Welcome to English 3 and 4 PLT Leaders Meeting

1. Welcome to English 3 and 4PLT Leaders Meeting English Wiki wcpssenglish.pbworks.com CLICK PLT Leaders February 18th > Powerpoint

2. Promoting Student Learning Performance Tasks for Rigorous Thinking

3. Learning Objectives • By the end of this session, participants will be able to… • Explain WHY Performance Tasks are valuable instructional and assessment structures for deep learning. • List 7 key skills that students must be able to demonstrate on Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks. • List 5 instructional techniques that teachers should use to train students for complex, integrated thinking. Today’s Objectives

4. Today’s Agenda

5. Learn by Doing What is a Performance Task?

6. Packet of information • Part 1 Instructions—(yellow) • Notetakingchart • 4 Sources • Wikipedia • Letter-Washington Post • Letter-Ottumwa Courier • Reason.com • Research Questions •  • Part 2 Instructions (yellow) You will need Digitals at http://sqworl.com/8lfkbx

9. Let’s Begin… Read Part 1

10. James Hansen on Nuclear Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alrxqx_B34s

11. CNN Report: Fukushima’s Meltdown Zone a Year Later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6oQAyunXqk

12. Continuewith Part 1 Tasks…

13. Let’s Continue… Part 2

14. What content knowledge do they require? What skills do they require? So… What ARE Performance Tasks?

15. Effect on Knowledge • Traditional testing and tasks: • Do you know it? • Performance assessment and tasks: • How well can you use what you know? • Integrates content knowledge, process skills, work habits, and authentic literacy Why Use Performance Tasks? Hibbard et al. Teacher’s Guide to Performance Based Learning and Assessment. (1996).

16. Upcoming NC Accountability Measures • Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium http://www.smarterbalanced.org/ • Multi-State consortium to develop CCSS-aligned tests • NC chose to work with SBAC, not PARCC • 4 Item and Task Types • Selected Response • Technology-Enhanced • Constructed Response • Performance Tasks Why Use Performance Tasks? • Performance Tasks

17. Strategic and Extended Thinking Why Use Performance Tasks?

18. The 5E Instructional Model Why Use Performance Tasks?

19. The use of Performance Tasks… • Does not change the curriculum significantly … BUT… • DOESinfluence teachers to use a wide array of instructional strategiesmodeled on the Performance Tasks their districts have developed Why Use Performance Tasks? Research Report. How Performance Assessments Affect Teaching and Learning (ASCD, 1995).

20. Effect on Student Learning • More engagementwith project-based tasks than other assignments • Better writing skills and habits • Better study habits • More rigorous content challenge Why Use Performance Tasks? Research Report. How Performance Assessments Affect Teaching and Learning (ASCD, 1995).

21. Authentic-scenario project-based learning tasks • Reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, product • Integrate content knowledge, process skills, and work habits • Teach (or assess) multiple standards within a focused task • Can range from short activities (partial class) to polished projects for authentic audience (multiple classes) • Better measure than traditional test of • Depth of understanding • Research skills • Complex analysis • Critical thinking • Ability to “pull it all together” • What are PerformanceTasks?

22. How long does it take for students to learn all of these skills? What is the best way to teach all of these skills?

23. List as many skills as you can that students must have to be successful on Performance Task Assessments. • How are teachers at your school already giving students the learning experiences they need to learn those skills? • What changes to the student learning experience do teachers need to design and implement? What’s Next for Teaching and Learning Cycles?

24. Go to http://www.smarterbalanced.org • Pull Down: Smarter Balanced Assessments • Click: Sample Items and Performance Tasks • Scroll down to English Language Arts/Literacy (about halfway down) • Click: English Language Arts/Literacy • Pull Down: View More English Language Arts/Literacy Sample Items • Click: Nuclear Power (High School/Performance Task/Bottom Right) Look closely

25. I Can… • Explain WHY Performance Tasks are valuable instructional and assessment structures for deep learning. • List 7 key skills that students must be able to demonstrate on Smarter Balanced Performance Tasks. • List 5 instructional techniques that teachers should use to train students for complex, integrated thinking. Fist to 5 Self-Assessment

26. Your Primary Contact Sara Overby Coordinating Teacher for Secondary Literacy soverby@wcpss.net 919-431-7571 (office) Crossroads 1, cube 2516 Wiki of Resources >wcpssenglish.pbworks.com >Professional Resources > Literacy > >Training > Writing Performance Tasks https://wcpssenglish.pbworks.com/w/page/73619954/Writing%20Performance%20Tasks Another Great Resource Catherine Trudell Senior Administrator for High School English ctrudell@wcpss.net 919-431-7643 (office) Crossroads 1, cube 2513 WCPSS Performance Task Writing Team Eng 3 Geoff Thomas, Holly Springs HS Alicia Whitley, Leesville Rd HS Eng4 Merry Noyes, Fuquay Varina HS Sharon Winzeler, Broughton HS Thank you!