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Draft New York State P-12 Science Learning Standards for preview have been posted. Please visit http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/sci/ngss.html for more information about the draft standards and for links to the draft standards.

The Department encourages you to download the draft standards, review them and the associated resources included in the introduction, and discuss them at length with your colleagues. The Department anticipates posting a survey to collect feedback regarding the standards on December 2, 2015 and leaving the survey open for approximately two months.

Final Survey

Please complete the following survey in order to receive your certificate of completion

This must be completed by the end of school day Monday in order to get completion certificates out. 

CLICK HERE

FINAL TASK:

Watch the webinar from 36:50 to the end and Complete Page 8 and 9 in your workbook

Sharing Authentic Summative Tasks

After completing Page 8, Please CLICK HERE to open the Google Doc in which each person will share one summary of a summative task that they have revised in order to increase its learner-centeredness based on the strategies discussed.  

Task 9:

Watch the webinar from 34:20 to 36:50  and use workbook pages 6-7

Comment on the following:

How do these assessment examples compare to the Science assessments you currently develop or administer?

Comment on at least one other post and offer ideas on how to refine or expand assessments that are being used.

Task 6:

Watch the video from 18:30 to 20:15

What am I trying to collect evidence of?

Write a post reflecting on the following:

- Thinking about the first 4 components of a "good" assessment (Alignment, Impact, Reliability and Quantity) what are your thoughts on these and how you use them to create assessments in Science? What areas may you need to work on?
-Comment on a colleagues post

Task 8:

Watch the Video from 24:45 until 34:20

Hallmarks of a Learner-Centered Assessment

Comment on the Following 

1. -How can you break down walls between assessment and learning?

2. -What is one way (make a small move) you can make assessment a process and not an event in your Science curriculum this year?

3. - Give one example of an embedded assessment in Science

4. - What is one way to give students more responsibility with assessment in your Science instruction?

Task 7:

Watch the video from 20:15 to 24:45 and reference Page 5 in your workbook

Authenticity

Complete page 5 in your workbook. 

Comment on the following:

- What are your thoughts on Authentic Tasks? Do you use them in your Science instruction and assessment?

- Please share one example and/or experiences that rated high in authenticity from your chart on page 5

- Also, please comment on each others posts and give feedback on tasks that are shared in regards to authenticity.

Task 5:

Watch the video from 15:15 to 18:30

What am I trying to collect evidence of?

Write a post reflecting on the following:

- Do you have a correct balance of learning targets being assessed in your Science instruction?

- Looking into the future of Science/STEM standards, Id like you to take a look at the Next Generation Science Standards that are currently being developed and could be implemented in the next few years in NY State.
Here is a link to a 4th grade unit on Energy: CLICK HERE

-What do you notice about the Practices, Core Ideas and Concepts related to Energy? Do you see a change in the way we instruct in Science, and how does this then relate to assessment and what we are trying to collect evidence of? 

Task 4:

Start the webinar at 12:00 and watch until 15:15

How do we Collect Evidence?

Think about how you currently assess in your Science Curriculum  and reflect upon what you are asking students for when using these types of assessments listed on page 4

Comment on the following:

- Choose one of the types listed and give an example of how it could be used  in your Science instruction. 

Make sure you also include what you "get" (thinking, knowledge, abilities) from your students when using this type of assessment.

(these could be examples you currently use or you can develop ideas for future use)

Task 3:

Start the webinar at 3:15 and watch until 12:00

How we assess students:

Comment on the following:

- Refer to page 3 in your workbook; choose one moment that you currently use in your Science instruction in order to assess and share what this assessment tells you about your students 

- Why do you assess your students?

- Offer comments to others's posts on how to they assess and what certain moments tell us about students. 

Task 2:

Access the webinar.

Watch the webinar for the first 3 minutes 15 seconds and refer to your workbook page 2

Comment on the following:

After reviewing page 2 in your workbook, reflect on the following questions:

- Are you measuring what matters in your current classroom?

-Give an example of one informal and one formal way of assessing learning in Science that you currently use?

- Are you currently asking your students to show what they know in a variety of ways and in a variety of moments within your Science curriculum?

Task 1:

DIRECTIONS:

1. To begin please CLICK HERE and download and print the Content Design Workbook for SCIENCE.
This will be the book that you use as you work through the webinar. 

2. Please practice accessing the webinar provided by Learner-Centered Initiatives that we will be discussing and using throughout the next 2 weeks

     DIRECTIONS: -  CLICK HERE to begin access

                                 -  Enter the following:  User ID: CBush@onboces.org

                                                                                                             Password: CB@obcs01 

                               - Choose the Science Webinar 

For your first post this week, before watching the webinar, please comment on the following:

Currently, how do you assess your students on science curriculum?

Introductions

Blog Conversations will all be done in this forum. In order to respond to my post you must comment at the bottom of the conversation. In order to reply to other people's comment you will hit "reply" under their comment.

To begin, please share with everyone your name, school district, title, background in Science (what grades or Curriculum do you teach), and one goal you have this current school year in regards to your Science instruction. 

Welcome!

Welcome to the Online Seminar for Quality Assessment Design: Science!

This workshops is designed to help you  focus on the attributes/hallmarks of a leaner-centered assessment and will allow teachers and administrators to collaborate on assessment design.  The goal is to increase participants’ understanding of what a quality assessment looks like and provide you with the tools necessary to create a quality assessment of your own

Throughout this two week online study please feel free to share anything you have learned thus far and ask any and all questions so that everyone can learn together!

My name is Jessi Toepfer and I will be your facilitator for this online workshop. I currently work at O/N BOCES as a PD Specialist and I am here to help in any way I can.

My work contact information:  Jtoepfer@onboces.org      (716)-731-6800 ext. 3758

My email for this Blog is: Jccheer26@gmail.com

Please dont hesitate to contact me for anything that you may need!

The last date of this workshop is Friday, November 20th, 2015. I will submit all certificates for 15 credit hours upon completion of all your posts by Monday, November 23rd , 2015. If you have any required forms that need to be filled out for your district I will be happy to get those sent back to you ASAP. It is your professional responsibility to participate in the workshop to the best of your ability in order to receive the 15 credit hours of PD. I ask that you comment at least once on your own for each post I create and respond to a minimum of one other persons comment per post. Please note, because this is a 2 week course for 15 PD hours it will be very fast paced with a new post almost every day. To fully engage in what this workshop has to offer it is important to not fall behind so that you are able to have quality conversations with all participants. I ask that you please complete all of week one's tasks before the start of the next week in order to keep us all on the same page. 

To create a profile you can click on the upper right corner (Sign In) and this will also connect you through your Gmail account so that your name will be shown.(Often this does not work with a school-issued Gmail, you must use a personal one)  If you choose to comment as Anonymous, please always sign your posts with your name. Some tasks that we will be completing will be done through google docs and forms so having a Gmail account is important but you can create a Google Account using any email address.  (If you need any help creating a gmail account please let me know asap)

Before beginning class  please create your account by signing in (top right-hand corner of the blog)  

CSIPD (Center for School Improvement and Professional Development) is holding online workshops and we hope to continue to do this to better meet the needs of our Component  Districts and Teachers. Please feel free to give any feedback to me throughout this course and there will be a final course evaluation given in order to help us better help you! Thank you in advance!

Jessi Toepfer