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Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reportassessments and a common grading scale ensure that students are preparedto successfully matriculate to the next math course.In addition, the mathematics department offers differentiated instructionthrough math labs, courses designed to assist, re-teach concepts, and givesupport to students who need extra help. Struggling math students areidentified early and placed in math labs, helping them learn and reinforcekey mathematical concepts. Lessons are personalized and multiple strategiesemployed in addition to communication with the student’s regular mathteacher.The teachers in mathematics utilize multiple assessment tools, predicated onthe different learning modalities (audio, visual, and kinesthetic), to ensurethat a variety of assessment strategies are used to evaluate students’learning. These include, but are not limited to, standardized exams, teacherdevelopedtest based on District exams, as well as the released CSTquestions, multiple choice and constructed response, project assessments,performance tasks, and homework and classroom activities.The school also offers off-track math courses to allow students to recovercredits, reinforce concepts, achieve grade-level, and to advance in thesubject area.EnglishIn order to achieve articulation and cohesion between grades, and to supportthe writing strand of the ELA standards, the VHHS English Department hascreated a common essay rubric and utilizes the Jane Schaeffer WritingProgram. In addition, the English Department has compiled a VHHS EnglishLanguage Arts Handbook which is available online. The handbook containsliterary terms, business letter format, and a variety of study skills. Englishteachers utilize a common essay prompt; this initial prompt is offered as theprimary vehicle, which the Jane Schaeffer method is taught. Formative andsummative assessments include department created periodic assessments,common essays prompts, common projects, and text-based study guides.These curricular maps accommodate students should they need to makeschedule changes. This collaborative curricular approach also ensures thatstudents and teachers speak a common language when approaching textsand assessments. English Language Arts periodic assessments take placeVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 146
Verdugo Hills High School WASC/CDE Self-Study Reporttwo times per course. These assessments were created by the departmentand reflect the state standards monitored in the District’s periodicassessments. The English Department is currently developing a strategy tocollect and analyze the data generated from these assessments to guideinstruction.ScienceThe science department uses a variety of assessment strategies to evaluatestudent learning. The science department has developed and is currentlyimplementing a common pacing plan for each subject area, biology,chemistry and physics. The department has also developed common periodicassessments for each subject and is in the process of fully implementingthem. The periodic assessments are aligned to the state standards and willbe used as a method of reinforcing, reviewing and evaluating with the goalof re-teaching standards the students have not fully mastered as indicatedby data collected from common assessments.As of now, teachers are individually evaluating their results of commonassessments but in time our goal would be to analyze and compare data inindividual subjects.In addition, the teachers in the science department create their own testsand quizzes using questions from a departmentalized test bank in order tohave uniformity as a department. The science department has created andimplements common laboratories that are aligned to the state standards andthe students are evaluated by writing individual reports.As a department we examine the previous year CST scores as reported inthe District’s MY DATA. We look to see the performance breakdown on statestandard clusters as a guide to shaping the following year’s pacing andinstruction for the science department.Social ScienceThe Social Studies department has agreed to use a variety of methods toensure VHHS students are mastering the standards. Within the departmentteachers use projects, quizzes, essays, exams and common assessments toVerdugo Hills High School WASC Self-Study Page 147
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