Date/Time: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Authentic Approaches for Deeper Learning
(A Community of Practice)
Do you worry that students aren’t deeply engaged in learning in your class? Do you worry about students cheating or relying too much on AI for assignments and assessments? Are your students struggling to demonstrate concept mastery outside of the traditional true-false and multiple-choice questions? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you would benefit from learning more about authentic assessment.
“Authentic tasks simulate adult tasks; they give students worthy work and they produce useful feedback so that students can progressively improve their understanding and performance, that is, their application of subject-matter content.” (Grant Wiggins, 1998).
Join us in this community of practice and learn how to increase engagement, comprehension, and satisfaction through designing authentic assessment for your students.
Community of Practice Sessions:
- Session 1: February 5 (Past Event) – Designing and Supporting Students with Authentic Assessments
- Session 2: March 5 (Past Event) – Inviting Students into Learning
- Session 3: April 2 (12:00-1:30pm) – Designing Purposely Scaffolded Assessments
- Session 4: May 7 (12:00-1:30pm) – Don’t Forget Self-Assessment and Metacognition
Designing Purposely Scaffolded Assessments
(Session 3)
Facilitators: Sonya Reichel (Math, CTL), Lori Hokerson (Psychology, UDL), Victor Zarate (Physics, CTL)
Welcome to the third of four sessions in our Rethinking Assessment: Authentic Approaches for Deeper Learning Community of Practice, a productive space for you to test out ideas, bring insights, and collaborate with like minded colleagues in a supportive community. You are welcome to join this session whether or not you attended the first sessions.
Our session will begin by reviewing the authentic assessments in development for those who attended the last session, discussing strengths and struggles, and analyzing those changes from multiple perspectives. Then we are ready to get practical! We will spend time discussing different assessment types, including formative and summative, their purposes and value, and designing them with authentic assessment in mind. By the end of the session you will acquire concrete strategies to transform your assessment into something that energizes both you and your students, while reimagining your chosen assessment with equity and authenticity at its core – all supported by Universal Design for Learning (UDL)!
This activity meets State PD Guidelines A, B, & C; ARC Strategic Goal 1 Students First and Goal 3 Exemplary Teaching, Learning, and Working Environment; ARC Professional Development Competencies: Equity-minded Service, Effective Communication, and Technology Proficiency.
Online Meeting Information
These sessions are scheduled in Zoom; here is a link to join this Zoom Community of Practice.
- Meeting ID: 814 4558 2569
Registration
This is a 4-part series and for those of you who choose to commit to joining this community of practice, you will get the opportunity to pick an existing assessment or create a new one to employ the principles of authentic assessment. The goal is to make the focus of each session a very hands-on experience with your colleagues.
- If you can’t commit to all four sessions right now, our door is still open for anyone!
Please register for each session event that you are interested in attending.
Registration
Registration is closed for this event.