Spring+2016+Agenda

Questioning for Learning || Student-Directed Learning || Questioning for Learning || Thu Apr 7 - Webinar (9:00-12:00 MT, 10:00-1:00 CT) Today's Handouts ||   ||   || ** Partner Meeting Agenda ** **Welcome and Introductions**
 * Dates & Locations**
 * **Date/Location** ||  ||||||= **Partner Meeting**
 * (8:30-12:30)** ||  ||= **Professional Development Modules**
 * (12:30-3:30)** ||
 * Mon Apr 4 - ESU #3 LaVista ||  || Partner Meeting Registration ||   || Request DL Connection ||   || Student-Directed Learning or
 * Tue Apr 5 - ESU #10 Kearney ||  || Partner Meeting Registration ||   || Request DL Connection ||   || Peer and Self-Assessment or
 * Wed Apr 6 - ESU #1 Wakefield ||  || Partner Meeting Registration ||   || Request DL Connection ||   || Peer and Self-Assessment or
 * ESU #13 Partner Meeting Webinar Registration
 * ESU #16
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 * Updates from NWEA**
 * Reports Revamp, Insight Report, ACT Projected Proficiency Report, Skills Navigator® Updates, The Learning Continuum, Nebraska Goal Strand Alignment, Nebraska Linking Study, Accommodations and Accessibility, MAP for Primary Grades iPad Compatibility and more.
 * College and Career Readiness - NWEA MAP College & University Explorer**
 * Experience our new interactive tool for exploring colleges and student goal setting. Teachers, students, and parents can enter a RIT range for reading and math to see the colleges in which the scores are likely to be near the median scores of students admitted there.
 * Key Formative Assessment Practices**
 * We’ll discuss how formative assessment improves student participation, enhances peer-to-peer learning, and helps students develop college and career readiness skills. Users of Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) interim assessments will learn how formative assessment practices are a great way to use MAP data even more effectively! See how you can take your school or district’s formative assessment practice to the next level.

= Professional Development Modules - Session Descriptions = > Explore strategies to engage students as evaluators of what they and others are learning. Collaborate to develop plans that facilitate student ownership of learning goals and processes that lead to success. > The Student-Directed Learning module will help you > Cultivate questioning skills that will help you lead all learners to success. Discover and practice strategies that will increase the value of your classroom discussions and allow you to make timely instructional adjustments based on student responses. > The Questioning for Learning module will help you > Explore strategies to engage students as evaluators of what they and others are learning. Collaborate to develop plans that facilitate student ownership of learning goals and processes that lead to success. > In the Peer and Self-Assessment module you will
 * You may register to attend ONE of the following onsite modules. DL connections are for the Partner Meetings only. **
 * **Student-Directed Learning **
 * understand why it is important to engage students in making choices about their learning
 * identify methods for students to use evidence of learning to monitor their own learning
 * **Questioning for Learning**
 * understand why it is important to plan strategic and clear quality questions
 * identify effective questioning methods and modalities for both teachers and students
 * **Peer and Self-Assessment**
 * connect current practice to research about peer and self-assessment
 * identify priorities when planning to support students in peer and self-assessment
 * examine best practice strategies and tools