Transforming Student Assessment

Action Steps:

• Create a model for digital portfolios using Seesaw as part of spring conferences

• Teachers and admin attend professional development from Global Online Academy: Transforming Assessment in Online Learning

• Accelerate beginning of year assessment protocols to ensure learning gaps are identified and addressed

Action Steps:

• Develop a project based learning unit for DLP / family based groups

• Create a model for digital portfolios using Seesaw as part of spring conferences

• Use MAP data and MAP skills in a more sophisticated way to target growth goals for students

• Use single point rubrics from Global Online Academy

• Teachers and admin attend professional development from Global Online Academy: Transforming Assessment in Online Learning

• Accelerate beginning of year assessment protocols to ensure learning gaps are identified and addressed

Action Steps:

• Create a model for digital portfolios using Google Sites in Grade 6-10

• Investigate the idea of Mastery Transcript with a possible pilot for G6-8

• Join the Mastery Transcript Consortium

• Explore ways to share evidence with universities

• Facilitate student self assessment of ATLs with evidence

Action Steps:

• Teachers and administrators attend professional development from Global Online Academy: Transforming Assessment in Online Learning

• Accelerate beginning of year assessment protocols to ensure learning gaps are identified and addressed

• Create a school wide aligned protocol for our digital portfolios, using Seesaw or Google sites, in time for our spring conferences

• Connect to the Upper School pilot of Mastery Transcript for possible future enhancement of our G6-8 e-portfolios

• Use MAP data and MAP skills in a more sophisticated way to target personal growth goals for students (G3-8)

• Facilitate student self assessment of Approaches to Learning (ATLs) with evidence, against criteria

• Use assessment as a lens for planning teaching and learning across the campus, with a school goal for teachers to become increasingly assessment capable across the curriculum

• Transform student assessment to incorporate broader approaches to learning and reflect a growth-oriented model of learning, encompassing the IB ATLs and the IB learner profile into student reflection and teacher assessment approaches (G6-8)

• Provide a parent information presentation on assessment on the range of student assessment strategies applied across the school and across the curriculum and how we are developing a personalized student learning profile