Why Include Parents in Looking at Student Work

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Why Include Parents in Looking at Student Work?
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Goals

• For parents to become familiar with some of the
  ways schools assess student work in relation to
  standards.
• To give parents the experience of using a formal
  protocol and rubrics to look at student work and
  to consider how their input in a similar process
  might take place in school.
• To offer strategies for looking at and discussing
  student work at home.

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What Tools Do We Need to Look At Student Work?

• Standards State and National
• Rubrics
• Anchor Papers
• Student Work
• Protocols

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Lets Take a Look at the Tools

• Rubrics are guides containing specific measures
  to determine if the standards or grade level
  expectations have been accomplished and at what
  level of completion.
• Anchor papers are sets of student work that have
  been scored using specific guidelines such as
  standards and grade level expectations to
  determine what is above average, average and
  below average work.
• Student work is the actual product/sample
  provided by students to be examined and scored.
  The work might be a specific assignment, a
  project, or portfolio of work.
• Protocols are systematic ways for reviewers to
  analyze and discuss student work and give their
  conclusions or suggestions for next steps.

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Why Include Parents In Looking At Student Work?

• To help parents know more about and understand
  how schools assess their childrens learning.
• For students to recognize their parents concern
  and interest in their students success in
  school.
• To provide an opportunity for parents to listen
  to their children and to see them in a positive
  light.
• To provide a venue for significant conversation
  between parents and students, and parents and
  teachers about student academic achievement.