Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills _Macros Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology.
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Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation [email protected] http://www.bobpearlman.org Building Learning Communities Conference July 21, 2004 1 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century? 2 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) Competencies – effective workers can productively use: •Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers; •Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member; •Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information; •Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and •Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology. Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor 3 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) The Foundation – competence requires: •Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts; •Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and •Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, selfmanagement, integrity, and honesty. 4 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 5 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Working in the Real World (i.e. California?) •Projects, projects, projects •Teamwork and collaboration •Self-direction •Interpersonal skills and Networking •Project Management, Leadership •No one asks about your formal education 6 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans http://www.21stcenturyskills.org 7 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 8 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 9 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 10 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 11 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros So what does learning look like where students get 21st Century Knowledge and Skills? 12 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills How do we get them here? 19 1083 _Macros 13 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Strategies that Make a Difference Engagement Hands-on Adult connections Internships Real World immersion 14 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros At the core is a student centered, project and problem based teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and school wide learning outcomes. 15 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros PROJECT BASED LEARNING PBL vs. Doing Projects The Project is the Curriculum Creating a “Need to Know” Teacher Acts as a Coach Focus on Skills (ESLRs) 16 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The Buck Institute for Education Novato, California www.bie.org TRAINING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH 17 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Project Management Teamwork 18 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Oral Communication/Presentation Exhibition Assessment and Feedback 19 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros New Technology High School Napa, California http://www.newtechhigh.org/ Integrating technology into every class Interdisciplinary and project-based Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education Digital Portfolio http://www.newtechfoundation.org/nthlearning.html 20 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES • TECHNOLOGY LITERACY • WRITTEN COMMUNICATION • COLLABORATION • CAREER PREPARATION • CRITICAL THINKING • CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS • ORAL COMMUNICATION • CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS) 21 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros THE BIG PICTURE PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO REPORTING/STUDENT FEEDBACK CURRICULAR UNITS (PBL) EVALUATION RUBRICS LEARNING OUTCOMES 22 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE PBL instruction is not as linear as traditional instruction. How can we organize our project materials for student access, action, selfdirection, and project management? 23 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The Project Briefcase allows teachers to put all project materials in one spot for easy student access and to share with other teachers. 24 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros All items are immediately and dynamically published to the web for access to the curriculum anywhere, anytime. 25 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros They include everything from the entry document that launches the project to the rubrics used to assess the student’s performance. 26 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Teachers can easily lock items from the student view. 27 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Teachers can easily lock The Briefcase holds items from the individual student view. project documents. It can contain text, images, web links, and links to other NTH tools. 28 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE How can we help students stay on task and develop self-direction? 29 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The Course Agenda helps keep complicated projects organized. 30 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Teachers enter activities for each day including links to resources and homework assignments. 31 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Like the other tools, this agenda also publishes to the web for students and parents to view anywhere they have a web connection. 32 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE How can we better hold students accountable for their collaboration skills while working in a group? 33 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros At the end of each project, students evaluate their group members using this collaboration rubric database. 34 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Students submit evaluations using a standardized rubric for the whole school. 35 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Students can view how their peers rated them (although the evaluations are anonymous). Teachers can view, edit, and delete evaluations as necessary. They can also print a report that averages the evaluations for a given project. 36 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The evaluations are accessible on the web. Students have the option to “publish” the evaluations for use as evidence of their collaboration skills. This is the key to allowing students to demonstrate their performance of our learning outcomes. 37 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE How can we capture evidence for skills such as Oral Communication so that students have something to put on their portfolios? 38 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The Presentation Database is a place to record and display evaluations of student performance on presentations. Collecting data on our learning outcomes is critical for the student’s Professional Portfolio. 39 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The evaluations are accessible from the web after the student has marked the evaluation “public”. 40 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE How can we give students and parents clear feedback on student performance that better reflects our authentic assessment practices? 41 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros What do traditional teachers do with a major research paper that has been turned in late? 42 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros ASSESSMENT More than likely, the teacher will take off points for each day the paper is late. 43 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros ASSESSMENT More than likely, the teacher will take off points for each day the paper is late. As soon as the teacher puts that lowered grade in the grade book, we lose important data about the skills and abilities of the student. 44 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 45 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Using the NTH Gradebook, teachers can enter multiple grades for each assignment. They can accurately record that the paper was late without losing data on how well the student understood the content. NTH GRADEBOOK Sample Student Spelling and Grammar Research Paper 38 / / / 50 Content 42 / / / 50 Critical Thinking 18 / / / 20 Work Ethic 50 / 100 / / 46 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 47 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros CHALLENGE How can we give students a way to demonstrate their proficiency on the learning outcomes and then how can we assess them? 48 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 49 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The resulting portfolios are as diverse as the student body but with similar layouts and organization to aid in evaluation by staff and community members. To see student portfolios under construction… Go to http://www.newtechhigh.org and click on “Students and Parents” 50 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros The Professional Portfolio is the capstone of the NTHS Learning System. NTHS’s entire curriculum serves eight overall learning outcomes. In their portfolios, students demonstrate their proficiency in all eight outcomes. 51 TOOLS: DIGITAL PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros These guidelines provide structure around what is otherwise a student-managed collection of projects, evaluations, and documents organized into a web site. 52 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 CURRICULUM LIBRARY DIGITAL PORTFOLIO 1083 _Macros NTHS GRADEBOOK What is the Learning System? The NTH Learning System™ is a set of tools and technologies that support a student-centered, project- and problem-based learning environment. COMMUNICATION TOOLS COLLABORATION EVALUATOR DISCUSSION BULLETIN BOARDS STUDENT DATA COLLECTION 53 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Reinventing the Secondary School Experience Personalization Projects Exhibitions Digital Portfolios Internships Technology 54 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros THE BIG PICTURE PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO REPORTING/STUDENT FEEDBACK CURRICULAR UNITS (PBL) EVALUATION RUBRICS LEARNING OUTCOMES 55 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros 56 Getting and Assessing 21st Century Knowledge and Skills 19 1083 _Macros Bob Pearlman [email protected] http://www.bobpearlman.org "New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks" http://www.bobpearlman.org/Articles/Student_Success.htm “Reinventing the High School Experience“ http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/0204/pearlman.html 57