Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills

Breakout Session with Tammy Helfebower

Strategies to integrating 21st century skills

There are 3 types of assessments:

1. Obtrusive: stop the class and take a test, quiz, etc. Usually these are paper and pencil assessments.
2. Unobtrusive: you observe the students and assess their progress.
3. Student-generated: the student feels that they have mastered a skill, and they decide how they want to show the teacher. The student takes ownership of their learning, the timeline of their learning, and of how they demonstrate their learning.
   

Question to ponder: Will my students need to know this 40 minutes after the class ends, 40 days after the class ends, or 40 years after the class ends?

My opinion:

Honestly, I have no idea what was going on in this workshop. She talked about eight thousand different things. And she was almost definitely on crystal meth.