Bonnie Campbell Hill

DAY ONE:
CLASSROOM BASED ASSESSMENT: PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER (AND STAYING SANE)

How can assessment become manageable? The focus will be on practical ideas that help weave
instruction and assessment together. Bonnie Campbell Hill will provide forms and ideas for organizing teacher's notebooks, anecdotal notes, rubrics, and other ways to assess reading and writing development in the elementary classroom. She will show how many teachers connect their teaching and assessment to standards and student portfolios. The emphasis is on practical ideas that have proven successful in elementary classrooms.

Participants will receive an extensive packet of assessment forms that will enable you to immediately
use these ideas in your classroom.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

 strengthen your assessment and evaluation program by articulating goals
 connect your assessment to research and standards
 create a manageable outline for collecting assessment information
 develop a systematic method for taking anecdotal notes
 choose from a menu of specific classroom based assessment ideas
 encourage self-reflection and goal-setting with students
 inform parents about your assessment program


DAY TWO:
DEVELOPMENTAL CONTINUUMS: PROVIDING A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR INSTRUCTION, ASSESSMENT
AND REPORTING

“So how’s my child really doing?” This is the question parents often ask teachers. Traditional report
cards and letter grades often don’t provide a clear picture of student learning. Bonnie Campbell Hill will present ideas about how developmental continuums can help parents, teachers and students document literacy growth. Developmental continuums provide the link between instruction, assessment, standards, student portfolios and student-led conferences. Bonnie will show examples of developmental reading and writing continuums and how they also connect to report cards. She will share supplementary materials that help support the continuums and discuss how continuums are being used around the world.



In this session, you will learn how to:

 articulate a rationale for the use of developmental continuums
 explore ways in which continuums are used in various international schools
 examine how continuums connect to assessment and standards
 encourage self-reflection and goal-setting through the use of continuums
 develop report cards that incorporate developmental continuums and standards
 discuss ways to inform parents about student growth using continuums, portfolios, and student-led conferences and parent education
 create a manageable plan for implementing developmental continuums