{"id":2613,"date":"2013-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/question-making\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:49:22","slug":"question-making","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/question-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Question Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2312\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-13-at-2.20.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2312 \" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-13 at 2.20.03 PM\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-13-at-2.20.03-PM-300x279-300x279.png\" width=\"180\" height=\"167\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">from Making Mastery Work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is something a bit magical about the transformation from time-based\/A-F structures to competency-based education.\u00a0 Over and over again students, teachers, parents and administrators discover and rediscover the magic of learning.<\/p>\n<p>All of it starts with creating powerful questions. We all know that our learning is shaped by how we construct questions. In fact QED Foundation includes \u201cQuestion Making\u201d within their <a href=\"http:\/\/mc2paedia.wikispaces.com\/habits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curiosity and Wonder rubric<\/a>, one of their essential habits of learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.competencyworks.org\/resources\/making-mastery-work\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Making Mastery Work: A Close-Up View of Competency Education<\/em><\/a> helps us understand the questions behind competency-based schools. The authors capture the questions the ten schools use to drive their decision-making as well as the variety of design decisions that each school makes.\u00a0 For example, the questions below guide the overall design of schools, focusing on the mastery and assessment system.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0What are the learning targets or competencies that best represent the skills and knowledge students are expected to master?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0What is the relationship between the program or school\u2019s learning targets, the Common Core State Standards, and other relevant standards?<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How, and how often, will student progress toward learning targets be assessed?\u00a0 What kinds of interim benchmarks and formative assessments will be needed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Proficiency-based grading sounds like you could walk in as a ninth grader and do twelfth grade work and be done. We have had to struggle with what consistency looks like in the framework: how many times do students need to meet the standard, how many times do they need to show that they have mastered content? We\u2019ve worked on trying to figure out what the ladder looks like to being college-ready. -Kippy Smith, Expeditionary Learning Coach at Casco Bay High School, From Making Mastery Work<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How will students demonstrate mastery?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How will teachers and students track progress? What kinds of learning management systems, adapted grade-books, and student-managed tracking\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tools will be needed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How will the program grade and award credit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0How can the system, once developed, be clearly communicated to students, families and other stakeholders?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The authors are clear \u2013 the schools use similar questions but it\u2019s not always the same sequence. For example, I\u2019ve learned from site visits that in many districts, the communication process starts well before the other questions so it is about creating a shared vision as well as communications or marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Are there other questions that you have found that you have to be able to answer as part of the quest for innovating competency education?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mapsvg_location":""},"legacy_category":[],"issue":[368,395],"location":[94],"class_list":["post-2613","cw_post","type-cw_post","status-publish","hentry","issue-issues-in-practice","issue-create-balanced-systems-of-assessments","location-maine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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