Day 1
01 Intro 02 CSD Overview 03 Break 04 ML 1: U1L3 05 Tools and Strategies 06 Lunch 07 ML 2: U1L7 08 Tools and Strategies 09 Lesson Assignments 10 Break 11 Lesson Planning 12 Wrap Up 13 Fac. Debrief
Day 2
14 Intro 15 ML 3: U2L2 16 Tools and Strategies 17 Break 18 Lesson Planning 19 Lunch 20 ML 4: U2L3 21 Break 22 Tools and Strategies 23 TLO 1: U2L5 24 Wrap Up 25 Fac. Debrief
Day 3
26 Intro 27 Understanding Context 28 TLO 2: U2L6 29 Break 30 TLO 3: U2L9 31 Lunch 32 TLO 4: U2L11 33 Classroom Culture 34 Break 35 TLO 5: U2L16 36 Wrap Up 37 Fac. Debrief
Day 4
38 Intro 39 Bias and Responsibility 40 Unit 3 Intro 41 Break 42 TLO 6: U3L2 43 TLO 7: U3L3 44 Lunch 45 Differentiation 46 TLO 8: U3L4 47 Break 48 Content Wrap Up 49 Barriers, Opportunities, and Commitments 50 Wrap Up 51 Fac. Debrief
Day 5
52 Intro 53 Prep for the Year 54 Assessment 55 Break 56 Revisit Topics 57 Community 58 Lunch 59 Planning 60 Closing Ceremonies 61 End Early & Friday Facilitator Debrief

Session 54: Assessment

45 minutes

discussion-based

Purpose

  • Take a deeper look at assessment resources available in the curriculum
  • Discuss with other teachers who grade and assess in similar ways about how to grade and assess CS Discoveries

Objectives

  • Participants develop concrete strategies and plans for assessment while using this curriculum
  • Participants make plans for sharing resources and think about how they can build off of each other’s work
  • Participants become more familiar with the assessment resources in the curriculum

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup

  • Participants are seated in pods

Facilitator Supplies and Prep

Teacher Materials

Agenda

Assessment Groups (5 minutes)

Assessment in the Curriculum (20 minutes)

Make a Plan (20 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Assessment Groups (5 minutes)

Facilitator Tip

To save time here, you might choose to have participants sit in these groups at the start of the day.

(5 minutes) Creating Groups

Remarks

Earlier this week we started our conversation about assessment. Today you will have the opportunity to turn your initial ideas into concrete plans. This is a working session where you will go through the assessments in the CSD curriculum and look at how you will leverage what’s in the curriculum to meet your own needs in your school. The benefit of doing this today is the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other educators. However, many of us have different school requirements and norms around assessment. Before we begin our working session we are going to create groups with similar grading contexts.

Facilitator Instructions:

  • Project the list of common assessment types (standards based, mastery, ABCDF, non-graded)
  • Ask participants if they use a grading method not listed. Make note of this grading type
  • Poll the room to get a sense for how many people fall into each group
  • Assign each assessment and grading type into regions of the room
  • Have people move to their part of the room

Assessment in the Curriculum (20 minutes)

Facilitator Tip

Remind participants that they can use the Guide to Assessment on pages 43 - 44 of the Curriculum Guide.

(20 minutes) Explore Assessment Opportunities

Prompt: Explore different assessment types (lesson level assessment opportunities, end of chapter projects, end of unit tests) within the curriculum.

As you review think about:

  • What are the learning goals (both content and practices) for these activities?
  • What do students create or produce to demonstrate knowledge?

Make a Plan (20 minutes)

(12 minutes) Develop a Plan for Assessment

Prompt: Work with your group to develop a plan for using these assessments to assign grades and or provide feedback to students

  • How will you use the assessment opportunities in the curriculum?
  • What additional work will you need to do to make these assessments work for your context?
  • What additional assessments will you need to create? Would there be value in sharing them?