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2. Our Moderator: Anthony Rebora Managing editor of Education Week Teacher and the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook. www.edweek.org/tm www.teachersourcebook.org

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5. Jennifer Barnett is the technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, Ala., where she supports schools' transition to 21st-century skills frameworks and project-based learning frameworks. Winner of the 2008 Chiquita Marbury Technology Innovation Teacher Award in 2008, Ms. Barnett is a contributor to the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools—Now and in the Future. jenniferlbarnett03@gmail.com or jbarnett@tcboe.org @JenniferBarnett (Twitter) Websites: http://jenniferbarnett.wikispaces.com http://jenniferbarnett.edublogs.org Featured Guests

6. Sheryl Nussbaum Beach is a widely known speaker and trainer on the use of interactive technology in K-12 education. She is the founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network, organizations that aim to help schools and districts re-envision their learning cultures. http://21stcenturycollaborative.comhttp://plpnetwork.comhttp://twitter.com/snbeach Featured Guests

7. Education Week PD WebinarNew Directions in Classroom AssessmentWednesday, march 23, 2011 Jennifer L. Barnett Winterboro School Talladega County, Alabama

8. 21st Century assessments Must • Be Performance Based • Have an Authentic, Real-World Connection • Provide Immediate Feedback

9. What is Project Based Learning? In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. Rigorous projects help students learn key academic content and practice 21st Century Skills such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking. (Buck Institute for Education)

10. Bridge Project (Geometry & Physical Science) Driving Question/Challenge:How do we design & build the strongest bridge possible? Need to Know:How are bridges designed? Launch event at Kymulga Bridge with Bridge Inspectors, Civil Engineers, and retired math teachers. Inquiry & Innovation: Apply content to real world situation (slope, proportion, force, friction, parallelism, etc.) by developing hypotheses for the best possible bridge design 21st Century Skills: Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Digital Skills (West Point Bridge Design) Student Voice & Choice: Choose a scenario and design the best bridge for the area (i.e. multi-lane, footbridge, railroad bridge, highway/shipping port) Feedback & Revision: Practice presentations, panel reviews, teacher reviews Publicly Presented Product: Students presented bridge designs to inspectors and engineers. Bridges were tested for weight and stability.

11. Why Teachers Consider PBL Challenging • Demands a “different” way of thinking • Requires tremendous amount of upfront planningThe Projects The Formative Assessments The Summative Assessment • Demands a different set of skills of students which dictate a new learning ecology in the classroom • Requires Superior Management and Organization to be Successful

12. How Can a Classroom Teacher Create Opportunities for Assessing 21st Century Skills? Explain Yourself! Have students constantly explain their learning to others. • Visitors and guests • Administrators, other available school personnel • Other teachers • Other students

13. How Can a Classroom Teacher Create Opportunities for Assessing 21st Century Skills? Perform and Present! Use rubrics to formally assess specific skills. • Outside audience • Each other • Feeder school • Competitions

14. How Can a Classroom Teacher Create Opportunities for Assessing 21st Century Skills? Self-Analysis and Reflection • Study the rubrics for gaps and wholes • Goal Setting –individual, group • Electronic Portfolios

15. Six Questions All Students Must Be Able to Answer When seeking rigor, relevance, and relationships, all students should be able to answer the following questions: 1. What is the purpose of this lesson? 2. Why is this important to learn? 3. In what ways are you challenged to think in this lesson? 4. How will you apply, assess, or communicate what you’ve learned? 5. Do you know how good your work is and how you can improve it? 6. Do you feel respected by other students in this class?

16. Shift in School CultureThe Trust Card as a Daily 21st Century Assessment • Winterboro Trust Statement • As a scholar of Winterboro High School, I am responsible for my educational experience. I understand the level of professionalism and dedication that will be required to succeed not only at WHS, but also in the postsecondary and professional environments. With these expectations comes TRUST. • Sample Trust Privileges: • Business Casual on Fridays • Priority Seating at Lunch • Extra Break Time in Afternoons • “Trust” Restroom Privileges • Pep Rallies, Assemblies, etc.

18. So What About Standardized Tests? • All Projects are standards–based • Monthly standards based assessments are given in all content areas • Additional quarterly math benchmarks are administered • “Regular” tests are administered at the end of each project Results 2008-2009 to 2009-2010 • Reading: Largest Gain – 10 points (5th) Smallest Gain – 3 points (7th) • Math: Largest Gain – 11 points (7th) Smallest Gain – 3 points (5th and 6th) • Graduation Rate: Increased 20 points in two years

19. Resources – PBL & 21st Century Skills • My Wiki • Project Based Learning Page • My Web Wardrobe Page • Talladega County PBL Resource • Virginia’s Teach 21 Project Plans • Buck Institute for Education

20. Contact Information Jennifer L. Barnett jenniferlbarnett03@gmail.com or jbarnett@tcboe.org @JenniferBarnett (Twitter) Websites: http://jenniferbarnett.wikispaces.com http://jenniferbarnett.edublogs.org Winterboro School 22601 Alabama Highway 21 Alpine, Alabama 35014 256-315-5390

21. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach 21stcenturycollaborative.com

22. Education Week PD Webinar • Paperless handouts • http://delicious.com/tag/edwksnbSheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.comPresident21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollabrative.com • About me: http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/about-me NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD Webinar

23. Assessment needs to change. We know this. NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD Webinar

25. Shift from emphasis on teaching… TO AN EMPHASIS ON CO-LEARNING NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT

26. Shift To Shift From Photo Credit :http://www.annedavies.com/assessment_for_learning_tr_tjb.html NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD Webinar

27. Summative vs. Formative assessment Summative assessment is commonly used to certify the amount that individuals have learned and to provide an accountability measure. Summative assessments hold teachers accountable for standardized performance. They measure how well the teacher taught the curriculum. Formative assessment, in which the assessment is integrated with the instruction (and sometimes serves as the instruction) with the purpose of deepening learning, can replace summative assessment in many cases. Formative assessment measures and supports learning, not teaching. NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENTEducation Week PD

28. Formative Assessment Can be used to: • Gauge students prior knowledge and readiness • Encourage self-directed learning • Monitor progress • Check for understanding • Encourage metacognition • Create a culture of collaboration • Increase learning • Provide diagnostic feedback about how to improve teaching NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD Webinar

29. Technological change is not additive, its ecological. A new technology does not change something, it changes everything" [Neil Postman] Source: Mark Treadwell - http://www.i-learnt.com

30. Shifts focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement. Students become producers, notjust consumersof knowledge.

31. How do you do it?-- TPCK and Understanding by Design There is a new curriculum design model that helps us think about how to make assessment part of learning. Assessment before , during, and after instruction. • What do you want to know and be able to do at the end of this activity, project, or lesson? • What evidence will you collect to prove mastery? (What will you create or do) • What is the best way to learn what you want to learn? • How are you making your learning transparent? (connected learning) Teacher and Students as Co-Curriculum Designers Assessment is part of the learning process- student directed or teacher directed.

32. Connected Learning The computer connects the student to the rest of the world Learning occurs through connections with other learners Learning is based on conversation and interaction Stephen Downes

33. Connected Learner Scale This work is at which level(s) of the connected learner scale?Explain. Share (Publish & Participate) – Connect (Comment and Cooperate) – Remixing (building on the ideas of others) – Collaborate (Co-construction of knowledge and meaning) – Collective Action (Social Justice, Activism, Service Learning) –

34. Digital literacies • Social networking • Transliteracy • Privacy maintenance • Identity management • Creating content • Organizing content • Reusing/repurposing content • Filtering and selecting • Self presenting cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2010 http://www.mopocket.com/

35. Feedback • Task -oriented- Provides information on how well the task is being accomplished . • Clarification- Looks at process. • How to improve the work. • Self-regulating - Encourages learner to evaluate their own work. • Appreciation- specific praise linked to affective growth. • What makes a difference to student learning? • Constant and meaningful feedback • -- The Student • --Teacher relationship • --Challenging goals John Hattie, University of Auckland 2003

36. How to Blossom with Expectation – Building Efficacy • Examine (pay close attention) • Expose (what they did specifically) • Emotion (describe how it makes you feel) • Expect (blossom them by telling them what this makes you expect in the future) • Endear (through appropriate touch)

38. It’s about a re-culturation – a transformation - in the way we “do school” and a shift in what we value in this changing learning landscape.

39. http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/google_whitepaper.pdf

40. What does it look like? NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD webinar

41. Change is inevitable: Growth is optional Change produces tension- it pushes us out of our comfort zone. “Creative tension- the force that comes into play at the moment we acknowledge our vision is at odds with the current reality.” --Senge NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week pd webinar

42. Courage to Shift the way we teach and learnthe art of release… • It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. ~~Alan Cohen NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education week PD webinar

43. Last Generation NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education week pd webinar

44. Education Week PD Webinar • Paperless handouts • http://delicious.com/tag/edwksnbSheryl Nussbaum-Beach Co-Founder & CEO Powerful Learning Practice, LLChttp://plpnetwork.comsheryl@plpnetwork.comPresident21st Century Collaborative, LLChttp://21stcenturycollabrative.com • About me: http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/about-me NEW DIRECTIONS IN ASSESSMENT Education Week PD Webinar

45. Question & Answer Session Questions and Answers

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