EDU519+Tasks

This week, you will begin creating a performance task on your own personal wiki. Using performance tasks in mathematics classroom is a crucial opportunity for students to learn to use and think with the mathematics they are learning. You will create a performance task based on the work of Wiggins and McTighe’s “Understanding by Design”. A performance task usually takes more than 1 class period to complete and requires deep math thought and problem solving.
 * Performance task assignment #1 **

For this week, you will:

1 - set up your wiki and invite me to participate 2 - decide on the topic of your performance task - choose from a chapter in your text you have for this class 3 - Using the objective or topic you chose for your task, create your enduring understandings and essential questions for the task. 4 - find and write the NCTM standards that relate to your task and essential questions 5 - post all of the above on your wiki.

Have this completed by Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at midnight.

**Performance Task assignment #2 -** This week, you will begin creating a performance task for your unit. **You will have 2 weeks to complete this part of the assignment.**

 Using performance tasks in mathematics classroom is a crucial opportunity for students to learn to use and think with the mathematics they are learning. You will create a performance task based on the work of Wiggins and McTighe’s “Understanding by Design”. A performance task usually takes more than 1 class period to complete and requires deep math thought and problem solving.

 1 - Review performance assessments and rubrics in Posamentier pp. 163-176  2 - Review the performance task criteria for UBD on the UBD summary sheet and the planning template  3 - Use the GRASPS acronym to help flesh out your performance task  4 - Connect your task to the six facets of understanding  5 - Upload your work to your personal wiki



This assignment is to create a performance task on your own. Please do not use premade tasks and submit them as your own. The goal is for you to think through the development of a task and how it may fit in an area of mathematics you may teach.