Documentation+&+Assessment

Documentation and Assessment Workshop
Facilitators: Camille Dempsey and Cory Wilkerson


 * Big Idea: Documentation as dialogue**
 * .................recording, reflecting, sharing**

What might documentation look like in arts infused instruction? http://artinaction.wikispaces.com/Documenting+Experiences

Explore Cambridge Springs Visual Arts Residency with Tom Ferraro

** What did you notice? ** ** What does this mean? ** ** What is the purpose of this documentation? ** ** How might this documentation help us understand what the children have learned? ** ** Why does it matter? **

** [[file:Insights from Documentation Session.docx|Click here for responses from the August Learning Lab 2012]] **
Opening: [|The Clapping Hands Institute] What is an assessment? How many kinds of assessments can you name in five minutes? Click here for from the Learning Lab session. What would you add? Are there any you would change?
 * Big Idea: Assessment as communication**
 * .................informing curriculum and instruction**

.................**connecting learning to teaching and instruction**
 * Big idea: Documentation as assessment**

Explore the residency plan:

** What kinds of assessment did you see? **** What is the purpose? **** How might this assessment help us understand what the children have learned in language arts? **** In Drama? **

WANT TO LEARN MORE?

 * WEBSITES**

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 * Pennsylvania's Standards Aligned Systems**

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 * Association for Middle Level Education**

[|http://ctcurriculum.org]
 * Connecticut State Department of Education Curriculum Site** - search for examples of arts curriculum and assessment tasks

Excellent examples of what assessment might look like in arts integration.
 * PUBLICATIONS**
 * Assessment in Arts Integration**

//**Formative Assessment: Examples of Practice**// - a work product initiated and led by Caroline Wylie, ETS, for the CCSSO Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST) SCASS []

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 * //Attributes of Effective Formative Assessment//** - A work product coordinated by Sarah McManus, NC Department of Public Instruction, for the Formative Assessment for Students and Teachers (FAST) Collaborative

//**Common-Core-Aligned Performance Assessments**// - Teacher's College Reading & Writing Project []

//**Performance Assessment**// - a "how to" from a course developed in partnership between the Pinellas School District and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at USF. []