get to be proficient and

bonus questions for your advanced proficient students.

• Make sure the questions are rigorous!!!


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Unit Map



Guiding Assessment

Title:

Objective:


Tasks & Evidence

What resources

do you use?

How do you teach?


Choose 5-10 Essential

Standards per unit

Choose 1-2 Mission-

related Essential Standard

(Note—not every essential

standard needs to be

assessed multiple times,

especially if you are just

introducing it)

Each unit must have at

least one:

Performance based

assessment

High-Stakes assessment

You can also have more—

Four is a good number for

a 6-8 week unit


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The Essential

Curriculum Cycle

Standards

What students

should know

and be able

to do

Resources

The materials

that guide

teachers in

helping

students

master the

standards

Instruction

The methods

teachers use

to enable

students to

master the

standards

Assessments

The tools that

directly measure

student mastery

of the standards






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ELA

Science

Math

Social Studies

Your School’s

Mission

High-Stakes

Assessment

Adequate Yearly

Progress

Your School’s

Educational Philosophy

Your Essential

Charter School Curriculum


YOUR

Essential

Charter

School

Curriculum


Questions?

Thank You!

Charter School StartupHelping Founders Find Their Way

Cynthia S. Millinger, M.Ed.609.647.3833

[email protected]

www.charterschoolstartup.com

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