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1.Creating and promoting an environmentand community focused on student learning

How can student and teacher goal-setting be a foundation for student learning? How can development of relationships promote student learning? How can increasing student self and peer assessment affect student learning? How does personalized and effective classroom management enhance student learning?

2.Curriculum comes from Latin and means "running a course". Wiggins says that curriculum is a roadmap most likely to cause student learning.

If we expect performance based learning, we must support development of both formative and summative performance based assessments. We also need to design/support collaborative professional development that gives teachers the resources and instructional strategies that support the performance goals.

Our group felt that these questions were so inter-related. These are each issues that HAVE to be addressed to create a learning community. They all apply to teachers AND students. We must create sense of trust, relationships, responsiveness and accountability to create a sense of community. Students will become more cognizant of their own learning and have a more intrinsic desire to learn. We also discussed a need to model for our teachers what we hope and expect to see happening in their classrooms. They are "our" students. :)

Assessments as pathways to proficiency __** -- Teacher motivation to follow established curriculum -- Backward design concept, it is like leaving breadcrumbs for them to follow – it leads back to where we want to be -- Helps teachers to have common goals, which leads to common curriculum What is valid? What is reliable? Use rubrics Appropriate Rubrics: • mirror what a novice is supposed to do (level appropriate) • use anchors and models, examples Inappropriate Rubrics • misused in converting it to a grade. • too restrictive -- can’t force a square peg into a round hole. -- self-assessment -- gives feedback to the students themselves helps them see strengths and weaknesses -- Portfolios -- Provides evidence for the teacher and for parents -- share results during Parent Teacher Conferences In one immersion program, during conferencing the immersion teacher asks questions in the target language and the student responds so the parents have “evidence” of all they are learning “If you don’t personalize it to me it doesn’t motivate me.” No one cares what Juan is doing on the beach in Costa Rica. Give them a context for language use. Something they can imagine themselves Portfolios help them see what they can do and gives them a chance to keep working on it.
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 * __ Relevance and Motivation __**