Assessment Tools Made Easy How to Incorporate the Latest Assessment Tools into Your Classroom Candice Cantrell Professor Fullerton College

Who was your favorite teacher and why?

Role of the Instructor  Motivate Students  Engage Students in Active Learning  Develop Critical Thinking Skills  Organize Daily Lesson Plans  Manage the Classroom Motivation is the art of getting our students to do what we want them to do because they want to do it.

How Do We Do It? By developing a toolbox of support materials!

What’s in Your Toolbox?  Textbooks – EBooks  Premium Videos  SAM Skill Based Training  SAM Concept Exams  SAM Skill Based Exams  SAM Projects  SAM Capstone Projects

The Most Important Tool You The Instructor! We Make a Difference

How Do We Make a Difference How Can We Use the Tools in Our Toolbox on a Daily Basis?

Unit Lesson Plan  Pretest SAM Concepts  Pretest SAM Skills This helps students understand what they do know and don’t know. It helps with the student who says “I already know it all”.

Daily Lesson Plan Start of Each Class  Hot Technology  Example: Create a Word Cloud  www. Wordle.net  SAM Quiz  Start Class with a Poll 

Daily Lesson Plan Demo of Sample Problem  Lecture Success System  Explain Project to be Completed 1.Observe / Watch PVE 2.Demo – Do It 3.Students Practice It 4.Write It Down

Daily Lesson Plan Homework  SAM Quiz for EOC Concepts  Assign a task based problem  Complete a Critical Thinking Problem

Homework Assignments Concept Review Skill Review Exercises Independent Challenges Visual Workshops

Homework Assignments Learn It Online Apply Your Knowledge Extend Your Knowledge Make It Right In the Lab Cases and Places

Summary Daily Homework Illustrated 1.Class Problem 2.Concept Review 3.Skill Review 4.SAM Project 1 (IC #1) Shelly Cashman 1.Class Problem 2.Learn It Online T/F and MC Questions 3.SAM Project 1 (In the Lab 1)

End Of Unit Assessment Test Review  SAM Skill Based Training – Scenario 1  Must complete at 70% passing  Textbook Capstone Project  Illustrated – Coolworks Media  Shelly Cashman – Spa or Bank

End Of Unit Assessment Test Review - Capstone Illustrated  SAM Capstone  Scenario 1  Scenario 2  Textbook Capstone  Scenario – CoolWorks  2 problems per app. Shelly Cashman  Sam Capstone  Scenario 1  Scenario 2  Textbook Capstone  Scenario 1 – Spa  Scenario 2 - Bank

End Of Unit Assessment Exam Day  Exams  SAM Multiple Choice Theory Exam  SAM Skill Based Exam – Scenario 2  SAM Capstone Project – Ill/NP/SC

I Make a Difference

Candy Cantrell Fullerton College