The expression “many hands make light work” is true in many contexts: in school, work, and everyday life. Many skills – such as commitment, communication, sharing, controlling conflict, and encouragement – are necessary to become an effective team player. Use this LAP to teach your students about different types of teams, why teams are important, how teams are beneficial, and the ways that teamwork leads to success. LAP modules are comprehensive instructional packages that include all elements of a performance-oriented lesson plan. This LAP includes a student narrative that includes information about participating as a team member, a (So What?) discussion of why it's important to learn, and a short (Gray Zone) case addressing ethical issues. The instructor section features a comprehensive discussion guide, complete learning guide (short answer) and post-tests (multiple-choice) with descriptive keys, student activities, and more.

Each and every Friday my students take part in completing a typing assessment. The assessment consist of 3 (1) minute timings. This first week is to simply set a baseline. Keyboard strategies are shared throughout the quarter to help teach the correct key placement to ensure better typing speeds. IT1.a.4.m: Demonstrate the touch method of keyboarding on an alphanumeric keyboard at acceptable speed and accuracy levels. (Recommended minimum: 5 wpm x grade level).

This document is a unit assessment on reasoning with equations and inequalities, graphing and solving inequalities, and solving systems of linear equations and inequalities. Items for this assessment were pulled or modified from materials from Engage NY and Illustrative Mathematics.

The Using Assessment Dashboards presentation is a guide to interacting with various dashboards and useful tools to analyze assessment data within WISEdash for Districts.

Use the clickers to generate data for demand and supply curves by asking students to give numerical values for their maximum willingness to pay for something and their minimum willingness to accept for something. Use the data generated to graph both the demand and supply curves.

In this article, Tom Vander Ark presents a definition of performance assessment, criteria for high quality performance assessment, and examples of different types of performance assessments. He then discusses reasons for using performance assessments (including in personalized learning), and ways to track results.

Students and community residents of four remote Alaskan villages measure environmental data to identify their climate vulnerabilities.