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 Workshop Offerings We offer workshops to help you get started with portfolios and assessment. You can sign up for our open workshops or have a workshop brought on site to your school. Descriptions of the workshops appear below, along with all of our other offerings. To sign up, or for further details, complete our registration form or drop us a line at info@richerpicture.com.
Workshop Descriptions
Special New Hampshire Sessions: 101. Getting Started with Digital Portfolios This is a hands-on introduction to digital portfolios and the Richer Picture™ tools. We’ll review existing samples, and examine the essential questions of effective portfolios. 102. How Do We Implement Portfolios Without Going Crazy?
What does it take to successfully implement portfolios?
In this workshop, we'll look at the roles and responsibilities of
portfolio coordinators, administrators, teachers, and students and at
the three kinds of support -- administrative, technological and
pedagogical. We'll look at how schools have integrated portfolios into
their other activities, and how schools find the time to make it happen.
103. Digital Portfolios and the Elementary Curriculum
Learn how digital portfolios can be used to capture students' reading,
writing, and problem solving skills to improve literacy and parent-teacher communications. During the hands-on session, you will be able to see samples of student portfolios work with online rubrics, and discuss how portfolios can be useful at your school.
200. Portfolio Institute This two-day fast-track session helps schools get started with digital portfolios quickly. The session is designed for school teams, and includes discussions of "How Do We Set Expectations for Student Learning?", "How Do We Design Portfolio Worthy Tasks?", "How Do We Assess Individual Tasks with Schoolwide Rubrics?" and "How Do We Review the Portfolio As a Whole?" Participants will leave with a timeline for implementing portfolios, and protocols that can be used with faculty colleagues. 201. How Do We Set Expectations For Student Learning? We’ll examine your school’s vision of what students should know and be able to do. We’ll discuss how state standards can be integrated into the vision, and how to create learner outcomes that are clear for students and teachers. 202. How Do We Create Schoolwide Rubrics? For portfolios to be successful, teachers and students need a common language for deciding what work "meets the standard." We will look at samples of schoolwide rubrics, and discuss processes for helping your faculty come to consensus - and how schools can use data to revise the rubrics over time. 301. How Do We Design Portfolio Worthy Tasks? What students put into their portfolio depends, often, on what teachers ask them to do. Here, teachers will learn about criteria for what makes a "portfolio-worthy" assignment -- and will review how to make existing assignments valid, equitable, and reliable. Over these two sessions, teachers will review tasks and generate assignments that both meet the school's expectations and allow students to show their growth as learners. 401. How Do We Assess Individual Tasks With Common Rubrics? We will look at how teachers can give better feedback to students, examine student work, integrate common rubrics with specific assignment requirements, and analyze the results. Participants will look at three aspects of assessing student work: determining the tasks that will go into the portfolio, providing feedback with a common rubric, and working with colleagues on the development of common tasks. 402. How Do We Review The Portfolio As A Whole? The power of portfolios comes in the ability to look at a student's body of work as a whole. In this workshop, we will look at how students can select pieces for an end-of-year review, prompts for overall reflections and rubrics for assessment. We will look at samples from multiple schools, and discuss the logistics of reviewing work throughout the year. 501. How Do We Fill The Gap After Our Peer Review? As your school goes through the process of accountability reviews, you may receive feedback about where your system could be improved. We can work with your faculty to look at the suggested revisions, and help you find ways to address these changes. 502. How Do We Make Decisions Based On Portfolio Data? The Richer Picture™ portfolio software presents a new type of data-driven decision making. Rather than just disaggregating test score data, teachers can analyze the data from the scoring of online rubrics, and look for patterns in student data. This workshop helps teachers find and analyze the data most useful for your every day practice. 503. How Do We Tie Portfolios to Curriculum Mapping? Digital portfolios can connect very closely to the process of curriculum mapping. Both systems focus on linking to standards. A curriculum map allows teachers to look at their year-long patterns; a digital portfolio allows students to connect their work to school expectations. Here, we will see how the two processes are complementary and feed on each other. 504. How Do We Use Portfolios For Parent Conferences? A common use for elementary portfolios is to help parents better understand their children's progress. Here, we look at how we can collect and select information for this important audience, and help create better communication between home and school.
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