7:30-8:00     Meet, greet and seat

8:00-8:10     Goals:

§  Teachers will learn strategies to prepare students for the Biology EOC so that all students have the opportunity to be successful.

§  Teachers will understand the history and direction of high stakes assessments in science.

§  Teachers will identify ALL resources that are available to support Biology EOC prep through assessment, instruction and curriculum.

§  Teams of teachers will begin to prepare tools to use in the classroom, which will provide students with multiple opportunities to practice.

§  Teachers will identify the strengths and limitations of existing data tools that can provide information about student learning.

8:10- 8:40    Entry Task

·         What currently drives decision making about science instruction in the Seattle Schools?  What is your evidence? 

·         What currently drives your decisions around classroom instruction?  Why? 

8:40–10:00  Diving in to the release items

• EOC Biology 2012-13  Item Specs 
• Item Spec Cards I, Item Spec Card II
• EOC 2013 Release Items, Student Pages
• EOC 2012 Release Items, Student Pages

10:00–10:15            Break

10:15–10:35            Nuts and Bolts of EOC        

10:35-11:00             Resource Dive Jigsaw

• Design Process Templates - ITEEA and PLTW
• OSPI
• Wiki
• Moodle
• Student Friendly Rubrics - 
• Self-Assessment Semester 1
• Self-Assessment Semester 2
• Inquiry Conclusion
• Inquiry Field Study
• Inquiry New Procedure
• Teaching Resources - 
• Ecology ppt
• Bio EOC FAQ
• Biology Boot Camp I
• Biology Boot Camp II
• CER Rubric
• EOC Test Allocation
• Reliability & Validity  
• EOC Study Guides - 
• SPS
• Glacier Peak , Glacier Peak KEY
• Templates and Tools
• Criteria and Contraints
• Conclusion
• New Field Study
• New Procedure
• Research and Explore
• Redesign
• Testing Solution 

11:00–11:30  SPS Data Share / Reflection

11:30–12:00 

EOC Biology Lessons Learned 2012 

Lesson Learned:  OSPI Information on last year’s test as a table jigsaw.

12:00–12:30  Lunch

12:30–1:15  Templates and Sample Scenarios - EOC (see above for resrouces)

1:15–3:00     Practice writing EOC-type assessments

3:00–3:15     Inventory

                        Next Steps

3:15-3:30     Survey as your reflection