Convening Six Content
~ Cohort ONE - September 2023 ~
Evidence of Learning and Feedback
Personalized Learning requires practices that accelerate student growth through evidence of learning and feedback, such as mastery and competency-based assessment strategies. This allows educations to meet learners where they are, help them overcome obstacles to learning, provide them with multiple ways to show what they know and measure and promote growth. Learnings understand assessment criteria and play an active role in the iterative process of reflecting on and improving their work.
Indicators of personalized Evidence of Learning and Feedback include:
5.1 Mastery learning or competency-based learning is practiced.
5.2 Learners have opportunities to critique and revise their work to demonstrate master of targeted competencies.
5.3 Learners are assessed through a variety of ongoing and adaptable assessment techniques (e.g., performance-based, choice boards, open-eneded problem and project-based learning, etc.) to provide data to drive learning experiences. Educators and learners co-analyze this data to inform the next steps in the learning journey.
5.4 Learners receive feedback from the learning community (e.g.,teachers, peers, family, business and industry partners, etc.) so they can understand their current progress, recognize that mistakes are opportunities to learn and develop a plan for moving forward.
5.5 Learners regularly self-assess as an embedded part of the learning process. They accurately reflect on and communicate their progress and achievement to relevant stakeholders.
Learning Targets
Engage in cross-cohort collaboration as part of the OH Personalized Learning Network
Collaborate in my school design team to develop a commitment aligned to the Evidence of Learning & Feedback Component of the Ohio Personalized Learning Framework.
Understand strategies for developing assessment-capable learners.
Analyze the learner-centered assessment practices that build learner agency.
Pre-Work
We are so excited to see everyone at convening six! Prior to the convening please complete the convening six pre-work that you can find HERE. We anticipate the pre-work taking 20-35 minutes.
Choice Sessions
Participants will engage in an interactive session to learn strategies to cultivate learner agency and metacognition through self assessment, feedback, and reflection by exploring.
Build understanding by exploring core principles and working through self-selected pathways towards generating and integrating meaningful learner-centered assessments.
Participants will explore resources and scenarios that will help them analyze common contemporary grading practices while shaping an equitable grading philosophy that supports mastery learning. They will reevaluate how they assign grades in their own classrooms going forward.
Designed for school/district leaders and instructional coaches, this session focuses on leadership strategies to create a shared vision and culture for implementation, build the capacity of staff, deepen personalized learning instructional practice, and manage organizational structures and resources to support evidence of learning and feedback.
Additional Resources
Will be added during the convening.
Next Steps
Schedule meeting cadence as a design team
- Learn and Practice your Evidence of Learning & Feedback
commitment for the next 30 days - Meet with your design team and Personalized Learning Specialist at the end of the 30 days to Reflect and Revise
- Share your learning via the evidence slide deck