The Standards-Based Classroom
What to Look For and How to Support Your Teachers
This workshop provides an opportunity for leaders and administrators to understand the basics of standards-based assessment and instruction and scientific inquiry in their schools' classrooms and to support teachers with the process.
Broad Agenda
- Discuss ways to move scientific inquiry and communication forward as a whole staff
- Discuss what to look for in a standards-based classroom and how to question students about their scientific inquiry and communication
- Define the vocabulary of scientific-inquiry assessment and communication
- Define the types of assessment that an educator incorporates in her/his teaching
- Study and apply the Exemplars scientific inquiry and communication scoring rubric
- Link the Exemplars science inquiries and scoring rubric to state grade-level expectations depth of knowledge, state release items, etc.)