OSPI Social Studies Coming

Caleb from OSPI Classroom Based Assessments

• Program Supervisor for SS and International Education and World Languages. Teacher 9 years NY. Standardized, high stake exam didn't like.


CLASSROOM BASED ASSESSMENTS

• one Classroom-based Assessment per course 3rd grade-high school

• would like districts to adopt the state scope and sequence and/since there is a Classroom Based Assessment for each course

• NY the teachers grade their own high stakes assessments and use sampling to prove

• trying to get 55 non-profit organizations to connect to the CBAs and the state scope and sequence

• OSPI social studies looking to make the social studies programs a more important, funded part of the state accountability system

• civics has strong support among legislators and may be a focus as this moves ahead

• 100 Question Citizenship Test

• Priority is funding for teacher inservice to learn to score the classroom assessments, connect to classroom curriculum... (2 days of work during the summer to work on this project)


Random Notes

* insourcing like UPS will come to schools (Ryan creating classroom assessments)

• typing as a basic skill

• opportunities to use the "project approach" in SS that is used in mathematics

• if you want a math person hire an Asian student; a organized person a European student; a problem solver with multiple solutions an American...based on the weakness of our system where the learning is not sequential and thoroughly organized