Entering a new world

       A new place

       Wow,

       A new kind of me

       Stronger, smarter, better

       Live to learn

       Love to learn

       To be a scholar, me.

             --LJA Student

Standard Three: Demonstrating Meaning & Evolving Our Understanding

Enduring Understanding:

The Learning Community…

• promotes assessment for learning beyond assessment of learning.

• applies formative and summative assessments to illuminate learning and teaching.

• promotes authentic assessment that grapples with social problems through social action (content driven).

• identifies creative synergy as an integral part of designing meaningful assessments (e.g. expression, function, and audience).

• presents authentic tasks and routines that mirror the priorities and challenges found in effective and engaging instructional processes (habits of thinking).

• responds and reflects through action research that deepens understanding and generates practical applications and solutions to real world problems.

Essential Questions:

• How is assessment for learning designed differently than assessment of learning?

• How can formative and summative assessments be designed to illuminate learning and teaching?

• How can assessment authentically incorporate social action to address social problems?

• To what extent does creative synergy shape your assessment design?

• How are tasks and routines designed authentically to promote and demonstrate habits of thinking?

• How can action research deepen understanding and generate practical applications and solutions to real world problems? To what extent is the action research process manifested in the assessment design?

• To what extent does the study in question have value beyond the classroom and how will students take this learning and own it beyond the walls of LJA?