Learning Opportunities

Assessing Critical Competencies: Modernizing Assessment & Reporting

Presented By

Tom Schimmer

Series Sessions

Date Time
Thursday, May 21, 2020 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Location

Online Online

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, please know that SAPDC is working to support your Professional Learning needs.  We are reaching out to our presenters scheduled for the rest of the 2019-20 school year to explore online methods of delivery.  Registered participants will be contacted via email of status changes of learning opportunities.

Now is the time to modernize assessment and reporting to align with the goals of 21st century learning. Putting the right practices in place is the critical next step in ensuring all students master essential intellectual and social skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. 

During this training, participants will explore a framework for creating more personalized and relevant experiences for learners and determine specific actions and decisions that need to be made at the district, school, and classroom levels. Participants are encouraged to attend as a team, as time will be available for collaborative action planning. 

Participants will learn: 

  • The big picture of curricular reform and the way that the means and ends of learning are shifting 
  • Which assessment fundamentals remain essential and which (MAY/likely will) become somewhat marginalized or even antiquated 
  • The fundamental principles of performance assessments (including project or problem-based learning) and how they must transform the assessment norms of every classroom, school, and district 
  • The practices and processes necessary to assess critical thinking, creative thinking, and collaborative thinking 
  • How the development of specific social skills will lead to learners becoming more socially competent 
  • The practices and processes necessary to ensure that the assessment of critical competencies is both 
  • Potential ways student growth and developemtn can be reported to parents and others

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