- Dr. Gary Ackerman
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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: August 30, 2012 11:20:33 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: Rick Wormeli Coming Back!
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August 30, 2012 - Rick Wormeli is coming back to NELMS
The always popular Rick Wormeli will be back in 2012!
Common Core Common Sense:
Mastery, Assessment, Reporting, and RealityNovember 13 & 14, 2012
UMass Lowell's Inn & Conference Center, Lowell, MA
Some think if we just had clear, rigorous standards, such as the Common Core, all of our students would improve test scores and go to college. This hasn't happened in states who already have such standards, however, so there must be something more to it. Our professional responses to the Common Core and their assessment are key. Teachers and principals need the skills and insights to break down the Common Core, and any other curriculum that comes their way, and identify evidence they will tolerate as indicators of mastery. They need practicality on reporting that evidence of mastery as well as how to handle awkward assessment and grading situations that arise in increasingly diverse classrooms that are all supposed to make the same gains in the course of a single year.
As differentiation expert, Carol Ann Tomlinson, alludes, standards are the ingredients for dinner laid out on the kitchen counter, but they are NOT the meal itself. The meal is made by talented teachers knowing the ingredients well and understanding the academic, dietary needs of their students. These teachers proportion, mix, and cook those ingredients into something meaningful and serve the meal in such a way as students will eat wisely, and maybe, eagerly.
Join us for a provocative two-day seminar that explores these elements of highly effective teaching in the Common Core world. We'll also examine the roles of formative, summative, and common assessments, as well as how to set up a standards-based gradebook and many, "What do teachers do if…?" scenarios that arise when implementing any curriculum with standards-based grading, such as whether or not we can scaffold student learning when using the Common Core, what to do if students achieve the standards earlier than classmates, and what to do if students can express satisfactory evidence of standard but only through alternative assessment. Bring your questions and your wisdom to share – It's going to be a productive two days!
For more information and/or to register please click here.
Save the date for the NELMS 32nd Annual Conference
April 4 & 5, 2013 • RI Convention Center • Providence, RI
Tom Burton - Keynote - Thursday April 4, 2013
Carol Ann Tomlinson - Keynote - Friday April 5, 2013
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