Assessments
An assessment FOR learning used to advance and not merely monitor each student's learning. Checking for understanding is one example.
What is formative assessment?
Goals that are strategic, measurable, attainable, results-oriented, and timebound.
What are smart goals?
A group of people working together interdependently to achieve a common goal for which members are held mutually accountable.
What is a team?
Someone with expertise in a specialized field. Someone who not only pursued advanced training to enter the field, but who is also expected to remain current in its evolving knowledge base.
What is a professional?
CVSEC prepares all students to successfully learn and engage in our community.
What is the mission of CVSEC?
An assessment OF learning designed to provide a final measurement that determines if learning goals have been met.
What is summative assessment?
The knowledge, skills, and dispositions that have endurance and leverage, and are essential in preparing students for readiness at the next level. They are the big ideas we want out students to learn.
What are power standards?
A systematic process in which people work together, interdependently, to analyze and impact professional practice in order to improve individual and collective results.
What is collaboration?
Richard DuFour and Rober Eaker
Who are the author's of Professional Learning Communities at Work?
An assessment that requires students to demonstrate learning through something that you can watch them do.
What is performance-based assessment?
Goals that can be met. They are perceived as attainable by those who set them.
What are attainable goals?
In PLC's, these are the commitments, or rules, developed by each team to guide members in working together.
What are team norms?
CVSEC is a model learning community with unique supports for every student through collaboration with member districts.
What is CVSEC's vision statement?
An assessment of student learning that uses the same instrument (or test) utilizing the same criteria for determining the quality of student work.
What is common assessment?
The critical skills, knowledge, and dispositions each student must acquire as a result of each course, grade level, and unit of instruction. Sometimes referred to as essential outcomes or power standards.
What is the essential learning?
In a PLC, collaboration focuses on these "quad very important inquires" of learning.
What are the "four critical questions" of collaborative teams?
What is school culture?
An assessment typically created collaboratively by a team of teachers responsible for the same grade level or course. They are used frequently to determine how well students are progressing, how well teaching strategies are working, curriculum concerns, and for improvement goals.
What is a common formative assessment?
Measurable milestones that can be used to assess progress in advancing toward a vision. They help to answer the question, "What results do we seek, and how will we know we are making progress?"
What are goals?
The process of building shared knowledge by clarifying the questions that a group will explore together.
What is collective inquiry?
What do we want our students to learn? How do we know when they have learned it? How do we respond if students don't learn? How will we respond when some students achieve the outcomes?
What are the critical questions of a PLC?