TAC Trainers Workshop

Welcome Back! And THANK YOU Please be sure to sign in AND pick up

school materials.

Goals

• What’s New? • How will teacher access center be affected by

the launching of home access? • What will be needed for teachers to put on

their “party face”? • What grading practices will be in common

with all teachers? • Preparing parents, staff and students

2010-2011….it was a very good year…

Teachers logged in Teachers took attendance and lunch counts Teachers entered IPRs Teachers entered RCs And we all survived!

2011-2012….Goals for TAC

Teachers logged in Teachers took attendance and lunch counts Teachers entered IPRs Teachers entered RCs Teachers will use TAC Gradebook Teachers will be able to access TEST Scores HAC will launch And we all WILL SURVIVE!

The more things change…

New Possibilities

Value/ I am part of this

Professional Development

Time

My Stuff Where are my rosters?

How many students??

When will my schedule be done?

Air conditioning?!?

Get my Gradebook ready I need more desks!

I need more books!

My computer isn’t on

To plan To call homes To get materials ready

Open House already?!? Set up my classroom

How to learn this? Time to process

Time to master the skill

Purpose? Support

“I am a professional educator and I am good at what I do.” “My voice matters”

Can see the new strategy as tool to add to their current pedagogy.

What we’ve done…

Did you ever sneak a peak at your teacher’s Gradebook in school?

Transparency of Grading

Grading:

Teacher Access Center • A Gradebook • Attendance • Student Emergency info/contacts • Alerts • Seating Charts • Rosters • Testing information • Performance Plus • Interim Reports/Report Cards • Parent Portal (HAC) • Etc etc etc…

Explain how you grade…

Give this student a Grade… • C+ • C • MA (missing assignment) • D • C • MA • B- • A • F • F

Give this student a Grade… • 71 • 79 • MA (missing assignment) • 65 • 75 • MA • 80 • 100 • 59 • 20

Give this student a Grade… • 71- HW • 79- HW • MA (missing assignment)- Journal • 65- HW • 75- HW • MA- Journal • 80- Quiz • 98- Test • 59- Class Participation • 20- Journal

Grade This Student… Assignment Student Score Total Available

Chapter 1 questions HW

8 10

Chapter 1 vocabulary HW

10 13

Journal Entry 1 Excused 10

Chapter 2 Questions HW

7 10

Chapter 2 Vocabulary HW

11 14

Journal Entry 2 Not turned in- 0 10

Journal Entry 3 9 10

Quiz Chapter 1 25 25

Class participation

3 5

Test chapter 1-2 46 50

119 ___ 147 =81%

What happens when the ref makes a bad call?

• In arguably the most controversial call in World Series history, Don Denkinger calls the Royals' Jorge Orta safe at first base in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1985 Series against the Cardinals. TV replays show that St. Louis pitcher Todd Worrell had clearly beaten Orta to the bag, but Denkinger's call sets the stage for a two-run Royals rally in a critical 2-1 victory. Kansas City goes on to win the Series in seven games.

• http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=13062921

Dear Teacher, I know the rules and

I am watching the game. Sincerely, A.Parent

Feedback

“The most effective grading practices provide accurate, specific, timely feedback designed to improve student performance” -Robert Marzano

TAC Feedback “When used in a timely, fair manner, TAC will be one of the tools to facilitate Marzano’s strategy on Feedback”

3 Toxic Practices

1. Averaging all scores the same – Is learning at the beginning of the quarter as great as later?

2. The “semester killer”- One project that is worth a do-or-die grade achiever.

3. Zeroes for missing work- Reeves Article. D- is a wretched grade.. So a 0 is 6 times worse than wretched ?

So, what does all this mean for our teachers and parents?

• They will need grading to be fair • They will need grading to be timely • They will need grading to make sense • They will need grading to consistent • They will need grading to be effective in

increasing achievement

How to help

1. Ask teachers to write out how they grade. They WILL

need to be able to explain it in words 2. Ask teachers to send home classroom expectations

for grading w/opening letter. 3. Make grading policy in friendly language 4. Keep consistent, timely and fair 5. Learn to say “Oops, sorry. I am still learning the

system. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.” 6. Don’t let a missed assignment be a deal breaker.

Consistencies they will have to deal with in TAC

• All point based • Categories must be defined • Blanks (MAs) can be excluded • Percent averages may be rounded/truncated • Letter grade will automatically correlate on

district scale • Weighting assignment and/or category values • Due dates • Publishing comments or not • Students WILL have their own separate access

Let’s take a look at HAC

• http://10.3.8.37/homeaccess/

• Username: s.jones • Password: test1

During the course of 2011-2012

• Your building will go live with HAC • Contacts in office are being cleaned up first. • Start the year like it is already live ~ do not

wait! • Next steps… set up your gradebook

Today…

• 1.) Learn how to set up our gradebooks • 2.) Learn how to define categories and assignments • 3.) Learn how to enter scores.

• The manual is your reference. It is also available on

Safari Montage (search TAC) or at… • http://issuu.com/mebright/docs/tac