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=HPHS Course Team Resources:= The documents on this page will assist Course Teams in holding collaborative and productive meetings. toc

HPHS Course Team Documents:

 * Course Team Structure & Responsibilites--**This important document outlines the structure and the specific responsibilites of HPHS Course Teams.


 * Course Team Norm Building Worksheet--**Use this document to guide your Course Team through the development of norms for your work.


 * Course Team Meeting Log**--Use this document is used to capture the work of Course Team meetings.


 * HPHS Collaboration Calendar**--Official 2013-14 Collaboration Calendar.


 * The Common Formative Assessment Cycle--**This document illustrates the process course teams move through as they participate in the common formative assessment cycle.


 * Sample of 1st Quarter Common Formative Assessment Cycle -** This document offers a model of how a course team could structure a CFA cycle.

space.template.Course Team Goal Setting Worksheet
 * Course Team Goal Setting Worksheet**--Use this document to set immediate & short-range goals for your Course Team work.


 * Course Team Mid-Year Review Template--**Use this document to help review 1st semester & plan your 2nd semester course team work.

Assessment Activities for Course Teams:
The following activities have been created by Steve & Jan Chappius and Rick Stiggins to help course teams develop high-quality classroom assessments. Each of these activities may be used for a Course Team meeting.


 * Keys to Quality Assessment Materials--**information about how to design high quality assessments.


 * Formative Assesment Research Summary**--brief synthesis of formative assessment research.


 * Analyzing Assessments for Clear Targets**--this activity enables teams to analyze an assessment to determine the importance of clear targets to quality assessment and to help participants discover the importantce of the test plan.


 * Creating Sound Assessments that Promote Student Ownership of Learning--**this activity helps teams learn how sound assessment design can create a high degree of student ownership for their own learning.

Course Team Self-Assessment
This assessment will help you identify where your Course Team is in its development and it will assist you in setting goals for future work. [|Course Team Self-Assessment]

Readings For Course Teams
These readings may assist a course team in developing a shared understanding of elements of course team work. __Transformative Assessement__ (2008) by W. James Popham. Chapter 1 of this book does an excellent job of defining what formative assessment is (and isn't) and provides a basic overview of why formative assessment is so critical for teachers to utilize to increase student achievement.

__Learning by Doing__ (2006) by DuFour, DuFour, Eaker & Many. Chapter 3 of this book focuses on the importance of clear targets and common formative assessments. A concise overview of the rationale behind a course team needing to ask questions of, "What do we want students to know & be able to do?" and, "How do we know if the students have learned it?"

__Common Formative Assessments (2012)__ by Bailey & Jakicic. Chapters 2, 5, & 7 of this book explain the importance of course teams using common formative assessments to boost student achievement. Chapters 5 & 7 provide detailed instructions for how course teams can work collaboratively to conduct a high-quality formative assessment cycle.