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Understanding Proficiency – Grade 3
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Skip to primary navigation. Understanding Proficiency - Learning from Student Work on Performance Tasks. View the Performance Task. Astronauts Informational Performance Task. Grade 3-5 Informational Rubric. Take the Practice Test. This performance task comes from the Smarter Balanced practice test. Download Student Work and Scoring Examples. The educators who scored and annotated the third-grade student samples wrote reflections on the patterns of performance they observed and their strategies to support...
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Understanding Proficiency – Grade 5
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Skip to primary navigation. Understanding Proficiency - Learning from Student Work on Performance Tasks. View the Performance Task. Service Animals Opinion Performance Task. Grade 3-5 Opinion Rubric. Take the Practice Test. This performance task comes from the Smarter Balanced practice test. Download Student Work and Scoring Examples. The educators who scored and annotated the fifth-grade student samples wrote reflections on the patterns of performance they observed and their strategies to support studen...
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Understanding Proficiency – Video Library
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Skip to primary navigation. Understanding Proficiency - Learning from Student Work on Performance Tasks. These videos feature educators working together to score and analyze student work, and reflecting on that process. Instructional Shifts and Implications. In this video, National Board Certified teacher Julie Webb explains how looking at student work helped her deepen her understanding of the instructional shifts of the Common Core. How to Use Student Work in Professional Learning. Looking Closely at A...
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Understanding Proficiency – Grade 4
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Skip to primary navigation. Understanding Proficiency - Learning from Student Work on Performance Tasks. View the Performance Task. Animals and Their Surroundings Informational Performance Task. This performance task comes from the Smarter Balanced practice test. This specific task asks students to read three informational articles describing how animals adapt to their environment. Students answer three research questions (constructed- and selected-response items) that require them to evaluate so...
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Should high school students have to ‘defend’ their diploma like a Ph.D?
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Covering Innovation and Inequality in Education. Should high school students have to ‘defend’ their diploma like a Ph.D? California’s new way of ranking school performance could open the door to portfolio assessments. August 7, 2015. This story also appeared in McClatchy. Seniors at Los Angeles High School of the Arts work on their graduation portfolios in Isabel Morales’s social studies class. Photo: Brenda Iasevoli. Which obstacles did you face and how did you overcome them? Portfolio assessments like ...
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Educators — Greater Springfield ConnectED Consortium
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GIRLS in STEM 2017. GIRLS in STEM 2017. The world around us is changing rapidly. Now, more than ever, students need to see the connection between what they are learning in the classroom and how it applies to everyday life. We must work to ensure that learning is meaningful, real, and relevant. Teachers are better able to encourage peer-to-peer collaboration, and to motivate students to think creatively, take risks, and solve problems in real time. This Connected Learning Infographic. Academic content des...
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PORTFOLIOS VS TESTING FOR GRADUATION - Passion In EducationPassion In Education
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Educational Support for All! Skip to primary content. PORTFOLIOS VS TESTING FOR GRADUATION. August 10, 2015. Should high school students have to ‘defend’ their diploma like a Ph.D? California’s new way of ranking school performance could open the door to portfolio assessments. August 7, 2015. Seniors at Los Angeles High School of the Arts work on their graduation portfolios in Isabel Morales’s social studies class. Photo: Brenda Iasevoli. Which obstacles did you face and how did you overcome them? Portfo...
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Teacher Preparation | Co-Opt-Ed
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We at Co-Opt-Ed are befuddled by what is happening in Albany. If you haven’t heard, the Board of Regents ruled on a modification to full edTPA implementation. What? It seems to us that politics are playing out now and it becomes harder to see the extent to which voices from the field are really being heard. We are eager to see what comes out of the hearings. That, as far as we know, are still on for today in Albany. Here are some of the reports we’ve been following:. That came out this past Monday. The N...
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