Youth Development Evaluation Orientation People NC 4 H

Youth Development Evaluation Orientation

People NC 4 -H E-LC 2016

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Purpose NC 4 -H Eval Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Organizational Psychology Research – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? An organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action rapidly is the ultimate competitive advantage. — Jack Welch

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Organizational Psych – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of 1. the smartphone? What are desired results? 2. What is evidence of understanding? 1. What learning experiences will get to understanding? Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay Mc. Tighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 17 -19.

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Org Psych – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact – Standard: Search, High. Scope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4 -H – Essential Question: How do young people learn to master life’s challenges? Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. --Maria Montessori

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Org Psych – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact – Standard: Search, High. Scope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4 -H 1. What do youth need to know for healthy development? – Essential Question: How do young people master life’s 2. What skills enable youth to achieve? challenges? 1. What must youth understand to become contributing members of society? Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay Mc. Tighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 58 -59.

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Org Psych – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advance youth development quality and impact – Standard: Search, High. Scope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4 -H – Essential How doforyoung 1. What do. Question: youth need to know healthypeople master challenges? development? 2. What skills enable youth to achieve? transfer 1. What must youth understand to become contributing members of society?

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization – Standard: Org Psych – Essential Question: What is the organizational equivalent of the smartphone? • Advancing youth development quality and impact – Standard: Search, High. Scope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4 -H – Essential Question: How will young people meet challenges, present & future • Advance authentic assessment in youth development – Standard: Understanding by Design, Evaluation …authentic problem solving requires deciding. Stds. –when Essential How canand wewhich know facts… if/when/how to use. Question: which approach --Grant programming matters? Wiggins

NC 4 -H Evaluation Learning Circle (E-LC) Proposed Goals • Become a learning organization s(t)imulate – Standard: We Peter Sengelearning-by-doing by: • Informal checks for understanding – Essential Question: What the organizational equivalent • Observations andisdialogues • Tests and quizzes of the smartphone? • Open-ended questions, problems • Performance tasks • Advancing youth development quality and impact – Standard: Search, High. Scope, Forum for YD, Tufts/4 -H – Essential Question: How will young people meet challenges, present & future • Advancing authentic assessment in youth development – Standard: Understanding by Design, Evaluation Stds. – Essential Question: can we know if/when/how Source: Grant Wiggins & How Jay Mc. Tighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 152 -153. programming matters?

Six Facets to Build Assessments for Understanding A student who really understands can… 1. Explain big ideas in paraphrase 1. Interpret meanings of ideas 1. Apply in new situations 1. See in perspective 1. Demonstrate empathy 1. Reveal self-knowledge, thoughts, feelings, values Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay Mc. Tighe. (2005). Understanding by Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, pp. 163 -164.

Process E-LC: Making the Best Better ACQUISITION MEANING TRANSFER …of facts, skills …of ideas, processes …to new situations Direct Instruction Facilitative Informing via explicit Teaching, engaging instruction on targeted knowledge and skills learners in processing, guided inquiry, projects Coaching with clear performance goals for independent practice, feedback, just -in-time teaching Strategies include… Lecture Advance organizers Questioning Demonstration Guidance, processing Feedback Diagnostic assessment Analogies, examples Inquiry, problem-learning Questioning, probing Reciprocal teaching Rethinking, reflection Ongoing assessment and feedback Consulting Prompting selfassessment, reflection Source: Grant Wiggins & Jay Mc. Tighe. (2011). The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, pp. 105.

Possibili ties Exemplar: NC 4 -H Camps Consistency & Quality • Expectations of Agents & State 4 -H Office • CALS Mission • ACA Best Practices • Youth Development Best Practices Affordability Marketing • Operate camps within quality guidelines listed under Consistency & Quality • Needs Assessments/ Perceptions • In-process and outcome assessments used to communicate with stakeholders Programming & Funding • Improve the quality and outcomes of 4 -H camping • Micro-level • Macro-level

Practical ities Meeting Time, Place, Format • Online Monthly: lunchtime? Early morning? • E-Basics Self-Directed • Project Group Consults • Special Opps: Yours and Mine • Products: Project reports, publications Grants, Project plans Recruiting, Marketing