There’s a lot of talk about ensuring students are ready for college and career. What does
it mean and what are the implications for your district, school, academy and course?
Participants will discuss a definition and framework that can drive curriculum and
instruction, work-based learning and even the district system of support and assessment.
3. Brainstorming
What are the most important things that
students should know and be able to do upon
graduation from NAF Academy to better
prepare them for tomorrow’s economy and
society?
4.
5. Individual Reflection and Table Discussion
Read pages 14-15
and reference 27-32
What’s resonating?
What’s new for
you?
What question are
coming up for you?
9. Vertical Alignment of Student Outcomes
Level of Example of
Assessment College Career Alignment
Life
District
Graduate Profile
Effective Communicator
(District Outcomes)
Communicates effectively, orally, in
21st Century Domain
WASC School Site ESLRs writing, and non-verbally
College Domain
Career Domain
Employs appropriate terminology and
Pathway Outcomes protocols to perform effectively in
health care settings
Utilizes correct medical terminology in
Course Outcomes course projects and presentations
Accurately explains virological
Project Outcomes properties in presentation on vaccine
solution to pandemic project.
Student
10. Outcomes as a Driver
1 9 10 11 12
Outcome 1 + ++ +++ ++++
2 Outcome 2 ++ ++ +++ ++++
Outcome 3 + + ++ +++
Pathway identifies/refines graduate
outcomes aligned with school and …which are then articulated into
district… grade-level benchmarks…
4 3
…and the benchmarks are designed into projects …that are assessed using
with authentic products and performances. high-level rubrics…
11. Read pages 16-19
Implications
How does this apply to
my own work in my NAF
academy?
What role can college and
career ready outcomes
play in academic courses
as well as in Career
Technical courses?
What forms of
assessment would be
needed?
12. A Balanced System of Assessment
College and Career Ready Pathway Student Outcomes
Informative Transformative
Discipline-Based Interdisciplinary
Standardized Authentic
Summative Formative
State Local
Single Criteria Rubric-Based
Individual Teacher Common Task
Teacher Assessed Self and Peer Assessed
13. ConnectEd Resources
• Tools and manuals
• Video examples
• Electronic Performance
Mapping Tools
www.ConnectEdCalifornia.org
While the arrow points TO summative in the last frame, in the DESIGN PROCESS – GOES BACKWARDS.Start with the outcomesMap the outcomes at varying levels of rigor and complexity – benchmarks/milestones – where students should be at a point in time.Design those into grade level projectsDevelop rubrics that are high level, and map to the benchmarksThis process takes time! One step at a time.
A BALANCED SYSTEM INCORPORATES BOTH INFORMATIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE DIMENSIONS. THE INFORMATIVE DIMENSION DOES PRECISELY THAT – IT INFORMS. THE TRANSFORMATIVE ELEMENT OF ASSESSMENT OFFERS THE POTENTIAL TO SPUR LEARNING, GROWTH, AND CHANGE – IN EVERYONE.