The Vermont Transferable Skills were developed as a part of a collaboration between the Agency of Education, Great Schools Partnership, and dozens of Vermont educators, administrators, and curriculum leaders. These resources cut across academic content areas, and support assessment of the transferable skills articulated in Vermont's Education Quality Standards (EQS).
Scoring Criteria
Scoring criteria provide rubrics for assessing VTSAS performance tasks, in alignment with the Agency's sample transferable skill proficiency-based graduation requirements’ performance indicators.
- Clear and Effective Communication
- Creative and Practical Problem-Solving
- Informed and Integrative Thinking
- Responsible and Involved Citizenship
- Self-Direction Scoring Criteria
Sample Tasks
Sample performance tasks provide schools with examples of tasks and activities that can be used to assess students’ transferable skills proficiency.
- Change We Can See: Making the Invisible Visible
- Feed the Chicks
- Free Throw Adjustments
- Health in our Town
- Wildlife and Lyme Disease: Connections and Control
Resource
The BEST Self-Direction Toolkit is a collection of resources for teachers to use in the classroom for instruction and assessment that focuses on self-direction. The toolkit includes the self-direction rubric, self-direction activities and targeted resources for teachers. All tools are designed by teachers and tested in the classroom.
Questions?
Email Pat Fitzsimmons or call (802) 828-5896.