1. SWS’s Virtual Learning Commons:
https://sites.google.com/site/samshawvlc
Then click on “Experimental Learning Centre”
A PD Day designed by Your PD Committee!
ASSESSMENT AT SWS

2. Table Groups
 Group1: Rob, Wendy, Chris, Jeff, Tim and
Mavis
 Group 2: Gemma, Ryan, Erin Q., Kory, Brian,
Cathy and Ted,
 Group 3: Janet, Laura, Colin, Sarah, Greg,
Tavia and Sarah
 Group 4: David, Liz, Scott, Kate, Laura, Tiff
and Mary-Ann
 Group 5: Erin C, Darla, Gord, Janelle, Travis,
Alana and Bob

3. Agenda
 8:30 – 9:00: Voices of Our Students
 9:00 – 10:00: Digging into the CBE’s Quality
Assessment Standards. What does it look like?
 10:00 – 10:15: Break
 10:15 – 11:00: Presentations from above
 11:00 – 11:30: How do our beliefs line up with our
practice?
 11:30 – 12:30: Forming our personal Assessment
Mission Statements
 12:30: Quick survey
 Ends reporting discussion

4. Questions to Ponder Today
 How do our beliefs about assessment
translate to action?
 How does our own practice reflect the quality
assessment document from the CBE? What
does this look like?
 What are we willing to put out there as our
personal mission statements about
assessment?

5. Voices of Our Students
 We asked our students what they thought
about assessment. Here’s what they said.

6. Voices of Our Students
 Any insights? Comments?

7. CBE Quality Assessment
Document
 1o statements about what quality assessment
is.
 Developed through the analysis of Calgary
Board of Education guiding documents,
system directives, Alberta Education guiding
documents, Alberta Assessment Study,
Teacher Quality Standard and Principal
Quality Practice

8. Your Task
 Split your table group into 2 mini groups.
 Each group gets one CBE Quality Assessment
Standard.
 Your job is to show what this standard looks
like in our classrooms. What is the teacher
doing? What are the students doing?
 You can represent this in any way you like.
 Come back after break at 10:15 ready to
share.

9. Questions – Talk with your
tables
 How do our practices about assessment line
up with our beliefs?
 How does what we do here at SWS reflect the
CBE’s Quality Assessment Standards?
 Any insights you want to share with the
group?

10. Creating a Personal
Assessment Mission Statement
 A personal mission statement is a statement
to provide clarity and to give you focus.
 Other interchangeable terms: a statement of
intent, a manifesto, your quest on paper, a
declaration of awesomeness!
“A personal mission statement becomes
the DNA for every other decision we
make.” (Stephen Covey)

11. What to write about
 Write your personal assessment mission
statement about what you believe you need
to do to practice good assessment every day.
 Stuck on how to begin? Try:
 I am committed to…
 I will…
 I believe…
 My mission is…
 My assessment practice is guided by…

12. Making Your Mission Public
 You could: Make it pretty and post it somewhere
you can see it, like your bulletin board or on your
desk! Remember, like a mantra, the more you
see it, the more it becomes real.
 ALL: Add yours to the Google Form listed in our
SWS VLC so we have everyone’s all together.
 Go to the spreadsheet of results to see
everyone’s:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?
formkey=dGFQdUtSb3NsZmpwRE9IU0llaGRwU
mc6MQ

13. What do we Have in Common?
 Have one person at each table open the
Google Docs for tracking commonalities
(linked in VLC).
 Write single words. This will be turned into a
Wordle.

14. Feedback
 In moving forward, we’d love your feedback
as to what you want to focus on and what you
don’t.
 Please access the link to the feedback form.
 Of the ten aspects of Quality Assessment,
which do you feel is your greatest strength?
Which do you feel is an area of growth?
 Leave us any other feedback you’d like us to
see.