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Georgia State University
PO Box 3977
Atlanta, GA 30302-3977
Phone: 404-413-8256

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Description:	WHO Kay Burke WHAT Expert Leaders Series- TWO-DAY SESSION TITLE Authentic, Formative Assessment: How To Target and Correlate to Georgia Performance Standards (for students) DATE/TIME January 27-28, 2010, 8:00 am - 3:00 pm LOCATION Clayton County Schools Professional Development Center, 1087 Battle Creek Road, Jonesboro, GA 30236 PRESENTER Dr. Burke is an international consultant who works with educators to implement standards- based assessments. She has served as a classroom teacher, department chairperson, school administrator, and university instructor For the past 18 years, Kay has facilitated workshops and presented at state conferences such as GNSDC, GASCD, PAGE, and national conferences such as ASCD, NSDC, NMSA, NAESP, and NASSP. She has written 16 books and training manuals about performance assessment, student and professional portfolios, and classroom management. Her latest book published by Corwin Press is How to Assess Authentic Learning, 5th ed. and her latest book published by Solution Tree Press is Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative TOPIC Formative Assessment Formative assessment strategies like performance tasks, checklists, rubrics, and portfolios address the Georgia Performance Standards, target important curriculum goals, and motivate students to learn. This workshop will help school leaders and teacher teams implement a process to target key standards and develop teacher checklists to guide instruction. Participants will also create engaging performance tasks to differentiate instruction, develop vocabulary lists correlated to the GPS, design criteria checklists to help students assess their own work, and create rubrics to assess the quality of the students’ work. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this TWO-DAY WORKSHIP, participants will learn how to: * Target key standards and curriculum goals * Create teacher checklists using the elements from the standards to guide instruction; * Develop vocabulary lists with definitions and examples; * Create a performance task scenario to motivate students to learn; * Develop group and individual student checklists correlated to the standards to provide feedback; * Extend the checklists into analytical rubrics that provide descriptors of quality; Share strategies to examine student work; Develop an action plan to share the assessment process with other teachers BOOK: How To Assess Authentic Learning, 5th ed. from Corwin Press, fall 2009, will be issued to each participant as an integral part of the workshop. We have raiseed the tuition to cover the cost of the book. NOTE This workshop is particularly helpful to school teams. FOR PRINCIPAL CENTER MEMBERS, every 5th person is FREE for each team of 4 registered participants from the same school or Associate Member group.