Ocoee Middle School Dec. 13, 2012 Grade Level / Related Arts Meeting

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Wisdom Table Activity Now create your own performance task based on the Enduring Understanding, Essential Question, Standards and Learning Targets you brought today. Sharing time…

Formative Assessments How will you know that students are moving in the right direction to be able to complete a performance task at the end of the unit? Are you checking students’ understanding daily? Do you collect data about student understanding and use it to decide how your instruction will proceed for the next day, rest of the week/unit, etc…?

Formative assessment is when the cook tastes the soup; summative assessment is when the guests taste the soup. What types of formative assessment do you use? How truly effective are they?

Wisdom Table Activity Now create your own formative assessment based on your Enduring Understanding, Essential Question, Standards, Learning Targets, and Performance Task. Sharing time…

Transfer to the “GAME”

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 – District-wide Training “UbD” part 3. *Bring information from both Part 1(Sept) & Part 2(Nov). Consider this: Any assessment design should… Have clearly articulated criteria Be valid and reliable Provide sufficient measure of the desired results Encourage students to self assess their own learning. RUBRICS aligned to your performance tasks will help to accomplish all of these things. We will look at rubrics in more detail at our next training.

ELA CC Pilot Writing Assessment #2 Friday, Dec 14. See ‘gold’ General Instructions & Schedule sheet. OCOEE MIDDLE SCHOOL WRITING PRACTICE #2 SCHOOL-WIDE GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS & SCHEDULE December 14, 2012 School-wide Writing Practice day will be as follows: Homeroom 8-9:40 A.M. (No TV announcements). (Dismiss 7 th & 8 th grade early to report to HR.) Writing Prompts to HR teachers morning of (via mailbox). Writing time = 60 minutes. (ALL 6 th & 7 th grade Students writing on Notebook paper—some 8 th grade homerooms will practice with computers, if not, use NB paper.) BEGIN WRITING BY 8:30 in order to be completed within allotted time frame. TURN IN TO K. COVINGTON: **ALL NB paper WRITING & Writing Prompt sheets. Those utilizing computers we have a plan in place.

Schedule Adjustment: 7 th grade dismiss to Related Arts at 9:40. Related Arts – 7 th grade: 2 nd period 9:45-10:45. 8 th grade dismiss to Related Arts at 10:50. Related Arts – 8 th grade: 4 th period 10:55-11:55. **Please do not move any students in hallways prior to 9:40 A.M.** If your ENTIRE class finishes the writing before the 60 minutes, you may collect papers & have monitors return these to K.Covington. However, maintain a quiet classroom atmosphere, as other classes around you may still be writing.

Assignments are as follows: The morning of the Writing Practice, from 8:15-9:40, Related Arts teachers will have an assigned hallway to monitor & collect Writing Envelopes from teachers to return to K.Covingtpon 6 th grade hallway (Chargers): Spencer. 6 th grade hallway Duncan, Sausville, Gallaher, Brown. 7 th grade hallway(from cafeteria): W.Smith, E.Frazier, Robenolt, C.Smith. 7 th / 8 th grade lower hall (Mustangs/WalkingH): McPherson, Tapke, Still. 8 th grade hall (Thoroughbreds): T.Frazier, Johnson, Clayton. 8 th grade hall (ShowHorses): Burroughs, Calfee. Thanks to everyone for helping make these Writing Practices go smoothly. This year’s format is mandated by the state due to our ELA Common Core Pilot commitment. “Success by Design not by Chance.” Bradley County Schools

Writing Practice Envelope contents… Writing Prompts ‘Yellow’ TEST DIRECTIONS sheet ‘Purple’ TESTING DO NOT DISTURB sign (Return all three of these in your Writing Practice envelope.) Student Writing Envelope - Place student writing in this envelope. I will return writing to ELA teachers.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Reminders: Professional Library Submissions. “GOODY” Day tomorrow…& tacky Christmas Sweater day? Stock-Piled Staff Development Jan. 7, 2013 (Will send out an Agenda next week.) Thanks & have a great day! “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller