Template+-+Roles+and+Responsibilities

﻿﻿Updated on September 13, 2010


 * Roles and Responsibilities **

Template for Formative and Interim Assessment Subcommittee Recommendations

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FORMATIVE


 * Entity or individual || Roles and Responsibilities (FORMATIVE) ||
 * Colorado Department of Education || Provide exemplars of classroom tools to support formative assessment/instruction.

Provide access to field based models of formative assessment/instruction that illustrate best practices.

Provide continual professional development  for teachers, districts and school leadership related to formative assessment / instruction.

Provide funding, mentoring and capacity building for formative assessment/instruction.

Create consortia to develop learning progressions and aligned formative tools.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Develop tools for districts to effectively implement and monitor formative assessment/instruction. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Community (Educational Partners) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide authentic performance tasks

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Collaborate with educators content specific formative assessment professional development

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Volunteers or tutors

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Partnerships ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Colorado Department of Higher Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Professional Development opportunities or framework exemplars

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Include formative assessment as part of pre-service teacher preparation and in-service professional development offerings. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide best practice examples

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Content area expertise (i.e. Math for M.S. teacher)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Vision for formative assessment practice in institutions of higher education ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">School Districts/ BOCES || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bring teachers together to develop learning progressions and associated formative tools

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Evaluate current grading practices and policies to align with formative asessments/instruction/practices so they no longer serve as barriers

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide professional development and resources on formative assessment/instruction

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support teachers in using formative assessment information to adjust instruction

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide on-going professional development

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Create structures to allow peer observations and collaboration ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Institutes of Higher Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Include formative assessment as part of pre-service teacher preparation and in-service professional development offerings.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Offer ongoing PD for new and veteran teachers, principals and other instructional leaders

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Develop understanding of learning progressions and how they reflect standards and apply to formative assessment/instruction

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Model formative assessment practices in teacher prep courses, internships and all courses

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Include formative assessment as requirement for licensure ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Schools || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support teacher involvement in the development of learning progressions and aligned formative tools

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide a structure that supports professional development on formative assessment practices

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide instructional leadership and vision that supports effective formative assessments

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facilitate horizontal and vertical collaboration regarding formative assessment/instruction ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gather and interpret information about learning on a daily basis and use to inform and adjust instruction

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Differentiate Instruction based on information about student learning

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Clarify the learning targets, success criteria and progression of learning for students, using descriptors, examples/exemplars, and engaging students in interacting with information about the targets for their learning.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Engage students in self assessment, peer assessment, based on clearly defined learning targets,and monitoring their learning over time <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide formative feedback <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Collect, analyze and interpret data from various sources about student learning

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Engage in classroom level dialogue/ questioning that gathers information about student understanding and probes thinking and misconceptions

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Personal accountability for developing best use and practice for assessment

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Help students understand results ||  ||   ||


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parents || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide support while being informed and willing to collaborate with teachers

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Awareness

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Identify strengths and weakness of child to help teacher learn about how to motivate the child

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support importance ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use information about learning to self assess progress toward clearly defined learning targets

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Engage and are reflective of the learning by tracking progress of learning over time and setting personal goals toward learning targets

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Use formative feedback to improve work ||

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">INTERIM


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Entity or individual || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Roles and Responsibilities (INTERIM) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Colorado Department of Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Resources for interim assessments and integrated/muiltidisciplinary tasks and performance events

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide professional development on the effective use of interim assessment <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Share the costs with districts or help districts link to other funding resources <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Streamline administrative requirements, timelines, recording accommodations, etc. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Establish consortia and support cross-district conversations

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Facilitate cross-district purchasing of interim assessment and related data tools ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Community (School Educational Partners) || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide internships and support program development

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Funding ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Colorado Department of Higher Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reliability and validity as reviewers of IHE programs ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">School Districts/ BOCES || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Administer and provide reports of results to local stakeholders

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Analyze and aggregate data to identify, programmatic weaknesses, disaggregated groups to target <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Give time and priority to data analysis at PLC’s

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Allow for flexibility in pacing <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Honor recommendations for instructional changes

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide PD on instructional uses and follow-up support <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide data management tools

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide equal access to interim assessment tools to all content areas ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Institutes of Higher Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Educate new teachers on purposes, use and creation

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Data interpretation and action planning <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Utilize interim assessment results in teacher preparation

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Offer ongoing PD for new and veteran teachers, principals and other instructional leaders <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Professional Development opportunities and framework (teacher induction, for example)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Pre-service and in-service, too include data analysis ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Schools || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Support Professional collaborations to evaluate and use results

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Provide supports and professional development for effective use of interim assessments <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Analyze results to improve programmatic issues and identify students who need additional assistance ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teachers || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Administer assessment and analyze data

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Contribute to the development

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Calibrate instruction collaboratively with colleagues

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Adjust instruction as determined by results

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Conversations at teacher-building-district level to improve results

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Identify curricular/programmatic strengths and weaknesses

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Group/regroup students for interventions

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Share data with students

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Report data based on school/district protocols ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Parents |||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">View/understand results

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Stay informed and supportive ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students |||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hold self accountable for demonstrating knowledge

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Monitor progress of their learning over time in reference to learning targets

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Set personal learning goals ||

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