Authentic Assessment

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Authentic Assessment

• A Presentation by
• The S.W.A.T. Team
• Otherwise known as the G.T.s

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Authentic Assessment

• Assessing children for the Real World
• In a time where No Child Can Be Left
  Behind!!!!

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What is Authentic Assessment?

• This assessment measures the students ability in
  real life tasks and situations.
• It is an extended form of assessment that may
  have aspects of performance based within it.

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Historically

• Insanity is continuing to do the same thing over
  and over and expecting different results.
• -Albert Einstein

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Out with the Old,In with the New

• School Day
• Homogenous Grouping
• Attendance Counts!
• Time on Learning
• District and School Goals
• Promotion Requirements

• Focusing on Blooms Taxonomy
• Application of achievement test results
• Student/Teacher Ratios
• Time on Task
• Personalizing Instruction

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Todays Vision

• Overall Mission
• Shared Vision
• Outcome Driven
• Analyze Assessment
• As we let go the machine models of work, we
  begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways,
  to appreciate our wholeness, and to design
  organizations that honor and make use of the
  totality of who we are.
• -Margaret Wheatley

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That was then, This is now!

• THEN
• Assessments that limit the frame of reference by
  which people will judge the system.
• Assessments that signal that personal knowledge
  and experience are of little worth.
• The conception of curriculum instruction and
  assessment as separate entities in a system.

• NOW
• Assessments that assist learners in
  understanding, expanding, and considering
  alternative frames.
• Assessments of knowledge being produced from
  within the learner.
• Communicating that the learners personal
  knowledge and experience is of great worth.

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Getting the Job Done

• Changing paradigms requires time and courage!
• Administrators, teachers, students and parents
  need to work collaboratively in order to
  accomplish the desired outcomes.

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Hitting the Mark

• Establish clear performance targets.
• Strive for authenticity in products and
  performances.
• Publicize criteria and performance standards.
• Provide models of excellence
• Teach strategies explicitly
• Use ongoing assessments for feedback
• and adjustment.
• Document and celebrate progress.

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Unit ScenariosStaffing The Way We Were

• Teachers were hired to fill-in-the blanks within
  a schools faculty.
• Teachers could be expected to teach outside their
  realm of expertise.

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Staffing Look At Us Now!

• Teachers are placed into positions within
  certified disciplines.
• In hiring school staff, leaders identify teachers
  who have knowledge and experience with the
  inclusion model, differentiated learning,
  technology and curriculum framework integration,
  and authentic assessment.

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Scheduling Lost Time

• Teaching occurred in isolated classrooms.
• Each teacher only used time given and no more.
• No time was utilized for teacher collaboration
  and the sharing of ideas.

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SchedulingMaking the MOST of our time

• To teach with authentic assessments, teachers are
  able to
• Meet in teams and design interdisciplinary
  lessons.
• Have students for longer time frames.
• Work cooperatively with each other and team teach.

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The End

• Submitted by
• Peri Jacoubs, Pat Higgins,
• Debra Cacciatore,
• Paula Del Prete, Kim Hebert