EOC Writing Performance Assessments: Developing Writers, Not Prompts
Grades 5-12
Tuesday, 01 October 2019
October 01
October 01, 2019
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As school divisions move toward using a body of evidence to verify EOC writing, teachers and leaders must shift their instructional focus and organization to ensure student success. This workshop will define the modes required in a student’s body of evidence, dissect the new VDOE rubrics and guidelines, explore the instructional design most useful in creating EOC and classroom performance assessments, address the challenges of plagiarism, and offer a wealth of mentor text resources. While choice, voice, and authenticity can create potential hurdles in scoring and storing student products, the new system provides an opportunity for students to write authentically for both audience and purpose. This workshop will give participants practice using the state’s Virginia Quality Criteria Review Tool for Performance Assessments, as well as provide a variety of mini-lessons that can be used to help grow authentic writing. During the workshop there will also be discussion regarding scoring integrity and how the process of collecting and scoring the portfolios of all students’ work can be managed with as much efficiency as possible. The presenter will offer her suggestions based on her own experiences and share her honest responses to the obstacles that their school division faced in their implementation of this process in 2018-2019. The goal of the workshop is for teachers and division leaders to leave with a deeper understanding of Performance Assessments of writing, as well as a wealth of ideas and resources that they can adapt to best suit their own classroom and school division needs.
English Teachers, Curriculum Specialists, Instructional Leaders, and School Administrators
This event will be held at the Holiday Inn, 1901 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, VA 22901.
Registration and a Hot Breakfast Buffet will open at 8 am.
The Conference will be held from 9:00 am – 3:30 pm.
A hot Luncheon Buffet will be served at noon.
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Recertification Certificates (5 points) will be given at the end of the PD Conference.
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