Showing posts with label professional development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label professional development. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2015

Effective Strategies for Next Generation Assessments

Agenda

 

Getting Started

  • Table Group Introductions
  • Four Things About My Journey

Today's Objective 

 Each participant will experience Smarter Balance Testing environment to better understand what students will need in order to be successful, then create lessons/resources to be used with their classroom as soon as tomorrow.  

Perseverance

"The average child asks 100 questions a day.  By the time the is 11 or 12 he or she has figured out that it's much more important to get right answers than to keep asking thoughtful questions" - Tony Wagner from the book Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

DOK

  • DOK Padlet 
  • DOK Quick Check   
  • What level of DOK is this question?

Smarter Balance Assessment Environment


After Lunch Exploration ... more coming later

Task:

Part 1:
 Explore resources below or others that are shared in your table groups
and find 3 or 4 resources/lessons/performance tasks/assessments that
you can implement with students.


Part 2:  Fill in your plan while looking through the resources.

Resource Links:




Additional Resources:






Final Reflections and Take Aways

PDU and Evaluation















Friday, April 25, 2014

Virtually Attending a Tech Conference Using Twitter

Twitter is a great resource to obtain information shared by millions of others from all over the world.  Conferences are great events to visit as you network with peers in your profession.  However, they can be costly for many of us.  I say check out conferences via Twitter.

Most conferences have a Twitter hashtag.  The conversations shared and resources provided are endless.  You can take part in these conversations whether you are at the conference or not; or simply kick back and peruse through the posts as they scroll by.

What if you aren't a Twitter user?  No problem, you can still read through all the posts by accessing Twitter search at https://twitter.com/search-home and searching for the hashtag of interest.

A great instructional strategies conference I’ve attended for several years is IntegratED in Portland, OR, usually held in late February.  The hashtag they use is #ipdx14.

If you were to search through #ipdx14 feeds you would find the following:


  • A post referencing the IntegratED environment
    I love that everyone has same name badge (no difference for presenters) Sends message we are ALL here to learn and share
    #iPDX14







Find a conference and follow the hashtag in Twitter, or go back and review the feed afterwards.  There are great opportuntities to learn new ideas towards improving your craft. At a fraction of the cost to physically attend.

 
Other hashtags of conferences