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Professional Learning Circle #4:
This learning circle delves into best practices for fair and equitable assessment in Drama and Dance.
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions
How might we ensure our assessment practices are fair and equitable?
How can we ensure that students have many different kinds of opportunities to make their thinking and learning visible?
What is working well in my practice? What can I improve upon?
How might I incorporate more student self-assessment?
In what ways an success criteria support student success? How can they guide my observations, conversations, and assessment of products?
March 6 Provocations PLC.mp4Click above to view a video of the session.
Topic Overview
Topic Overview
This learning circle examines our assessment and evaluation practices with a view toward increasing fairness, equity, and reliability. Christine provides an overview and Claire dives into specific practices, techniques, strategies and tools.
Resources
Resources
The following resources were discussed and shared during the learning circle. Additional sample assessment tools are also included below:
1. Here is a brief interview about fair and equitable grading practices:
Anti-Racist Grading Starts with You
Sarah McKibben interviews Cornelius Minor, Grading Equity Advocate, ASCD
2. A tool for assessing our practice and its impact on our learners. Learn about PERTS Elevate here.
Distribute this survey anonymously to your students to invite feedback on the quality and equity of the learning conditions in our classrooms. Adapt as you see fit. This survey invites student voice and can guide us in significant ways in the design of our social environment as well as our instruction and assessment practices.
3. Here are lists of sample success criteria for a variety of drama conventions, developed by Claire Holland.
Sample Success Criteria: Drama Conventions
4. Visit the CODE website <code.on.ca> for numerous drama and dance assessment and evaluation tools, which you can used and /or adapted in your teaching.
Navigate to lessons, units and /or assessment for sample tools. Here are a few examples:
Dance- Summative Assessment Rubric
5. A Provocations Journal Recommendation:
(includes the culminating task and assessment criteria)
An Invitation
An Invitation
You are invited to share your knowledge, thoughts, and feelings about assessment in Drama and Dance with the Provocations community:
Share a reflection based on the guiding questions above, or share an effective assessment tool that you use in your teaching. Have you administered the student survey shared in the Resource List above? If so, what did you learn from your students that will inform your practice moving forward? Send a reflection or response to provocationjournal@gmail.com.
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