Familiarity with OGT Provide teacher with an overview for what the OGT/OAT is, analyzing old tests Breaks down the types of questioning into multiple choice, short answer, extended response Discusses Bloom’s taxonomy and the difference between lower and higher level questioning

• · Question Writing
  • Will show teachers how to write effective OGT-like questions.
  • Difference between higher level and lower level.
  • Give tips for writing good multiple choice questions as well as short answer and extended response
  • How to take a standard and write a question from it.
    
    
• Power Standards
  • Provides teachers with the opportunity to identify the Power Standards within subject areas through a framework that recognizes both the specific school/district curriculum and the state-wide curriculum. 
  • Leads teachers through an analysis of the state-wide tests, and the frequency of questions asked on those tests tied to the Power Standards. 
  • Helps the teachers develop a year-long plan for instruction based on the Power Standards.
    
    

Developing Meaningful Instruction

• Curriculum Alignment
• Involves introducing the standards to the teaching staff or taking the current curriculum maps and organizing them
• How to organize those standards into a pacing chart that divides the year into 4 terms that each short-cycled assessment will be based on
  
  
• Vertical Alignment
  • Involves taking a look at the pacing charts for all grade levels per subject area and seeing how they all fit together
  • Will take part in the Bet Your Paycheck, Wish List activity to show where the overlap can be prevented and where transition can be smooth from grade to grade.
    
    
• Curriculum Compacting
  • Training of teachers for strategies of compacting curriculum to allow for standards to be mastered.
  • Instructional techniques for taking already existing curriculum and developing strategies for compacting.
  • Planning out the school year to allow all standards to be covered and time to re-teaching if necessary.
    
    
• Differentiated Instruction
  • Will train teachers different strategies of differentiation.
  • Target areas of already existing lesson plans that can be used as differentiation as well as creating new ones.
  • Identifying which students need differentiation.

Understanding Student Data

• Data Analysis
  • Involves looking at test results and determining:
    • What intervention is needed?
    • Where there might be gaps in the curriculum?
    • If there are any problems with the actual test questions?
    • How daily instruction might need to be altered?
      
      
• Oasis Training
  • Training of teachers how to use the Oasis database.
  • Basic training on accessing and understanding the data from the tests.
  • Training for administrators on the different charts, what they mean, and how they can be used.
    
    
• Data Entry/Assessment Training
  • Here a teacher leader will be trained how to type assessments using OGT/OAT formatting.
  • Items such as math symbols, headers and footers, and fonts or logos will be taught to ensure that assessment look as OGT-like as possible.

OGT for Special Areas

• Related Arts: Taking Performance-Based Learning and Translating it to the OGT/OAT
  • Taking performance-based classes such as music, art, and physical education and figuring ways to prepare students for the OGT/OAT.
  • Developing tests and aligning themselves with the state or national standards.
  • Creating effective written questions that properly evaluate performance-based knowledge.
    
    
• Special Education Strategies for OGT/OAT
  • Strategies will be discussed on how to get special education students ready for the OGT/OAT.
  • Working with classroom teachers to differentiate OGT/OAT prep material for special education students.
  • Daily practices that can get special education students prepared for the OGT test.
    
    
• Gifted Education
  • Working with teachers either in the gifted department or teachers with gifted students how to differentiate for the gifted student.
  • Strategies for getting underachieving gifted students ready to take the test.
  • Different ways of assessing so that gifted students can go deeper into a standard.

Staff Development

• New Teacher Training
• Crash course in LCAP test writing and data entry for new teachers to an already existing district.
• Explain the overall concept of LCAP.
  
  
• Teacher-Leader
  • Will offer suggestions how to select teacher leaders.
  • Offer training for the teacher-leaders on strategies for working with a team.
  • Work with teacher-leaders on effective communication skills and protocols.
    
    
• Staff Collaboration
  • Working with the staff on how to collaborate with one another.
  • Strategies for intergrade as well as intragrade collaboration for the standards and test writing.
  • Protocols than can be set up to make collaboration easier.
    
    
• Working on the Work: Improving Our Schools Through Action Research

Student Empowerment

• OGT/OAT Student Remediation
  • Developing strategies for students who perform poorly on the short cycled assessments.
  • Offering lessons and intervention ideas for regular classroom teachers as well as special education.
    
    
• Student-Led Conferences
  • Provides participants with the rationale for using Student-Led Conferences.
  • Provides participants with a step-by-step blueprint of how to begin Student-Led Conferences, complete with materials.
  • Demonstrates how to integrate Student-Led Conferences into the world of Standards-Based Education.
    
    
• Personalizing Our Schools: Knowing, Trusting, Empowering, Connecting and Honoring Our Students.
  
  
• SAT/ACT Preparation
  • Developing strategies to prepare students for both the SAT and ACT
  • Test-taking strategies
  • What teachers can do in their day-to-day practice to prepare students for these tests

Administrative Leadership Training

• Equity for All
  • Standards and special education
  • Shift in education
    
    
• Leading Through Change
• Protocol activities
• Group process discussions
  
  
• Dealing with Resisters
• How to move forward with entrenched staff
  
  
• Understanding the Big Umbrellas
• Effective communication about LCAP process
• Time spent activity
  
  
• Leadership Commitments
• How your district CIP aligns with the LCAP process
• Effective decision making using LCAP
  
  
• Data Analysis
• Reviewing your district report card
• Other data used for student achievement progress
• Using OASIS
  
  
• Leading Data Conferences
• Developing probing questions based on OASIS data
• Hands-on training using administrative graphs
  
  
• Developing SMART Goals
• Providing accountability measures for all teachers using short-cycle assessments
  
  
• Leadership through Differentiation
• Overall discussion on differentiation in the classroom
• What is it? What to look for? What to expect?
• How does it fit with the short-cycle assessment process for your district/building

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