Curriculum Mapping Network

Principals and Senior LeadersMay 12, 2011

EssentiAl QuestionsHow do we measure the impact of curriculum mapping on teaching and learning?

How is technology impacting this result?

What are the ways in which we use assessment data to inform curriculum maps? How effective is this? What else do we need to consider?

How effectively do we gather and use assessment data in the integrated curriculum? What improvements might we make?

What mapping strategies are being used to effectively implement a 21st century learning community?

Measuring the ImpactCurriculum Content BalanceStructures and OrganisationResourcing Teaching PracticesLearning and Achievement

- Core Learning Areas: Literacy, Numeracy.- Other Learning Areas

Impact of TechnologyWhat is the current impact? How might we increase the constructive outcomes of implementing the mapping technology?SuccessesChallengesPossible Strategies Next Steps

Assessment Data Current situation

Strategies

Successes

Challenges

REquirementsCharacteristics of Effective Assessment

✤Benefits students

✤Involves Students

✤Supports Teaching and Learning Goals

✤Is Planned and Communicated

✤Is suited to purpose

✤Is Valid and Fair

Assessment is integral to the teacher inquiry process because it is the basis for both the focusing inquiry and the learning inquiry

NZC pg 40

MOE POsition Paper

In broad terms, this paper envisages a schooling system which uses assessment effectively at every level of the system to improve both teaching and learning.

That is, a learning system in which:

- every student in every school (English and Māori medium) progresses as far as possible and in the most appropriate way possible, according to their own context;

- all participants have a shared understanding of the role assessment plays in learning and are able and willing to both learn from, and contribute to, the process through effective participation within, and between, learning communities.

.......OF Learning For Learning

Inquiry is concerned with collecting good quality information from a range of sources (including feedback from others), interpreting it, and considering it against previous information and pre-set success indicators.

Decision-making is concerned with using the full range of information collected to decide what needs to be done next, identify the best way to adjust strategies, and provide informed feedback to others (student, teacher, parent, whānau, school) to support their inquiry process.

Adaptation is concerned with following through on the inquiry and consequent decision-making by responding positively and constructively to plan changes or develop new initiatives in line with what has been learned and decided.

Assessment StrategiesFormative Assessment

- a diagnostic process concerned with identifying achievement and progress and strengths and weaknesses in order to decide what action is needed to improve learning on a day by day basis.

- It is important to follow through on what is learned during the inquiry with adjustments that transform practice and improve learning. Transformative Assessment

Summative Assessment

- “Summing up” achievement at a specific point of time. used not only to ascertain level of achievement at a specific point of time but also to look back and consider what progress has been made over a period of time compared with expected progress.

- Can then be used as a basis for formal reporting or for meaningful and reciprocal learning conversations between teachers, students, parents and whānau about progress made, what next steps are appropriate, and how future learning can best be supported.

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Students will vary in terms of the socio-cultural context and world view (identity, language, and culture) they bring to their learning. If students are to fully engage with, and progress in their learning, assessment must be responsive to student context.

✤Student outcomes are dependent on a number of factors and do not always accurately reflect the extent of the contribution made by the various participants or the extent to which any real learning has taken place.

✤In the classroom context, “when true learning has occurred, it will manifest itself in performance.

✤The converse does not hold … mere performance on a test does not necessarily mean that learning has occurred. Learners can be taught how to score well on tests without much underlying learning.”

✤Similarly, at the aggregated level, the combined learning of all students will manifest itself in aggregated student performance information, but aggregated student performance information will not necessarily show that the best learning possible has occurred.

✤Aggregated information on its own does not indicate anything about the quality of teaching, the extent to which a school is making a difference for its students, or the extent to which it is supporting the learning for each and every student in the school.

✤For this reason, comparisons between schools, solely on the basis of aggregated student information, are misleading.

Overall Teacher JudgementTRiangulation of Information

Oral Language - Accountable Talk. Notice Non Verbal Cues. Value other ideas. Retell. Think Pair Share. Misconception Analysis

Questions - Constructing Effective Questions. Providing Non Verbal Support. Developing Authentic Questions. Developing Strategies That Promote Participation

Writing - Interactive Writing. Read,Write, Pair, Share. Summary Writing. RoleAudienceFormatTopic.

Projects and Performances - Learning Appropriate Goals. Scaffolds for Teacher and Learning. Opportunities for Formative Assessment & Revision. Collaboration: Group and Individual Responsibility. problem Based & Project Based.

Test - Multi Choice. Short Answer. Constructed Response and Essay Questions.

Common Assessment - Teacher Created: Learning Goal Focused. Consensus Scoring Criteria. Moderation. Review. Re-teach. Intervene

TestsCommon Assessments

Checking for Understanding

Start with the End in Mind - what tasks or test items will demonstrate this?What evidence will be acceptable?Present something for students to think about -intro text, visual, scenario, resource materials, or problemUse novel material - material new to students, not subject to recallDistinguish between level of difficulty & level of thinking and ensure separate controls for each

What are we assessing?

How to assess higher Order Thinking in the Classroom: Susan M Brookhart.2010. ASCD

Where to From Here?What is required?What assessment information will be relevant and valid?How will this assessment information be useful and purposeful?How will we ensure quality assessment strategies that align with learning goals? What members of the learning community will be involved in gathering and utilising the information?What structures and strategies will be used to ensure the assessment data is gathered and utilised as intended?

Mapping for 21st century Learning community

Tenets for purposeful debate

Global perspectives presented where natural and viable

Personal and Local perspective cultivated to form natural links to content

Whole child considered in content choices - academic, social, emotional and physical

Possibilities for future careers developed in creative and imaginative directions

Disciplines viewed dynamically and rigorously as growing and integrating in real world practice

Technology and media are used to expand possible sources of content so active and static materials are included

Complexity of content is developmentally matched to age and stage of learner

Guiding QuestionsWithin the disciplines being reviewed what content choices are dated and non essential?What choices for topics, issues, problems, themes, and case studies are timely and necessary for our learners within disciplines?Are interdisciplinary content choices rich, natural, and rigorous?

Text

assessment for 21st century Learning

✤ Step 1: Develop a pool of assessment replacements:Documentaries, Podcasts/blogs web sites, digital compositions, video conferences, email exchanges, online journals,

✤ Step 2: Teachers work with IT experts to identify existing availability and identify needs

✤ Step 3: Replace a dated assessment with a modern one

✤ Step 4: Share the assessment upgrades formally with colleagues: Update maps.

What now?

Where to from here? Outcomes to date?Actions?Expectations?