Quickly consider these questions as a group:
| 1. When and where will the next meeting be held? | ||
| 2. Does the team need to stay on Step Four, which is to establish the culminating task students will do for the unit? If so, each team member needs to do more thinking, using the Student Task Brainstorming Tool and/or contacting resource people or finding resources. Everyone should go to the next meeting with one good idea. If the student task is set, go to 3. | ||
| 3. Step Five is about writing an authentic assessment tool for the culminating task. Your team may or may not have had training in the development and use of rubrics, checklists and other kinds of authentic assessment tools. If not, perhaps one team member or another teacher from the school has taken a course or attended a conference and could spend time teaching this to the rest of the team. Alternatively, if someone in the school district specializes in assessments, you may want to schedule some time with that person for some training. These two books were mentioned at the beginning of the tutorial; hopefully, you have found these or similar resources by now: | ||
| The Mindful School: How to Assess Authentic Learning by Kay Burke. Published by IRI/SkyLight Training and Publishing, Inc., 2626 S.Clearbrook Drive, Arlington Heights, IL 60005-5310, 800-348-4474 or 847-290-6600. ISBN 0-932935-75-3 www.iriskylight.com Chapters in this 170 page book include Thoughtful Outcomes, Standardized Tests, Teacher-Made Tests, Portfolios, Performances and Exhibitions, Projects, Learning Logs and Journals, Metacognitive Reflection, Observation Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Interviews and Conferences, and The Final Grade. The book is full of explanations, rationales, and examples of rubrics, checklists, and prompts for student writing. (out of print | ||
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Checklists for Super Student Projects by Sandra Lee Schuler. Grades 5-8. Published by GOOD APPLE, An Imprint of Modern Curriculum, A Division of Simon & Schuster, 299 Jesserson Road, P.O. Box 480, Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480. ISBN 1-56417-660-6 This 48 page booklet contains 37 checklists for a variety of projects. Although the checklists are reproducible, teachers may want to tailor them for their own uses. |
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| 4. To prepare for the next meeting, each team member should look over these resources: | ||
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Blank rubric chart- five point scoring | Blank rubric chart-four point scoring |
| Blank weighted checklist | Rubric from Winter unit | |
| Weighted checklist from Rivers unit | Participation rubric from War Experiences unit | |
| Group work rubric | ||