Assessing for Learning Workshops

During 2005-06, WIN and the Office of School Quality at the State Department of Education began a collaboration to provide a series of professional development workshops for teachers in underperforming schools.  (See impact data from schools that participated in the 2005-06 workshops.)

WIN and the Office of School Quality have continued this collaboration during the 2006-07.  After analyzing data from the 2005-06 Benchmark Assessments, WIN and the SDE determined that there are six areas of weakness:  main idea, inference, figurative language, stylistic elements, point of view, and vocabulary.  During this year’s series of workshops, WIN consultants have demonstrated instructional strategies to help teachers improve student achievement in these six areas, as well as in related areas of the English language arts standards. 

The year-long professional development series consists of workshops, offered three times each in September, November, January, and March.  Amy Mikell, one of WIN’s consultants, has written reviews for each month’s series.  Frank Baker, one of WIN’s consultants and WIN’s Webmaster, has taken photos during some of these sessions.

September Series:  Figurative Language (Irony) and Inference

• Read Amy’s Review

• See photos from the September 28th workshop held in Columbia.

• See Ellen’s Project Overview PowerPoint Presentation
   

November Series:  Elements of Style, Fluency, and Inference

• Read Amy’s Review

January Series: Point of View, Elements of Style, Inference, and Video Clips

• Read Amy’s Review

• See photos from the January 17^th workshop held in Columbia

• See photos from the January 22nd workshop held in
  Florence

• See photos from the January 31st workshop held in
  Columbia

March Series:  Vocabulary

• Read Amy's Review

This page updated last on :  04/04/2008