Examining Student Work: Connecting and Aligning Student Artifacts and Resources to High Stakes Curriculum and Tests

All of our training opportunities are site-specific. That is, the content is tailored to the expressed needs of the participants, and it is delivered to your site.

Without conscious alignment of materials and resources used in teaching and learning activities to the established, high-priority curriculum expectations (especially to high stakes testing), student work and classroom proceedings can miss the mark. This workshop is designed to provide leaders with tools to assist school districts in calibrating and aligning their curriculum resources with learner expectations and the measured curriculum (i.e., testing).

Participants will learn to:

• Use a research-based process for examining classroom artifacts of student work for content, context and cognitive level.
• Calibrate artifact objectives to curriculum standards and objectives.
• Chart calibrated data by grade level, course, and subject matter area.

Guided practice will incorporate actual calibration activities with authentic artifacts gathered from school districts.

For more information, or to schedule this training, contact
PDK Professional Development at 800/766-1156
E-mail: PDKProfessionalDevelopment@pdkintl.org

Graduate Credit is available for this workshop. Call for details.

Our Mission:
We know, we believe, and we support that professional development is an intentional process, that it is ongoing, and that it is systemic. We know that it must be integrated within school improvement planning and it must focus on student improvement. It must be based on well-documented research, and it must be tailored to the needs of the participants and delivered to them at their site.