WAREHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WarehamHigh School
Wareham Cooperative
JuniorSenior High School
Faculty Handbook
for
Student Standards-Based Portfolio
Pilot
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
Christine Mars
Mel Lazarus
Anne Marie Brooks
Nancy Yancey
Michael Murray
Henry St. Julien
Portfolio Handbook
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Portfolio Process...... page 4
Portfolio guidelines...... page 4
Process for Collection and Collation...... page 4
Mission Statements...... page 5
Massachusetts Learning Standards - English Language Arts...... page 6
Massachusetts Learning Standards - Mathematics...... page 8
Types of Portfolio Artifacts...... page 11
21st Century Qualities of Success...... page 12
Portfolio Reflection Sheet...... page 13
Final Reflection...... page 14
INTRODUCTION TO THE PORTFOLIO PROCESS
The Wareham Public Schools has adopted the Standards-Based Portfolio to fulfill the requirements for Individual Student Success Plans and Educational Proficiency Plans as outlined by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education under the No Child Left Behind Act. These requirements demand a documentation of students’ work aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and Learning Standards, specifically standards that have not been met with proficiency.
Through the portfolio system students will not only collect their completed work but will also reflect on their efforts to demonstrate proficiency on common assignments in English language arts and mathematics. As the students build their portfolio through each school year, they will be able to examine their work and their improving proficiency. Students will also include at least one assignment per semester from science and social studies classes as they demonstrate application of English language arts and mathematics skills in these other subjects.
PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES
Portfolio:
- Contents consist of common assignments by department, grade, and subject.
- Portfolio binders will be kept in homeroom; working files remain in teachers’ classrooms.
- Portfolio binders include student work throughout the school year.
- Specific contents are determined by each department through development of common assignments in English language arts and mathematics, by grade and subject area.
- 2 English language arts and 2 mathematics assignments, per quarter or per term, each one accompanied by a student reflection (see page 12 for form).
- 1 science and 1 social studies assignment per semester, each accompanied by a student reflection.
Assessment:
- Rubrics are developed in each department respectively for grading common assignments.
- 2 points will be added to the term average per quarter for submission of 2 assignments and their corresponding reflection sheets.
- Points added to quarter average in Mathematics and English language arts.
- Final student reflection of the entire portfolio, in addition to the reflections corresponding to the assignments, must be completed at end of year and is required to earn points added to the fourth quarter average.
Collection and Collation of Portfolio Submissions:
- Homeroom classes will be the storage location of students’ portfolio binders.
- During semester and final exam days, students will take their portfolio binders to their exam classes. Exam classes will be extended slightly to allow time for students to move their portfolio submissions from their class/subject folders to their portfolios. Exam days will end with a homeroom period to allow students to return their portfolio binders.
- Students will complete their final reflection during a designated homeroom period in May that will be extended.
At the present time the artifacts that demonstrate the most "portfolio worthiness" shall be anchor assignments. These tasks shall be generated collaboratively in departments and represent departmental consensus on the depth of understanding a student must demonstrate to meet a given Massachusetts Learning Standard.
Mission of Wareham Public Schools
The mission of the Wareham Public Schools is to educate all students for life’s responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities.
WarehamHigh School
Mission Statement
WarehamHigh School will prepare its students for further academic and occupational opportunities, social responsibility, and commitment to community. By maintaining high academic standards through a rigorous course of study, students will be expected to apply effective effort in order to master skills and to value scholarship, citizenship, craftsmanship, and sportsmanship. Students will demonstrate that they are independent and critical thinkers who can make sound judgments and decisions as citizens, consumers, and life long learners
WarehamHigh School Academic Expectations
Wareham Students Will ACQUIRE Information in a Variety of Ways
A.1By actively and critically reading, listening, discussing, observing, and
participating
A.2By questioning appropriately
A.3By researching independently
A.4By locating and retrieving information through appropriate use of
technology
Wareham Students Will INTERPRET Information in a Variety of Ways
I.1By organizing and processing information
I.2By employing critical thinking and problem solving skills
I.3By evaluating for trends, patterns, comparisons, and relationships
I.4By making inferences and drawing conclusions
Wareham Students Will COMMUNICATE Information in a Variety of Ways
C.1By writing and speaking clearly
C.2By selecting and applying effective techniques in performance tasks and
demonstrating proficiency
C.3By presenting creatively in a variety of media, including technology
WarehamHigh School Social/Civic Expectations
Wareham Students Will ACT RESPONSIBLY AND RESPECTFULLY in a Variety of Ways
R.1By demonstrating academic integrity
R.2By participating and working cooperatively in school groups
R.3By demonstrating the correlation between effort and achievement by
meeting or exceeding academic expectations
R.4By understanding the achievements and traditions of a multicultural and
global society
R.5By engaging in the democratic process
Wareham Cooperative Junior/Senior High School
Mission Statement
The WarehamCooperativeJuniorSenior High School fosters an environment for the students’ academic and personal growth in preparation for their participation in society.
Massachusetts Learning Standards: English Language Arts
Standard 1: Discussion
Students will use agreed-upon rules for informal and formal discussions in small and large groups
Standard 2: Questioning, Listening, and Contributing
Students will pose questions, listen to the ideas of others, and contribute their own information or ideas in group discussions or interviews in order to acquire new knowledge.
Standard 3: Oral Presentation
Students will make oral presentations that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and the information to be conveyed.
Standard 4: Vocabulary and Concept Development
Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in reading and writing
Standard 5: Structure and Origins of Modern English
Students will analyze standard English grammar and usage and recognize how its vocabulary has developed and been influenced by other languages
Standard 6: Formal and Informal English
Students will describe, analyze, and use appropriately formal and informal English.
Standard 7: Beginning Reading
Students will understand the nature of written English and the relationship of letters and spelling patterns to the sounds of speech.
Standard 8: Understanding a Text
Students will identify basic facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for interpretation
Standard 9: Making Connections
Students will deepen their understanding of a literary or non-literary work by relating it to its contemporary context or historical background.
Standard 10: Genre
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the characteristics of different genres.
Standard 11: Theme
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of theme in a literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Standard 12: Fiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structure and elements of fiction and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding
Standard 13: Nonfiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the purposes, structure, and elements of nonfiction or informational materials and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding
Standard 14: Poetry
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and elements of poetry and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding
Massachusetts Learning Standards: English Language Arts, continued
Standard 15: Style and Language
Students will identify and analyze how an author’s words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone, and will provide evidence from the text to support their understanding
Standard 16: Myth, Traditional Narrative, and Classical Literature
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and elements of myths, traditional narratives, and classical literature and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding
Standard 17: Dramatic Literature
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the themes, structure, and elements of drama and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.
Standard 18: Dramatic Reading and Performance
Students will plan and present dramatic readings, recitations, and performances that demonstrate appropriate consideration of audience and purpose
General Standards 19: Writing
Students will write with a clear focus, coherent organization and sufficient detail
General Standards 20: Writing
Students will write for different audiences and purposes
General Standards 21: Consideration of Audience and Purpose
Students will demonstrate improvement in organization, content, paragraph development, level of detail, style, tone and word choice (diction) in their compositions after revising them.
General Standards 22: Standard English Conventions
Students will use knowledge of standard English conversion in their writing, revising ad editing
General Standards 23: Organizing Ideas in Writing
Students will organize ideas in writing in a way that makes sense for their purpose.
General Standards 24: Research
Students will gather information from a variety of sources, analyze and evaluate the quality of the information they obtain, and use it to answer their own questions
General Standards 25: Evaluating Writing and Presentation
Students will develop and use appropriate rhetorical, logical and stylistic criteria for assessing final versions of their compositions or research projects before presenting them to varied audiences.
General Standards 26: Analysis of Media
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the conventions, elements, and techniques of film, radio, video, television, multimedia productions, the Internet, and emerging technologies, and provide evidence from the works to support their understanding.
General Standards 27: Media Production
Students will design and create coherent media productions (audio, video, television, multimedia, Internet, emerging technologies) with a clear controlling idea, adequate detail, and appropriate consideration of audience, purpose, and medium
Massachusetts Learning Standards: Mathematics, Grades 9-10
Number Sense and Operations
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
10.N.1Identify and use the properties of operations on real numbers, including the associative, commutative, and distributive properties; the existence of the identity and inverse elements for addition and multiplication; the existence of nth roots of positive real numbers for any positive integer n; and the inverse relationship between taking the nth root of and the nth power of a positive real number.
10.N.2Simplify numerical expressions, including those involving positive integer exponents or the absolute value, e.g., 3(24 – 1) = 45, 4|3 – 5| + 6 = 14; apply such simplifications in the solution of problems.
10.N.3Find the approximate value for solutions to problems involving square roots and cube roots without the use of a calculator, e.g., .
10.N.4Use estimation to judge the reasonableness of results of computations and of solutions to problems involving real numbers.
Patterns, Relations, and Algebra
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
10.P.1Describe, complete, extend, analyze, generalize, and create a wide variety of patterns, including iterative, recursive (e.g., Fibonnacci Numbers), linear, quadratic, and exponential functional relationships.
10.P.2Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between various representations of a line. Determine a line’s slope and x- and y-intercepts from its graph or from a linear equation that represents the line. Find a linear equation describing a line from a graph or a geometric description of the line, e.g., by using the “point-slope” or “slope y-intercept” formulas. Explain the significance of a positive, negative, zero, or undefined slope.
10.P.3Add, subtract, and multiply polynomials. Divide polynomials by monomials.
10.P.4Demonstrate facility in symbolic manipulation of polynomial and rational expressions by rearranging and collecting terms; factoring (e.g., a2 – b2 = (a + b)(a – b), x2 + 10x + 21 = (x + 3)(x + 7), 5x4 + 10x3 – 5x2 = 5x2 (x2 + 2x – 1)); identifying and canceling common factors in rational expressions; and applying the properties of positive integer exponents.
10.P.5Find solutions to quadratic equations (with real roots) by factoring, completing the square, or using the quadratic formula. Demonstrate an understanding of the equivalence of the methods.
10.P.6Solve equations and inequalities including those involving absolute value of linear expressions (e.g., |x - 2| > 5) and apply to the solution of problems.
10.P.7Solve everyday problems that can be modeled using linear, reciprocal, quadratic, or exponential functions. Apply appropriate tabular, graphical, or symbolic methods to the solution. Include compound interest, and direct and inverse variation problems. Use technology when appropriate.
10.P.8Solve everyday problems that can be modeled using systems of linear equations or inequalities. Apply algebraic and graphical methods to the solution. Use technology when appropriate. Include mixture, rate, and work problems.
Geometry
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
10.G.1Identify figures using properties of sides, angles, and diagonals. Identify the figures’ type(s) of symmetry.
10.G.2Draw congruent and similar figures using a compass, straightedge, protractor, and other tools such as computer software. Make conjectures about methods of construction. Justify the conjectures by logical arguments.
10.G.3Recognize and solve problems involving angles formed by transversals of coplanar lines. Identify and determine the measure of central and inscribed angles and their associated minor and major arcs. Recognize and solve problems associated with radii, chords, and arcs within or on the same circle.
10.G.4Apply congruence and similarity correspondences (e.g., ABC XYZ) and properties of the figures to find missing parts of geometric figures, and provide logical justification.
10.G.5Solve simple triangle problems using the triangle angle sum property and/or the Pythagorean theorem.
10.G.6Use the properties of special triangles (e.g., isosceles, equilateral, 30º–60º–90º, 45º–45º–90º) to solve problems.
10.G.7Using rectangular coordinates, calculate midpoints of segments, slopes of lines and segments, and distances between two points, and apply the results to the solutions of problems.
10.G.8Find linear equations that represent lines either perpendicular or parallel to a given line and through a point, e.g., by using the “point-slope” form of the equation.
Massachusetts Learning Standards: Mathematics, Grades 9-10, continued
10.G.9Draw the results, and interpret transformations on figures in the coordinate plane, e.g., translations, reflections, rotations, scale factors, and the results of successive transformations. Apply transformations to the solutions of problems.
10.G.10Demonstrate the ability to visualize solid objects and recognize their projections and cross sections.
10.G.11Use vertex-edge graphs to model and solve problems.
Measurement
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
10.M.1Calculate perimeter, circumference, and area of common geometric figures such as parallelograms, trapezoids, circles, and triangles.
10.M.2Given the formula, find the lateral area, surface area, and volume of prisms, pyramids, spheres, cylinders, and cones, e.g., find the volume of a sphere with a specified surface area.
10.M.3Relate changes in the measurement of one attribute of an object to changes in other attributes, e.g., how changing the radius or height of a cylinder affects its surface area or volume.
10.M.4Describe the effects of approximate error in measurement and rounding on measurements and on computed values from measurements.
Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
10.D.1Select, create, and interpret an appropriate graphical representation (e.g., scatterplot, table, stem-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, circle graph, line graph, and line plot) for a set of data and use appropriate statistics (e.g., mean, median, range, and mode) to communicate information about the data. Use these notions to compare different sets of data.
10.D.2Approximate a line of best fit (trend line) given a set of data (e.g., scatterplot). Use technology when appropriate.
10.D.3Describe and explain how the relative sizes of a sample and the population affect the validity of predictions from a set of data.
Massachusetts Learning Standards: Mathematics, Grades 11-12
Number Sense and Operations
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
12.N.1Define complex numbers (e.g., a + bi) and operations on them, in particular, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Relate the system of complex numbers to the systems of real and rational numbers.
12.N.2Simplify numerical expressions with powers and roots, including fractional and negative exponents.
Patterns, Relations, and Algebra
Students engage in problem solving, communicating, reasoning, connecting, and representing as they:
12.P.1Describe, complete, extend, analyze, generalize, and create a wide variety of patterns, including iterative and recursive patterns such as Pascal’s Triangle.
12.P.2Identify arithmetic and geometric sequences and finite arithmetic and geometric series. Use the properties of such sequences and series to solve problems, including finding the general term and sum recursively and explicitly.
12.P.3Demonstrate an understanding of the binomial theorem and use it in the solution of problems.
12.P.4Demonstrate an understanding of the trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions.
12.P.5Perform operations on functions, including composition. Find inverses of functions.
12.P.6Given algebraic, numeric and/or graphical representations, recognize functions as polynomial, rational, logarithmic, exponential, or trigonometric.