Within no more than two days of teaching the lesson, each member of the collaborative chooses three
pieces of student work from the rich performance task to bring to share and discuss.
Since asking for help or posing a question can be out of our comfort zones, bring a copy of a fun lesson or an
interesting piece of student work to start a conversation.
Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics and accompanying CD - ROM draws from over 20 years of the author's direct experiences with developing rubrics and performance tasks, devising interesting ways to use rubrics as teaching tools in the classroom, employing rubrics to score thousands
of pieces of student work for classroom and large - scale assessments, and working with teachers to make their rubrics more instructionally powerful.
Carol Scriven added, «We use the EB - 595Wi projectors and their wireless connectivity with iPads and Android tablets as they give us the ability to view and compare at least four
pieces of student work simultaneously.
What can a close look at
specific pieces of student work reveal and illuminate about the real meaning of Common Core or other standards, like the Next Generation Science Standards?
Looking at Student Work involves closely examining
representative pieces of student work, and asking questions about why kinds of learning students are doing, what kind of evidence can we find of student learning in their assessments.
We should give every interviewee for a teacher or principal position
anonymous pieces of student work and ask him or her to evaluate that work compared to the school, district, state, provincial, or national standards for academic quality.
Making judgments about student learning and school quality based on a body of work — a select number
of pieces of student work from a number of assessments within a given discipline, provides a much richer and more accurate picture of student learning than a single, disconnected standardized test.
How will you ensure
the pieces of student work that you select remain anonymous?
The standard school procedure (in which a teacher looks at
a piece of student work and writes something on it, and the student later looks at what the teacher has written) does not necessarily increase student learning.
No single assessment or
piece of student work can provide the robust information needed to inform teaching, learning, and supports, as well as public accountability and continuous improvement of education systems through families, policymakers, and other stakeholders.