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IETA Presentation - Feb 12, 2004
Student Technology Standards: What is our evidence?
Projects & Portfolios
Brief Overview
 | Why standards? |
| History & Timeline |
| What do they look like? |
| 8th Standards - K-7th Benchmarks |
Definitions
| Portfolio - a collection of a student's work that shows
competency in a defined set of skills |
| Project - a task that requires a student to create a
product, display, presentation or artifact which displays competency in
certain specific skills. |
| Skills - the content knowledge and skills column in the
standards document; the most specific things a student should know and be able
to do. |
Steps to the process (in Kuna)
| List the skills in a easy-to-read checklist for the grade
level |
| Look for natural connections between content area skills
(Science, Math, language Arts, History, Health) and technology skills |
| Create assignments (projects) that require students to
demonstrate the technology skills within the content areas |
| Provide resources to teachers to assist in instruction |
| Create a rubric to assess student mastery of the skills in
each project |
| Gather the projects into a collection of work (portfolio)
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Examples
How could we report this to stakeholders? What about
accountability?
| Accreditation Questions |
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Do you have a process to assess student mastery of technology standards?
(Yes/No) |
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How many of your 8th grade students have demonstrated mastery? (Percentage) |
| ISIMS: Standards-based checklists/report cards |
| Phase 2 report |
Benefits:
| Portfolios can be taken to high school and added onto |
| Students could take portfolios to job interviews and use
with college application materials |
| Students who move from district to district could take it
with them to show competencies and areas for growth - no need to "start over" |
| Adding to the portfolio each year will show growth over
time - to compliment other growth data such as ISAT or DWA & DMA |
| Modeled after the Portfolio System used for teacher
competency |
Our plan - Kuna Middle School 8th graders:
| Pilot project with 125 eighth graders and draft materials,
2nd semester |
| Start with curriculum maps |
| Refine and rewrite projects & lessons as needed through the spring |
| Evaluate success and needs at the end of the year |
| Share with other districts next fall at Standards
Conference |
| Extend Pilot to all grades and students next fall |
For more information:
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