HOMEWORK: Class Happenings Formative vs. Summative Bloom and Fairy Tales Grading? DAILY OBJECTIVE: Students will describe the characteristics, skills, and dispositions of highly qualified teachers in suggesting strategies for handling classroom situations HOMEWORK: PERFECT CLASSROOM: MANAGEMENT PLAN

“BACKWARD PLANNING” Understand by Design Teaching & Learning is PURPOSEFUL Where am I going? How will I know when I get there? Stage 1: Identify desired results Stage 2: Determine acceptable evidence Stage 3: Plan learning experiences and instruction

#16 What are some types of assessments? What are some grading policies we LIKE? What are some grading policies we DISLIKE? WHY SHOULD teachers grade?

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: TYPES OF ASSESSMENTS FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: For learning. During learning. Monitor learning. Low stakes. Identify strengths/weakness Target mistakes and issues Help teachers address skill deficiencies Samples? SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: Of learning. Evaluate learning. End of unit. Standards based comparison, tied to objectives, higher stakes Samples?

Different Assessments for Different Purposes... Teachers assess their students for a variety of different purposes. And let’s face it: some assessments are more appropriate for some purposes than others!

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... What do you think?! Can you recognize any of the “guidelines” that your teachers follow? Any that they break?

Assessment for Learning... Reaching ALL students. Lesson Objective: The student will write in a variety of forms with an emphasis on persuasion. (SOL 11.7) What students will have to KNOW? What will they be able to DO?

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... 1. Grapes of Wrath and “Of Mice and Men” are novels written by: a) Steven Crane b) John Steinbeck c) James Baldwin d) Toni Morrison

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... A haiku must have five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line, and ___ in the third line. a) 3 b) ten c) 5 d) 2

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... 3. Classicism, not Romanticism, was most prevalent in a) the Midwest b) the Northeast c) the Southwest d) the state of Massachusetts

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a Civil War short story pertaining to 1. A Southern civilian being hanged by Northern troops 2. About two brothers who often go swimming 3. a minister who wears a mask to hide his face 4. a woman who gets news of her husband’s death, secretly rejoices about the report of the train wreck, and then has a heard attack when she sees him walk through the front door

Guidelines for Creating Effective Test Questions... 5. True or False: Beloved by all Americans, the recluse, Emily Dickinson, became famous posthumously for her domestic metaphors, slant rhyme, and Transcendental themes. 5. False or True: F. Scott Fitzgerald proves that women are dishonest by nature, obsessed with money, and disloyal in marriages through his characters Myrtle, Daisy, and Jordan.

FAIRY TALE ASSESSMENT Read Fairy Tale and create Bloom’s Questions Create a “quiz” for your classmates

ASSESSMENTS? GRADING? What is an assessment? Different types? What does it tell a teacher? Entire class fails? Should all be graded? Same assessment? REDO assessments? Grading policies: likes/dislikes What SHOULD teachers grade? ZEROES?

HOMEWORK: Class Happenings That Was Then Interviews Best Lesson EVER Share Formative vs. Summative Bloom and Fairy Tales Grading? DAILY OBJECTIVE: Students will describe the characteristics, skills, and dispositions of highly qualified teachers in suggesting strategies for handling classroom situations HOMEWORK: PERFECT CLASSROOM: MANAGEMENT PLAN