March 17, 2023: Designing Authentic Performance Tasks
Designing Authentic Performance Tasks (click on the title to get today's slides) This three-hour session explores strategies for designing and analyzing deep, engaging, authentic performance-based tasks that are both meaningful and rigorous for students. We will begin by unpacking a variety of sample tasks to answer the questions: What is this task asking students to know? What skills must the students possess in order to carry out the task? Does the task measure what the teacher wants to measure? We will explore strategies for designing ongoing mini-tasks that develop the skills, knowledge, and understandings required for the larger, more rigorous tasks that require the transfer of knowledge/skills to unfamiliar (and often “messy”) contexts. Teachers will receive a toolkit of templates and materials to assist in designing and assessing their own tasks and will have time to develop an authentic performance-based task. Teachers should come to the session with materi...