{"data":{"ID":337,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1383259562,"CreatorID":2244,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"College & Career Ready?  What does this really mean and look like?","Handle":"College-Career_Ready-What_does_this_really_mean_and_look_like","ShortDescription":"This conversation will about sharing a performance task based approach to teaching, learning, and assessing. Skills like effective communication, problem solving, analysis, and reasoning are the real characteristics of being prepared for life, work, and academic pursuits.  We'll see what it takes to develop these skills in our classrooms.","Description":"For the past 10 years the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) has been heavily invested in the schooling (K-12 and higher education) to working space.  Our work includes 10 years at the college level with our Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA+), an assessment of higher order critical thinking skills, and 7 years with high school members of the College and Work Readiness Assessment CWRA+) which assesses the same skills.  The assessments take a performance task and constructed response approach to measuring these skills.  \r\nThe roles, responsibilities, and activities undertaken in college, in the world of work, and life are simply not practiced in many classrooms.  We\u2019ll spend a few minutes discussing what preparation for college and life really looks like.  Our goal is to demonstrate how effective performance tasks in the classroom can be a bridge to inquiry and a means to foster critical thinking with our students. We will role play, form groups to build model performance task frameworks where skills like effective writing, problem solving & analysis, quantitative & scientific reasoning, critical reading & evaluation, and critiquing an argument may be assessed.","Link":["http:\/\/cae.org","https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1gL1OR58fc9ds9McjLux9BnRbYWSn_DqimeqIpMjd9Kk\/edit"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"We\u2019ll use a modified version of the 4a text protocol.\r\nWe\u2019ll reads a selected passage from Tony Wagner\u2019s The Global Achievement Gap book on testing and college readiness (chapter 3) text silently, and then respond to the prompts:\r\n\r\n\u2022 What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?\r\n\u2022 What do you Agree with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What do you want to Argue with in the text?\r\n\u2022 What parts of the text do you want to Aspire to?\r\nIn a round, each person will identify one of the A\u2019s, citing the text, and allowing for follow up questions and comments.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll end the round with an open question, like the one below.\r\n\r\nInitial discussion of the problem \u2013 too much classroom is time taken up preparing students for standardized tests that can be considered irrelevant when preparing students for future academic pursuits, the new world of work, and engaged citizenry.  Can we align classroom routines with assessment better? \r\n\r\nSession ends with shared Aspire statement, and commitment to collaborate on development of performance tasks developed by teams at participant schools.  We will facilitate this collaboration in late March.","Presenter":["Lee Finkelstein"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Council for Aid to Education","PAECT"],"PresenterEmail":["lfinkelstein@cae.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":28,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":2244,"AdditionalComments":"We will poll Educon attendees who may be members of current or past cwra's to learn if they'd be interested in co-facilitating with us.\r\nRegards, \r\nLee","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}