Session 3, Part 4: Feedback Needs a Plan

Create Your Ideal Curriculum, Session 3: Design an Authentic Assessment Process

Let’s take a moment to recall all that we have covered up to this point:

• We revisited our reasons for getting into education and remembered our “why”.

• We recognized that expertise is more than just knowledge, and that students do not get the opportunity to engage in deep learning as much as they should.

• We previewed a leaner and more responsive unit template that guides us to pare down all of the resources and standards.

• We analyzed a commercially-produced curriculum resource with a critical eye.

• We embraced the challenge of teaching for success today and for an unknown tomorrow.

• We developed criteria for what is worth learning, or is “lifeworthy”.

• We positioned standards in their more proper place as we develop curriculum.

• We created a pathway toward student success.

• We found a better balance between clarity and autonomy in our assessment process.

• We discovered that the best assessment can offer teachable moments for the students and the teacher.

• We differentiated between two curriculum approac…