MCIEA Institute Day 3 Opener by Sara Barney

2023-11-06 13:58:15 UTC

Refining the task so it’s not more than what we need to show mastery of the standard! Taking out the extra!

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Keeping it short and sweet and to the point!

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My team wrote brand new tasks and introduced tasks to new teachers who are ready to try out QPAs

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Getting some ideas for bringing our third task to life!

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There are a lot of moving parts/things to keep track of

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Brainstorming with colleagues of different subjects was helpful for different ideas and cross-curricular planning

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Using rubric to help refine task into something real and meaningful

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Feeling more confident in creating a rubric

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To get our new tasks in the bank, have teachers actively using them

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Lack of examples within content area make it harder to visualize how this looks for my content area

Getting feedback on my task and doing a tuning protocol. Showing students a preview of the task and having them get excited!

2023-11-06 14:00:33 UTC

Love planning my task for my younger students. It allowed me to think creatively on how to challenge all students

kcerasale_messina — 2023-11-06 14:00:34 UTC

Pacing

kcerasale_messina — 2023-11-06 14:00:39 UTC

Finding the time to work on the task while also adapting a new curriculum and doing my CAGS

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Revising existing tasks and getting started on developing new ones

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Creating my rubric; prepping to share with collegues

kcerasale_messina — 2023-11-06 14:01:08 UTC

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Working together productively with the team from my district

Worked with the math and science district coordinator to plan out a difficult task

amiller839 — 2023-11-06 14:01:19 UTC

Always looking for ways to improve on student tasks!

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Finding the time to work with my team on the tasks when I’m an interventionist.

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Figuring out which tasks would work the best to display the skills and standards we are looking for

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Figure out how to implement what I ahve before anymore changes are made

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Creating accommodations that are equitable to my students on IEPs and ELLs

More and better collaboration with staff.

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I have been successful in changing my mindset to be more focused on the task and targeting higher level DOKs.

Time to plan and implement tasks and keeping the tasks manageable

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Time.

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Finding time to work on the tasks and planning time to collaborate with our team while getting coverage for our class.

To finalize my task today and have it ready to roll with kids. That way next meeting I can analyze my results and tune further. Another goal is to meet with grade level teams to scale this task up and down so all grades can utilize a version of it.

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One success I have had is refining the task I created last year. I knew there were things that didn’t work as well as I wanted, but I was able to fix those

2023-11-06 14:02:09 UTC

I changed my task again because it no longer worked with the unit I ahd it placed in.

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Designing something good.

Create a rubric, small group roles, and checklist

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To finish a task or two that I can use this year.

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I have a new idea.

I have shared it with some students that really enjoy the task and have given positive and specific feedback.

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Finding the time to meet vertically and share out or revise with different grade levels.

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We ended the August institute days with solid drafts of each task.

Refine and implement new task

2023-11-06 14:02:44 UTC

Brainstorming a fun assessment that has buy in from all of our colleagues - looking forward to using it in the spring!

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The kids liked the resources (video clips, readings) that I selected. They found them culturally relevant to their lives and interesting.

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Time- Lots of new things to do this year in my classroom.

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I "piloted" the activity with my fourth graders and it was received with great enthusiasm.

collaboration among different educators

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Our team came together to look at how we can apply the PBA template for use with professional development

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Shared this task with my colleague and co-teachers and created excitement around it

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We were able to write a new task and make some changes to past tasks.

To make the Task Bank a rich resource.

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Time to meet with grade level teachers to "refine" task.

Some students have not taken advantage of the benefits and still want to just check of the boxes and be done with it.

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Gaining momentum/excitement for these tasks and for other teachers to come aboard.

Everyone on the team is on the same page!

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Just tricky to find time for our team to come together

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Thinking about being able to continuously reach new staff members

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I think I overplanned or took too long.

It was helpful to review the task with others, to both help add ideas and modify the task to better fit my students and make the task successful.

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making it meaningful and authentic

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Keeping the tasks short and manageable for students.

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We have not had time to develop rubrics yet for any of the tasks.

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To figure out how we will assess and grade the tasks. I want to feel confident in what we need to get done between now and the next institute

Put our PBA into action!

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Want to better understand how to create more accurate rubrics

Time and ensuring that everything is accessible for my multi-lingual students

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Making sure we align with goals/standards

Collaboration among educators to create a PBA.

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As an EL teacher, I have to ensure my tasks align with a number of standards and expectations, so balancing student choice and differentiation with language expectations (for example, students cannot write a task that is assessing speaking skills, so how do I engage students who do not like to speak)

Making sure that the assignment is clear and that students will have had enough time to practice before the assessment is given.

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Fixing our rubrics and becoming familiar with the portfolio.

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Leave today with solid rubrics for each of our tasks.

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Find resources more efficiently

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Continuing to tune my task and writing a rubric

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Leaving today with a solidly developed task ready for field testing.

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To show how much better performance tasks are at engaging students so that other teachers want to do them

Identifying standards for the rubric.

2023-11-06 14:04:22 UTC

The students were more engaged, they enjoyed the activity and learned a lot from it

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For all students to see the learning and engagement benefits and not just do it because it is an assignment for a grade.

2023-11-06 14:04:35 UTC

This task will come later in the school year so I have not been able to try it with my students yet.

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making sure there's time to execute it in a meaningful way

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making sure there is enough time in the curriculum

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creating the rubric

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Using tasks aligned to grade level standards to help kids pass the Mcas

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Time

Complete a rubric that will help the task go smoothly for both teachers and students!

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Have at least one task per content area

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Having a task ready to go!

everyone implements a task by december

2023-11-06 14:14:06 UTC