Performance Task Academy Formats

Faculty/instructors/teachers, academic resource professionals and other interested parties are invited to attend a training workshop of the Performance Task Academy.  These are opportunities to work with people from your own institution as well as those from other colleges, universities, community colleges and high schools.  

All Academies include a mixture of mini-lectures, small group activities, large group discussion, and independent work. Each workshop runs two days.  Copies of materials will be provided, and breakfasts and lunches are included. 

A limited number of participants are allowed to register for each Academy in order to keep the activities highly interactive and hands-on.  It is recommended that each institution sends a team of at least two people to the workshop so they can collaborate when returning to campus.

Individual institutions can also request sponsoring their own Academy.

For more information, please contact us.

For information on fees, and formats for hosting or sponsoring an Academy, please download this information sheet.

Academy 101: Introduction to Performance Tasks

The two-day Academy 101 introduces the curricular and pedagogical work that complements institution-wide assessment practices.  This Academy is designed for those with little to no background in authentic assessment and performance tasks.  In particular, participants will:

• Learn about CLA Performance Tasks
• Participate in a hands-on workshop to develop CLA-style performance tasks where course content or concepts can be embedded

The format for Academy 101 is as follows:

DAY 1 (8:00 am - 5:00 pm):

• Welcome and introductions
• An overview of authentic assessment practices
• Exploring CLA Performance Tasks
• Reading actual student responses
• Introduction to the CLA Scoring Rubric
• Using a template to create a performance task
• (Enjoy dinner on your own)

DAY 2 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm):

• Planning how to create a performance task (in groups)
• Working on creating performance tasks
• Feedback and sharing
• Departures
  

Academy 102: Performance Task Pedagogical Strategies 

 
Pre-requisite: Academy 101

Participants will:

• Learn about metacognition and teaching for transfer
  
• Learn about pedagogical practices that can be used when teaching with performance tasks
• Learn more about rubrics and scoring performance tasks as a means to build higher order thinking skills

DAY 1 (8:00 am - 5:00 pm):

• Welcome and introductions
• Incorporating subject matter content and higher order thinking skills into your performance task
• Design thinking and building performance tasks
• Lessons learned from neuroscience, cognitive science and learning theory
• Metacognition and teaching for transfer
• Pedagogical practices for effective use of performance tasks
• (Enjoy dinner on your own)

DAY 2 (8:00 am - 3:00 pm):

• An overview of effective rubrics 
• Calibrating scoring of open-ended responses
• Work time to build/refine your performance task, rubric and pedagogical plan

Academy 103: Advanced Performance Task Development (On-line)

Pre-requisites: Academy 101, 102

Academy 103 is designed as an advanced workshop in teaching with CLA-Style Performance Tasks. As an advanced workshop, Academy 103 is open to educators who have completed creation of a CLA-Style Performance Task and would like to further develop their knowledge and skills through a mix of of web-based seminars and individual consultation with CLA Education staff.  Through six on-line sessions over two months, participants will:

• Build a performance task rubric for their task, and further explore teaching with rubrics for the purpose of fostering students’ metacognition
• Pilot their CLA-Style Performance Task and rubric, focusing on their ability to foster students higher order thinking skills and subject matter knowledge
• Collaborate with other faculty and CLA Education staff in preparing to submit their task to the CLA Education Model Task Library

Who Should Attend?

The Performance Task Academy was designed for educators who have an interest in and commitment to:

• Designing their curricula and pedagogy to include the explicit teaching and learning of higher order thinking skills (like those assessed through the CLA or CWRA).  Although we might think these skills transcend a particular course or discipline, they are typically considered part of an institution’s collective goals of a general education.
• Incorporating into their courses new opportunities for students to practice complex problem solving that resembles the range of ways they will in the future likely apply or transfer what they have learned to real-life situations.

Next Academy Preview Webinar:

February 9, 2012 at 1pm for CLA; 2pm for CWRA. 

E-mail cjackson@cae.org to attend.

Participation is free and open to all.

Past Academies

(1) March 15-16, 2008 at Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania

(2) May 1-2, 2008 at the California State University System Office in Long Beach, California

 (3) May 29-30, 2008 at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas

(4) August 2-3, 2008 in Washington, DC

(5) October 13, 2008 in Handong, Korea

(6) October 18-19, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan

(7) October 23-24, 2008 at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina

(8) October 31-November 1, 2008 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota

(9) November 6-7, 2008 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona  

(10) November 14-15, 2008 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

(11) December 4-5, 2008 at the University of Charleston in Charleston, West Virginia

(12) January 5, 2009 at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire 

(13) January 7-8, 2009 in Greenville, North Carolina

(14) January 16, 2009 at the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse, Wisconsin

(15) January 30, 2009 in Spartanburg, South Carolina

(16) February 6-7, 2009 at the University of Wisconsin in Stout, Wisconsin

(17) February 21-22, 2009 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California 

(18) March 6-7, 2009 at the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay, Wisconsin

(19) March 10-11, 2009 at the University of North Carolina in Fayetteville, North Carolina

(20) April 3-4, 2009 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin

(21) April 27-28, 2009 in New York, New York

(22) May 1, 2009 at USC in Los Angeles, California

(23) May 12-13, 2009 at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio

(24) May 14-15, 2009 at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota

(25) May 19-20, 2009 at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio

(26) May 28-29, 2009 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky

(27) August 4-5, 2009 in Jersey City, New Jersey

(28) August 13-14, 2009 at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York

(29) August 19-20, 2009 at Seton Hill in Greensburg, Pennsylvania

(30) October 15-16, 2009 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington

(31) January 4-5, 2010 at University of Texas, El Paso in El Paso, Texas

(32) January 7-8, 2010 at CUNY in New York, New York

(33) January 11-12, 2010 at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN

(34) January 20, 2010 in Paris, France

(35) March 24-25, 2010 at Minot State Univerity in Minot, ND

(36) May 6, 2010 at Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC

(37) May 18-19, 2010 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY

(38) May 20-21, 2010 at Charleston Southern University in Charleston, SC

(39, 40) May 24-25, 2010 and May 26-27, 2010 in Kuwait City, Kuwait

(42) June 8-9 at the Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, NH

(43) August 3-4, 2010 in Jersey City, NJ

(44) August 9-10, 2010 at Fayetteville State in Fayetteville, NC

 (45) August 12-13, 2010 at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA

(46) October 14-15, 2010 at Bluefield State College in Bluefield, WV

(47) October 21-22, 2010 in Dallas, TX

(48) October 28-29, 2010 at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA

(49) November 11-12, 2010 at the Stupski Foundation in San Francisco, CA

(50) December 8-9, 2010 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY

(51) December 20-21, 2010 in Guadalajara, Mexico

(52) January 6-7, 2011 at Drake University in Des Moines, IA

(53) January 11-12, 2011 at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, MN

(54) January 14-15, 2011 at California State University, Fresno in Fresno, CA

(55) February 10-11, 2011 at Punahou School in Honolulu, HI

(56) February 22-23, 2011 at RIF in Washington, DC

(57) March 4-5, 2011 at Delaware State University in  Dover, DE

(58/59) March 7-10, 2011 in Bogota, Colombia

(60) March 17-18, 2011 at ConnectEd California in Berkeley, CA

(61) May 2-3, 2011 at Indiana Wesleyan University in St. Marion, Indiana

(62) May 31-June 1, 2011 in New York, New York

(63) June 2-3, 2011 (Academy 102) in New York, New York

(64) July 30-31, 2011 at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA

(65) August 3-4, 2011 at Currey Ingram Academy in Brentwood, TN

(66) August 11-12, 2011 at Sandia Prep in Albuquerque, NM

(67) August 15-16 at Colorado Academy in Denver, CO

(68) August 16-17, 2011 at Auburn University in Auburn, AL

(69) September 1-2, 2011 at Wildwood School in Los Angeles, CA

(70) September 12-13, 2011 at Kalaheo School in Kuaui, HI

(71) September 15-16, 2011 at Moanalua High School in Oahu, HI

(72) October 6-7, 2011 at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta, GA

(73) October 17-21, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand

(74) October 28-29, 2011 at the Great Lakes Consortium in Toledo, OH

(75) November 3-4, 2011 at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota in Fargo, ND

(76) November 11-12, 2011 at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, MI

(77) December 14-15, 2011 at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA

(78) January 2-3, 2012 at Mount Vernon Academy in Atlanta, GA

(79) January 5-6, 2012 in New York, NY

(80) January 10-11, 2012 in Denver, CO

(81) January 12-13, 2012 (Academy 102) in Denver, CO

(82) February 2-3, 2012 (Academy 102) in Guadalajara, MX